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Old 07-15-2014, 09:45 AM   #57
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Bottom Line

So the bottom line is that unless the parks block high bandwidth streaming people will use it and to hell with the neighbors.

I recall a DSL commercial where a group of neighbors are on someone's lawn carrying flaming torches and chanting 'bandwidth hog!', 'rip out his cable' etc.

I've taught the management at several parks how to block and de-prioritize media packets. I will continue doing so for as long as it takes.
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Muddypaws, why not post a how to document so others here can share with parks they frequent.
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It is hard to break people of streaming video when they came from their sticks and bricks house with high bandwidth. Ours is 75Mbs. Streaming video runs great. When we get to our winter home CG it is frustrating to just send and email, forget streaming unless its 3 a.m. I understand this and don't even try Netflix but everyone does not and complains about it being slow. I will give the CG credit for trying but when they are full the Comcast internet just can't cut it. They have gone through a lot of upgrades installing many access points but like the old saying you can't get 10lbs of you know what in a 5lb bag.

I'm not sure if AT&T has fiber out at the street but there for sure isn't any in the CG. No one can afford T3 and it will not run on twisted pair anyway.

For now we just tether our smart phones to our notebooks when the CGs WIFI is painfully slow. DW has managed to keep unlimited data so it doesn't hurt so much. This fall we are considering, with the CGs permission, seeing if AT&T can get our very own DSL to our MH. Then we can do whatever we want with it without bothering anyone else.
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Muddypaws, why not post a how to document so others here can share with parks they frequent.
It's slightly different for each brand of router and every location but I'll either create a document or find a good one and link to it.
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This will work on ALL routers

I found this simple instruction. It's targeted to blocking porn sites but it works for any website. Blocking videos is a single click.

How to Block Porn on a Computer Without Software | eHow

www.opendns.com

Opendns has been around a long time. One of the good things is that the 'administrator' does not have to be on-site after the local router is set up to use opendns as it's DNS server. The blocked message is configurable so indeed it could say something like 'Streaming videos in MY RV Park is not being a good neighbor.'

There are daily reports generated that show all network traffic and bandwidth consumed for each domain/site name hit. If you missed one it will show up in the reports and you can add it to the block list.

So that's step 1.

Step 2 is to find the QOS (Quality of Service) setting on the router(s) and disable it. QOS gives media packets top priority. Disable it and they default to the same priority as all other network traffic. On a marginal bandwidth connection this makes videos very difficult to watch. It does the same with VOIP (Skype, magic jack, Ooma etc.)

The hardest part of setting his up is getting administrator access to the router(s) to set the DNS address manually to what opendns uses.

There are many other ways to accomplish blocking. This is only one of them.
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I use opendns at home to keep the kiddies safer from unwanted content. There is a Television and Movies option in Opendns control panel.

I bought my Netgear R7000 becuase it had Opendns integration. This should be very easy for parks to setup as long as they have access to the main router that has the backbone uplink to the service provider.
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Rather than depend on RV Park campground WiFi we purchased a 3G4G device from FreedomPop.com. used it for over 8 months. One trip to TX from FL and back and we had service while even traveling on I-10. When we got home we contended with poor service via DSL modem from CenturyLink. We canceled the home phone line and canceled the DSL and saved $108.00 monthly fee. Freedpop cost me less that 50 bucks and does what we want and need. It seems they jump onto sprint and or Verizon, I don't know for sure. but the service is better than I had with Verizon or sprint. Good luck. ed
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Before deciding on Freedom pop. Com service, read this: http://techland.time.com/2013/06/05/...asnt-so-shady/
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