Internet Conectivity

[wandermore]

...or just start with the simplest step of climbing on your roof with an extendable pole and your phone taped to the top to see what happens if you aren't ready to buy or build anything to experiment yet. It sounds like you may have dense tree cover around your lake house like we do. If it is dense enough, starlink is going to have issues there too.

[Tallybird]

Thanks Jim. I do not use a router. It’s just the phone. I don’t have a tree issue per se, just line of site and lack of antenna coverage in general.

[kgfcen2uunp1giox]

Pete, sounds like you have a good path forward. I love my Starlink. I have all Victron equipment so i can see everything going on with my bus 24-7. Here are some random screenshots over the past few months of my speed out here on the west coast. Very impressive product, I am sold on it.

[Tallybird]

Originally Posted by kgfcen2uunp1giox

Pete, sounds like you have a good path forward. I love my Starlink. I have all Victron equipment so i can see everything going on with my bus 24-7. Here are some random screenshots over the past few months of my speed out here on the west coast. Very impressive product, I am sold on it.

Thank you Mike for the speed test shots and the help. Yeah, we have a clear shot at all the birds here, clear view. The other home as well. The dish service has actually been awesome with only signal loss during severe storms. Light / medium rain no issues. So yeah after 30 plus years of high orbit satellite I guess I’m biased a bit and excited to try low orbit satellites. ;-) also my needs are low at best. Streaming low pixel and internet access for web surfing and the forum. iTunes is my other buddy when I need
To fix something there is always tons of people sharing their process on just about anything mechanical.
I checked with the powers that be. I’m not the navigator on the bus, just the lowly pilot. We decided on 1 setup for now. She’s already surfing Black Friday Starlink sales. She also attended Jim’s seminar so we’ll use the dual phone setup since we already have a router in the bus. Bring the Starlink along for the camping sites. Honestly we used 27 north to go to wog and the amount of no service spots were way more than either of us anticipated. If that’s fails, well we’ll buy another setup and do the pause thing and mount one permanently on the bus. A pain but better than having an unhappy navigator!!!! For 30plus years I lived by one of the golden rules, happy wife, happy life! :-) I’m also hoping when the Amazon joint venture comes online next year, it will drive Starlink to be more competitive price wise. Well I can at least dream!

[Tallybird]

I ran across this about 5 minutes ago while surfing the news feed. Just wanted everyone to be aware. I mentioned in this thread earlier that a “ backup connectivity platform “ to cellular would be advisable, especially during these trying times worldwide. Me, I’m going to Starlink in addition to cellular. There is cable, high orbit satellites, low orbit satellite satellites as Amazon brings their Starlink competitor network online shortly, fiber optic, etc. all for your consideration.

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/11/23/poli...ecs/index.html

[badandy]

I'm still rocking the AT&T Mobley sim card in a Pepwave dual SIM modem and an external antenna on the roof. It's still $23/month, too. One of these days I'll get a Starlink, but not today

[Tallybird]

Originally Posted by badandy

I'm still rocking the AT&T Mobley sim card in a Pepwave dual SIM modem and an external antenna on the roof. It's still $23/month, too. One of these days I'll get a Starlink, but not today

Can you please expand on this solution. I have a 4g pepwave router with remote antenna I want to bring online in the bus. I don’t use much bandwidth and I LIKE 23 per month. Exactly the right price point! Did you get the sim directly from Att or Mobley? Thanks

Andy, never mind please disregard. I read about the plan and it is no longer offered. So all I can say is you lucky dog!!!!!! :-) don’t give that plan up!!!!

[badandy]

I bought the Mobley device, which came with the SIM card, from ATT as part of their car-connected plan they had for a while back. Probably nothing like it now... I'm just showing off...