Any software devs, working from their RV?

paries wrote:
Thank you All.

This is some great info.

dedmiston , what do you use for a dataplan?

I forget the brand/model of the device. It's whatever was on sale at the time from AT&T. I bought it years ago when our kid was finishing up clinical studies and was doing an internship at a remote mental hospital (super creepy). A new facility had been built, but they still housed the students in the old abandoned hospital building (picture lots of big keys and heavy doors like a prison). There was no wifi there, so we bought the hotspot and paid for the plan. Years later after graduation, I asked for the device back since it wasn't being used anymore.

I think we pay $30/month for the all-you-can-eat-but-we're-gonna-throttle-you plan. It feels expensive, but I think we foolishly pay that much for my wife's iPad data plan too, so who am I to judge?

Our longest stint on the road was probably 10-12 weeks and we drained every single packet of data we could out of that thing, and I never could detect any throttling. I think they only throttle your speed if you're in a heavily impacted area and the cell tower is saturated. Presumably that's when they put you at the lowest priority in the queue.

If I thought I'd hit the cap and the speed was being throttled, I was ready to switch over to tethering from my phone, but that has never happened. I never bothered to run a speed check on the hotspot vs. the iPhone, but it always just feels faster than tethering. I have a hunch that the performance I see from the hotspot was just the hotspot's better transmit capabilities. I have to be pretty close to my phone to tether, but I just keep the hotspot in a tall cupboard in the fiver and the signal is as good in the garage of our toy hauler as it is in the front sleeper (or even outside in camp).

It's really been ideal for me for remote work. We've been able to see a lot of the country without me having to take off any time. I don't expect to have to go back to the office any time soon, because our open floor plan is a germ infested cesspool where one person with the sniffles will wipe us all out. Who knew that our old cubicle farms were so much healthier?

This thing has been a lifesaver for me though. It sure beats sitting at home.