internet Access: 16 Campgrounds in 3 States

Interesting!

What is involved with using satellite for internet? I love satellite TV, including an FTA setup at home and I now have a newly acquired C-band dish to play with. Sat internet sounds interesting and could come in handy in some CGs.

We normally use DW's phone for a hotspot because she has a great Freedom Mobile (Canadian) data plan in the US and otherwise we use a Verizon pay as you go plan when needed.

myredracer wrote:
What is involved with using satellite for internet?

Start here.

You found campgrounds that actually let you stream with their wifi?

Ahh, a link to a blog. Warnings would be nice.

“You found campgrounds that actually let you stream with their wifi?“

You found campgrounds that actually have working WiFi?

Hi Techwriter,

Thanks for taking the time to post this information.

I'm able to stream over my cell phone even when throttled. Is there a latency issue with Hughes net that is preventing streaming?

I firmly believe that the companies should be legislated into having to share towers (fee is charged). That is what happened in Canada. It means that my Provincial Cell phone company can enter into bandwidth agreements, so coverage is not dependent on native towers.

The same thing happens when a USA company enters an agreement with Canadian based providers. So ATT and Verizon may have identical coverage in Canada, provided that the end user "signs up" for service.

To add to comparison, I used Sprint for last 2 years and I had really good service.
Drove via 9 southern states and the only time I had no service was AZ desert, where cellphone antennas are once in 30-40 miles item.
Couple of times it took long minutes to connect, what made me wonder how the system work as after it finally connect, I had pretty good speed.
Most of the time I could watch youtube movies.

pianotuna wrote:
Is there a latency issue with Hughes net that is preventing streaming?

No, the Gen 5 systems work fine with streaming. Current sat Internet does have long latencies (600 - 800 ms typical), but unless you're streaming service uses some sort of ACK-NAK protocol, then it's all good. Netflex, Apple TV, etc all work fine although YouTube video is usually the worst. However, I think that's a YouTube encoding issue rather than a HughesNet problem.

The only problems I've encountered with sat service latency is VOIP and uploading files using WordPress.

To easy to use your phone as a hotspot these days.

TechWriter wrote:

pianotuna wrote:
Is there a latency issue with Hughes net that is preventing streaming?

No, the Gen 5 systems work fine with streaming. Current sat Internet does have long latencies (600 - 800 ms typical), but unless you're streaming service uses some sort of ACK-NAK protocol, then it's all good. Netflex, Apple TV, etc all work fine although YouTube video is usually the worst. However, I think that's a YouTube encoding issue rather than a HughesNet problem.

The only problems I've encountered with sat service latency is VOIP and uploading files us/ing WordPress.

Probably not a big issue here but live action gaming is near useless on a satellite connection.

To comment on an earlier post: while there are plenty of poorly performing WiFi systems out there I have managed to stay a number of places with solid WiFi service and allowed streaming.