Hey you two. You remind me a lot of early TechTV. I used to just flip on TechTV back in the day just to watch people talk about tech. Great to geek out with you folks for a bit. Keep up the great work! Happy trails!
Yes, your system is a bit much for my needs but I am so glad to have watched, because of the accessories that help run your systems. Great video, very informative.
I'd love if you all covered more international travel for boaters like me. If you could do a video on international data plans that are actually good, that's an underexplored part of the Internet. I have a dumbed down article coming out in April's Latitude 38, but videos are better fodder for such things!
We actually have a full collection of international resources available to our members at: www.rvmobileinternet.com/international-resources/ Including a public video with a high level overview - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Arp9CCSP6AU.html. We are however focused on the US based nomad and options for them. That keeps us busy enough as is.
FYI with some DIY you can put Dishy directly onto a DC connector. Seeing posts online that say if you drop down the voltage to ~30-35V you can drop the usage to ~30 watts vs ~100.
Would an omni directional antenna/modem like your dome improve your range at all over like a hotspot (provided the modems are the same) I'm considering hard mounting a low profile antenna on top of the camper after the x65 modems are available to replace the hotspot hanging in the window. (But don't want to deal with yagis or high clearance issues)
The pepLink 5g router is too expensive for me. I just want to watch Netflix a few hours every night when RVing a few days once a month. I don't want to tie up my T-Moibile iPhone "hotspot". If a leave to walk to the rv store the connection drops while my wife is watch a movie. I'm looking for a cheap 5g cellular router. Any recommendations?
You'll want to consider either routers or hotspots, here's our starting place for research: www.rvmobileinternet.com/cellular-devices. If you're one of our members, you can access our reviews and guidance in our forums.
What frosts my butt is how ATT & Verizon calculate data usage. With either we get a total of over 1TB per month, however with Starlink we only get a total of 200GB pre month?@#?! It's like buying a used car and finding out the dealer rolled the odometer back before you got it. Padding usage the cellular providers get to charge way more than you actually use. Anyone else notice this???
Starlink's residential service will be capped at 1TB of priority data starting next month before it is 'best effort'. RV/Roam service is always best effort. All of it is unlimited.
