Can I get my tenants free Internet?

[farmerjohn1324]

I manage an RV park. I am trying to set my tenants up with Internet access. The cable Internet provider said it would cost $30/unit to get them each their own service and I don't want to do this.

I want to know if I can get Internet for one of the units and have a wireless that will reach the rest of them and be of adequate speed to support up to 8 computers at once.

What speed would I need for this? And is there a wireless router that would reach far enough?

The park is about 152' x 169', or about 0.58 acres

 

[beers]

Based on some of your other replies, hire a consultant.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Yeah, I'd recommend a consultant that works with Ubiquiti equipment. They should be able to get some good wifi that can cover the entire area well.

 

[AdmnPower]

I've done a setup very similar to what you're talking about at an RV park. I used Ubiquiti equipment, Omni directional antenna's for broadcast points and then at the far boundaries we did a couple of directional antennas for people who were having a little bit of trouble connecting. I don't think you'd be able to get what you want with off the shelf equipment though.

 

[Geoff]

I'm not sure why you needed a separate thread for this, but it does look more manageable than what you were describing earlier. While there's no way you could get reliable service inside all of these trailers and office with one AP, at a quick glance it looks like you could manage to get by with 4-5 APs spread out over the park. The biggest problem would be mounting the APs near the trailers, and wiring to them.

I understand you want the cheapest solution, which you may think is as easy as going to Best Buy and getting some "long range" router, putting that in the office and having all your tenants get internet access, but that's not going to work. If you do this, you'll end up with them calling you for poor internet service quite often. From the layout of the trailers, most are facing the office, meaning it could work near the window of the front of the trailer, but as you go inside the trailer where there's walls, furniture, etc., it's going to cut that signal down so much it will be unusable.

To put it into perspective, if you have an AP 10 feet from a client but there's an exterior wall like concrete and brick, the signal is barely usable as it is. Obstructions really kill high frequency RF.