Current Wifi Setup

Wifi Dashboard: https://cloudtrax.com/dashboard.php
(please note that the network name is "santafeskies").
Enter the network name and click "View Status".

Notes about Wifi

March 21, 2011. The Wifi towers at the flagpole and Zinnia 2 are now connected via DSL instead of wireless relay. All units have been remounted and are operational.

March 11, 2011. We are in the process of remounting the wifi equipment after the upgrades needed for the solar system. We hope to have all towers reconnected and operational by April 1, 2011.

November 18, 2010. We just got an unpleasant letter from comcast notifying us that one of our patrons (or neighbors) has used our wifi to illegally download movies. As such we have had to update our firewall settings to prevent this activity. The current allowed port list is available here and is also posted in the office.

November 12, 2010. Recently each access point was given a unique network name based on location. This was intended to help customers locate the nearest wireless tower to their particular site. It does help our staff if customers can give us details about what worked and what did not when they are having the problem and not many days later. It is common in the diagnostic process for many changes to be made in a matter of minutes by our technician which may cause problems for a customer. It is hard to track down which problem was the cause when there is feedback 5 days later.

On a different note, we have also recently obtained another internet connection, this will provide failover if one connection goes down as well as load balancing under normal day to day use.

• Tested connection Rates: 13 Mbps / Upload Rate: 3 Mbps
• 1 access points connected via ethernet
• 8 access points connected via dsl
• 9 access points connected via wireless relay

Best sites for wifi

• Daylily 5&6
• Aster 4&5
• Iris 4&5
• Marigold 1
• Sunflower 1
• Zinnia 1&2
• Wildflower 3&4
• Yucca 30,31, &D-H

The internet connection to the rv park office supplies the wifi, the office itself, and the dsl customers. There are two connections to internet. One Comcast Connection and one Qwest connection. I have two because if one fails, the other can take over, when they are both operating, they share the traffic. I use one router for the whole system, it is a 2.0Ghz AMD computer that is running a free software called pfsense. The connection between the internet connection and the wifi towers is wire, that wire may be ethernet or it may be dsl. Any tower that does not have a wired connection is wireless to a unit that does. More smaller cheaper towers have been better than bigger more powerful towers that did not make everyone happy.

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