Travel Trailer Wireless router + antenna

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monsterfarm

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I am going to be purchasing a 20 foot travel trailer to tow behind and SUV and tour through the US and Canada, probably stopping at trailer parks for periods of 2 or 3 days at a time, and I'm looking to outfit the trailer with a wireless router and am looking for advise as to how to maximize my chances of a solid wifi connection at trailer parks.

I'm looking for recommendations and advice on whether or not an omni-directional antenna mounted on top of the trailer would be best... (considering I may not know exactly what direction the parks wifi-signal will be coming from) or a directional antenna would be best, or if it would be possible to use both.

Also looking for recomendations on the best router available for that kind of application, mounted inside the trailer, but with antenna's mounted on top.

I also want to be able to create my own network via the router to protect work and not be on the same network as everyone else in the trailer park, so I guess I need to repeat the trailer-park's network for my own private use.

Will be working from laptops (macbook pros).

any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
 
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You want a directional antenna. It will be easy to figure out where the signal is coming from many of the devices have signal strength meters on them.. What you actually want is not just a antenna you want a outdoor bridge. Ubiquiti and engenous are 2 of the more common vendors. There are many models depending on how large a device you are willing to mount as well as different frequencies. You likely want something that runs on the 2.4 band. The new 802.11ac ones are very fancy and cheap but they only run on the 5g band. They are cheap enough I suppose you could one for each band.

Inside you can use any inexpensive router. You would just plug the outdoor bridge into the wan port
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bill001g

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You want a directional antenna. It will be easy to figure out where the signal is coming from many of the devices have signal strength meters on them.. What you actually want is not just a antenna you want a outdoor bridge. Ubiquiti and engenous are 2 of the more common vendors. There are many models depending on how large a device you are willing to mount as well as different frequencies. You likely want something that runs on the 2.4 band. The new 802.11ac ones are very fancy and cheap but they only run on the 5g band. They are cheap enough I suppose you could one for each band.

Inside you can use any inexpensive router. You would just plug the outdoor bridge into the wan port
 
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Pooneil

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Park wifi is notoriously spotty. It depends on the ISP connection, the parks equipment, the number of users and the placement of the site. If internet is important, consider buying a router that can accept a LTE usb adapter to use as a fallback.
 
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