Satellite Internet Service for Data
Has anyone had a successful experience with satellite internet data reception (not satellite TV) while travelling in their RV? Neither HughesNet or Winegard currently offer an internet satellite anten...
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You can go with an iDirect solution. I have a XF3 ($20k for equipment) and gives me coverage over north america. You can go with a smaller idirect solution (U.S. only) for about 6k. As for providers, there are dozens of companies that support iDrect. Figure about $400/month for 512-1024kbps down and 128-256 up. The internet quality is excellent. The only issue (and this is true with all satellite internet) is the latency is very high. So expect response times to be about 1sec (600ms actual latency) but the throughput is very nice. It is much better than campground wifi.
You can pretty much get good cell service anywhere today, but good data service is still hard, especially in Canada (which is where the xf3 really helps me).
Obviously if I am at an RV park with great wifi then I turn the dish off. I use it about half of the time when travelin. It is easy to justify because the young kids burn up my data plan using the cell phone (they consume maybe 100gb in a month and so $500 cell phone data bills are now $400 satellite bills).
We travel about 6-8 weeks out of a year in the coach.
You can pretty much get good cell service anywhere today, but good data service is still hard, especially in Canada (which is where the xf3 really helps me).
Obviously if I am at an RV park with great wifi then I turn the dish off. I use it about half of the time when travelin. It is easy to justify because the young kids burn up my data plan using the cell phone (they consume maybe 100gb in a month and so $500 cell phone data bills are now $400 satellite bills).
We travel about 6-8 weeks out of a year in the coach.
