What do you use for your Internet connection?

[DavidL]

Interested in how you connect to rest of world while you are using your RV. Or are you "Air Gapped" (not connected at all)?
Choose as many connections that you regularly use.

 

[Joe Dutchstar]

This year we are using a Peplink ProMax BR1. At a future date we may move to the 5G variant of this unit.
Literally plug and play. No extra antenna, or anything else.
Works for us. Tucked into an upper cabinet that had 120v power outlets. Done.
Lives here in lower windowed cabinet

Upper cabinet has conduits to roof for future Starlink cable.

 

[DavidL]

Joe, are you using the Pepwave for Cellular? Or Wifi? Or both? You can edit your survey responses.

 

[Joe Dutchstar]

We use it as a cellular hot spot with it’s own sim currently. Once we get the sat dish we’ll use it for sat with cell sim as backup.

 

[Coddiwomple]

Peplink Max Transit Duo Pro
Parsec Husky Pro 7 antenna

 

[flyboy013]

I use a Peplink Max BR1. I have Starlink plugged into WAN port and use WiFi as WAN for picking up campground (or home) WiFi. I also have a SIM. My connections are prioritized as listed above, but while parked for the winter months, I suspend Starlink and cellular service as I have a 200Mbps cable connection (although limited two about 80 Mbps due to WiFi as WAN throughout due to it being a double WiFi hop).

 

[DavidL]

Maybe it was confusing in the survey: so far no one has selected either DirecTV, or Cable or Dish Satellite. No one using any of these three? Now, I don't use any of them either....just checking.
I was going to add "Watch movies via ripped DVDs" and "Watch DVDs" and "Stream TV" but not enough survey slots...I guess that's a different poll

 

[flyboy013]

The response also need to be allow for prioritization too. I think just about everyone will connect to campground WiFi if that's the only service available and/or there is some really good service. So it being the most popular response may give you the false impression that that's what must folks use/prefer.

 

[Sand-dog]

We use Spectrum Cable for Wi-Fi/TV, when in our desert winter location. no dish or direct I guess it’s just another redundant cable service..

 

[DavidL]

The response also need to be allow for prioritization too. I think just about everyone will connect to campground WiFi if that's the only service available and/or there is some really good service. So it being the most popular response may give you the false impression that that's what must folks use/prefer.

yes, agreed. Wish the polling software allowed for that ranking. Would be interesting.

 

[Dan_Frisbie]

Separate mobile hotspot. It costs $20 per month and I can work, study, and stream. Never had an issue.

 

[J&JD]

Maybe it was confusing in the survey: so far no one has selected either DirecTV, or Cable or Dish Satellite. No one using any of these three? Now, I don't use any of them either....just checking.
I was going to add "Watch movies via ripped DVDs" and "Watch DVDs" and "Stream TV" but not enough survey slots...I guess that's a different poll

We still have Direct Tv, and are considering other choices. We are not full timers, enjoy travel in the fall, but are huge 49er fans. Now Direct Tv has lost the Nfl ticket! That has us considering other choices. Actually, we have a good on air antenna, and enjoy watching local news in various states. It is interesting to see how the news feed is presented in different parts of our country. Of course, with Direct Tv, we still have stuff to watch., There is often cable also in rv parks, and is often very average,, but we, for now, sort of enjoy being semi disconnected. Our kids are disconcerted when we are out of touch for a bit, and not streaming the latest! Lol. Judy D

 

[Kevin D Pem]

Media? At this time I can receive quality service using any cell service, so I use T Mobile prepaid. When it gets sketchy, it's Starlink. I don't watch Tell-Lie-Vision, or predictive programming tools, so no such box or panel is setup in my rig. That stuff hit a trash bin near me about 4 years ago, and I haven't looked back!!!

 

[No Plan]

My primary Internet connection is Starlink In Motion using a Cradlepoint R1900 5G WiFi router. I also have an AT&T SIM in the Cradlepoint router with an AT&T data connect plan as my fallback Internet connection should Starlink go down. I can also hot spot, or use unlimited data for Internet, from/on my iPhone. I also have Dish Satellite TV.

I think I have all my bases covered...

 

[Trav_lr]

Visible Plus for $35/month unlimited, unthrottled data on an iphone connected to a GL.iNet travel router with a few lines of extra code written into the firmware and modified firewall rules. So far, it's preformed every bit as good as a friends starlink, in fact, he's now questioning why he's spending so much for internet after we did a side by side comparison. My last billing cycle, we used almost 900GB of data streaming video on TV, using two laptops for whatever and an ipad.