Hypothetical ..... if money were no object...
...and you wanted RV high speed internet connectivity, all the bells and whistles, 3 users simultaneously, and not have to do a lot of diddlin' every time you wanted to set-up / take down / re-start.....
Forum Discussion
cdlaine wrote:
Wow Joel... I somehow thought it was a lot more complicated
(and expensive) then that.... so that is all those million
dollar Prevosts that I see the Country music stars trick out
utilize ? Guess I was faked out by all the bling. Your set up
definateley sounds doable for our clan.
I offered up the option to the family of satellite dish or high speed
internet... hands down the internet trumped. We are all currently
with ATT so I will have to see what kind of deal Verizon can cut.
Is security an issue ??? I see all these parabolic gizmos/signal
amplifiers that campers use to "borrow" internet connectivity. My
bride is very (?rightly so) paranoid about that issue...me not so much.
I thought a firewall would be in place ?
Good stuff.... after following the forum conversations on related
topics I misunderstood and thought the costs were prohibitive.
Charles
Charles:
We have both DirecTV and the internet connection I described. We love to stream video from Netflix and Amazon, but not everything we want to watch can be streamed. Furthermore, if I want to stream Homeland or Boardwalk Empire on I have to have a subscription to Showtime or HBO anyway.
If you are doing any serious RVing I think you will find that Verizon's data coverage is significantly broader than AT&T's. But, as some have already noted, there are places that ATT is present and VZW is not. Be careful, however, not to consider the voice coverage for a network; that is not always the same as the data coverage map.
As for someone stealing your service, those discussions are almost exclusively related to stealing wifi service from neighboring hotsposts, not stealing someone's cellular signal. The cellular system has a sophisticated encrypted transmission system and I'm not worrying about someone intercepting it. Inside your RV you will have a wifi network but almost all routers use WPA2 encryption and that's pretty robust.
Just be careful to avoid any devices that advertise that they use "easy to setup" WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) since that is a vulnerable system that was exposed as such several years ago but which continues to be used because it is advertised as being easy to use.
If you have other questions, feel free to post them or to PM me.
Joel
