As a retired cellular engineer for a large aircraft company I have recently found that the biggest bang for your buck to have internet service is using either Verizon or T-Mobile Home wifi internet service for $25-$50 per month with no contract. There's no hardware to buy, only 1 minute initial setup and then at each RV site you park at you just plug in the power and the Internet service is up and running in under 1 minute. The wifi gateway box is small and has several built in antennas and has a better signal than your cell phone. I stream all my tv services without any problems. Like Todd say's if you really get out in the middle of no where then a repeater antenna on the roof will help grab that weak signal. Your limitation is only limited by your hardware.
We have been using Starlink for the last year and it has been fantastic. We have been in the middle of the desert in Death Valley, in the mountains of glacier national park and have had at least 75gb download speeds. It can get a little slower on busier evenings due to the throttling of the “roaming” plan. But all in all, we love it. We have been full timing for a while now and it has been the best experience. As long as you have a clear view of the sky.
Our experience with 5+ years of full time RVing has been that only once in all these years has a campground WiFi service had enough bandwidth to stream videos during peak evening hours. The WiFi signal might be strong but with a dozen people also trying to stream videos it just isn't going to happen. So a WiFi booster or outside antenna isn't going to help. Certainly not worth the hundreds of dollars to upgrade. Same for cellphone hotspot service. You can get a cellphone booster with outside antenna for hundreds of dollars but if the cellphone signal is zero you get zero times three equals zero. Starlink has been great for us but sometimes there's just too many trees so that'll be a zero then too. Best to just have redundancy including DVDs.
My RV came with a Winegard DirectV dish that could be raised and pointed. I was never going to use it. I got a directional cell booster and installed the antenna on the dish mount after removing the dish. Now I can raise it and point it in the direction of the nearest tower. Makes a big difference on reception in the RV.
Department of Redundancy Department representative here. We use multiple hotspots from two different carriers as well as a Winegard GW-1000 with a SIM card from a Samsung Galaxy on AT&T and run an almost fully functional Apple HomeKit setup (AppleTV 4K, 5 HomePods, 2 iPads, 2 MacBooks, 2 iPhones, 2 Apple Watches, outdoor power outlet, and 2 security cameras) plus an Xbox Series S for about $200.00 a month.
Todd, you said repeaters for Wifi in the RV park there at the NRVTA school... Please tell me that they are not actual wifi repeaters? The way most WiFi repeaters work you end up cutting the overall WiFi bandwidth in half, if not worst. No one ever should use them, unless that is your only option because of cost or something. The proper way to provide coverage is to install multiple access--points to extend coverage or use mesh style APs as they use a dedicated radio for the backhaul.
We bought our Starlink account cell service is so unreliable across the west. Recently was at Glacier in the trees and we had enough Starlink to stream and use our laptop. It did buffer but we were in the trees so it was amazing it even worked.
I know Wi-Fi internet social service sucks when you're underneath the trees but that to me is kind of the point of going camping is to be in the woods and the trees I tell my boyfriend we didn't go camping to sit inside the camper, must get out and enjoy our surroundings and explore hike walk whatever may be swim if you're near river lake or the beach. We also love doing puzzles if it's a rainy day or playing games it's another way to enjoy your camping time if you can't get outdoors.
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As a retired cellular engineer for a large aircraft company I have recently found that the biggest bang for your buck to have internet service is using either Verizon or T-Mobile Home wifi internet service for $25-$50 per month with no contract. There's no hardware to buy, only 1 minute initial setup and then at each RV site you park at you just plug in the power and the Internet service is up and running in under 1 minute. The wifi gateway box is small and has several built in antennas and has a better signal than your cell phone. I stream all my tv services without any problems. Like Todd say's if you really get out in the middle of no where then a repeater antenna on the roof will help grab that weak signal. Your limitation is only limited by your hardware.
We have been using Starlink for the last year and it has been fantastic.
We have been in the middle of the desert in Death Valley, in the mountains of glacier national park and have had at least 75gb download speeds.
It can get a little slower on busier evenings due to the throttling of the “roaming” plan. But all in all, we love it. We have been full timing for a while now and it has been the best experience. As long as you have a clear view of the sky.
Our experience with 5+ years of full time RVing has been that only once in all these years has a campground WiFi service had enough bandwidth to stream videos during peak evening hours. The WiFi signal might be strong but with a dozen people also trying to stream videos it just isn't going to happen. So a WiFi booster or outside antenna isn't going to help. Certainly not worth the hundreds of dollars to upgrade. Same for cellphone hotspot service. You can get a cellphone booster with outside antenna for hundreds of dollars but if the cellphone signal is zero you get zero times three equals zero. Starlink has been great for us but sometimes there's just too many trees so that'll be a zero then too. Best to just have redundancy including DVDs.
My RV came with a Winegard DirectV dish that could be raised and pointed. I was never going to use it. I got a directional cell booster and installed the antenna on the dish mount after removing the dish. Now I can raise it and point it in the direction of the nearest tower. Makes a big difference on reception in the RV.
Department of Redundancy Department representative here. We use multiple hotspots from two different carriers as well as a Winegard GW-1000 with a SIM card from a Samsung Galaxy on AT&T and run an almost fully functional Apple HomeKit setup (AppleTV 4K, 5 HomePods, 2 iPads, 2 MacBooks, 2 iPhones, 2 Apple Watches, outdoor power outlet, and 2 security cameras) plus an Xbox Series S for about $200.00 a month.
Todd, you said repeaters for Wifi in the RV park there at the NRVTA school... Please tell me that they are not actual wifi repeaters? The way most WiFi repeaters work you end up cutting the overall WiFi bandwidth in half, if not worst. No one ever should use them, unless that is your only option because of cost or something. The proper way to provide coverage is to install multiple access--points to extend coverage or use mesh style APs as they use a dedicated radio for the backhaul.
So I don’t know the term but access point bridges for internet.
We bought our Starlink account cell service is so unreliable across the west. Recently was at Glacier in the trees and we had enough Starlink to stream and use our laptop. It did buffer but we were in the trees so it was amazing it even worked.
The new T-Mobile home internet box has been awesome for us on the road.
We use AT&T wifi mobile spot router when we use our camper. It get us internet and better cellular service as well.
If you ran wires in your beard to use as an antennae would your signals be stronger and would the beard glow from electron flow?
Is the beard antenna MIMO and how are you connecting to the hotspot/router?
Like connecting to fiber
You are awesome
👍👍👍👍👍
For gaming, is starlink the absolute best for wifi?
I use a sim card from verizon with my gateway and winegard
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Starlink is great you just have to have no tree obstructions
I know Wi-Fi internet social service sucks when you're underneath the trees but that to me is kind of the point of going camping is to be in the woods and the trees I tell my boyfriend we didn't go camping to sit inside the camper, must get out and enjoy our surroundings and explore hike walk whatever may be swim if you're near river lake or the beach. We also love doing puzzles if it's a rainy day or playing games it's another way to enjoy your camping time if you can't get outdoors.
Star Link is great for people that have money to burn.
Why are fuse n breaker boxes down on the floor? Why not eye level instead of standing on ur head
To keep all the wires in the floor shorter.
My comment got deleted for saying thankyou and that I would check out the site you suggested? Nice... Welp, gg.