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pnichols
Oct 20, 2019Explorer II
way2roll wrote:
I work remote and where we lived previously we did not have cable internet and the latency with Satellite was awful. We had a VZ jetpack that not only provided enough to work remote, we used it as our sole internet. I work for a large bank and the encrypted VPN didn't seem to be bothered with the speeds I was getting. Not sure why you need such speeds but even while cable may advertise them, you'll never get it - even hardwired. What speeds are you getting now and how?
Huuuhhh?
My good old Comcast rural cable here at home is 80-90 mbps down and 5-6 mbps up - hour after hour and day after day. The data limit is 1 terabyte (1000 GB) per month - with no throttling up to that point. I measure those speeds with unbiased measurement software here at home all the time .... at least once per day at various times. I stream 4K UHD HDR video (often while two others are streaming video at the same time) often for hours here at home ... all with no buffering and superfast menu responses.
The OP "should" be able to get what he needs from cell towers while camped - but it will cost. The doggone trottling is the main irritant - and is a copout con job by the Internet providers, IMHO.
Also 5G will not be an eventual solution, as it's higher frequency carrier band(s) will travel even less far than 4G. 5G will not be a good rural access answer for data intensive RV'ers.
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