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Originally Posted by Flint
The Kingconnect website was helpful. The router booster I got enhances the campground WiFi. It is also supposed to make your connection secure. It all depends on how much you want to spend.
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Does it? I think it's just a router with some external antennas.
These antenna's may be better than the antenna in your phone or Mifi but they don't really "boost" anything.
What that King Router is doing is called - WiFi As WAN.
At home when you connect a router to your internet modem you are using an Ethernet wire to connect to a Wide Area Network or WAN. The then "router"
routes this to all your other devices. So, multiple things - phones, computers, TVs, etc can all connect at the same time to the WAN.
The King Router works exactly the same way only it doesn't have an Ethernet cable to connect it to the WAN (wide area network again). It uses WiFi to connect to the WAN. Hence the term: WiFi As WAN.
The campground WiFi is the WAN and your router is picking that up and, again,
routing it to all of your devices inside your RV. So, now you don't need to connect your phone, your tablet, your computer, your TV to the campground WiFi you just connect it to your router.
This is an important function and is not to be minimized - but there is no "boosting" going on there.
Even if you add one of the two King external antennas you are not boosting you are just doing a better job of reaching the WiFi signals that are available by using a larger or taller antenna.
This is true of all RV WiFi routers - they don't boost they just
route the campground's wifi signal to your devices AND those with outside antennas do a better job, usually, of picking up the existing signals.
One more thing... none of this will help you if the campground's internet is bad, overused, under distributed or any other way limited. Campgrunds wid bad internet access will still be bad internet in your RV,
The King WiFi system is not a bad deal. $99 for a WiFi as WAN RV router is pretty good. Just don't think of it as a "booster."
If you use your Phone or a MiFI/Jetpack as your Internet then that device becomes the WAN and you connect the King router to the WAN provided by those devices to
route to all of your phones, tablets, computers and such inside the RV.
PS. Your RV Router, no matter the brand, King or Wifi Ranger, etc, helps with security because all of your connected devices go through this one router which is set up with your SSID and your Password.