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Thanks for your reply again. I’ve had a look at the site’s recent newsletter and it talks of a leased fibre line being put in underground and once completed the Wi-Fi should be improved. I think each caravan is being supplied with a router as well. Sorry to be so bad on these basic technical bits. Perhaps they are using the wrong terms to describe the new system?

It’s possible that each caravan has it’s own router. In my opinion this would be the ideal situation, but this could create issues for you. From a site management perspective you should not be able to make changes to the router settings. If you are allowed to make changes, then management would need to interact with each router whenever the caravan occupants change. Otherwise, management would not be able to publish simple instructions because there may have been changes in the router settings. Management could deal with this but it would not be easy. I’m sure there is a cleaning crew that visits a caravan between tenants. It is unreasonable to expect the cleaning crew to be able to deal with router setup. The system could be setup to allow remote management, but this would be unusual for this sort of setup. Also, if users are allowed to tinker with the router, management would likely receive requests for support due to misconfiguration by users.

Overall, I think that your best approach would be to use a Travel Router. They are not very expensive and your setup can be tested locally -- before traveling to the caravan. At the caravan you would only need to give the Travel Router the caravan SSID details, but by then this would be a familiar process for you.

That sounds the best way forward.  The caravan belongs to me, so fortunately, not used by anyone else. Less fortunately, no cleaners either, but I can appreciate wardens don’t want routers fiddled with when all newly set up.  Will check out situation and hopefully travel router will be the solution. Many thanks for this.

You and I may be having a slight language issue. I think your “caravan” is what I would call a “camper” or “trailer”. This is not a major difference. Pick a Travel Router that offers a wired network input connection. When possible, use this wired connection rather than the site’s WiFi.

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