Day 75-77 Consulting in the Grand Tetons

Could be worse, huh? Working on a WiFi project at the base of the glacier capped Grand Teton Mountains. Again, wow is all I can think of to describe this National Park that lies at the south end of Yellowstone. If you have a Big Rig and want to stay near the park, the Grand Teton RV Resort is just about the only game in town for many, many Wyoming miles. This resort has been here a while and has undergone many years of evolution but has now made the decision to modernize and increase their capabilities and capacity. Upgrading the WiFi was a part of that process and Jim Anderson, a consultant hired to lead the modernization, and a long time customer of mine called me in to assist. We chose the new Ubiquity M2 Rocket sector antennas and radios for the RF and MikroTik of course for the routing. The RouterBoard 493 provided a robust and full featured platform. We built a simple splash page which we decided we could enhance later and used HotSpot and User Manager to control access and enable the owners to use a web GUI to change the HotSpot password. In addition, with only a T1 of bandwidth for 200+ sites, we utilized careful per user rate queues to ensure everyone was able to check their email. In the next few days we will add some other limitations to prevent streaming movies, like limiting transfer bytes over time. Might tick some folks off but it will be good for everyone as a whole. We departed Moran early this morning ) Friday July 16 and headed through Cody, Wy into Buffalo, Wy en route to Mount Rushmore, another entry on my bucket list. CHECK!