I am setting up my mbcruiser as my mobile office. I need very frequent internet access with decent speed. Any body has an experince with this kind of set up and what company and cost am I looking at? What type of satelite is the best and I heard soon there will be a box type satelite receiver that needs no constant alignment... Any input will be greatly appreciated....
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2005 Jayco 29GS
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Socal, I have a Hughes tripod system and have had for 3-4 years now. Speeds vary with useage, location and other things, but average out to be satisfactory to my basic subscription ($59.99 a month). For more bucks, you get more bandwidth. Auto aiming and storing antennas are avialable for more but would occupy the most of your rig's roof and necessitate always parking in the clear.
At any price, you will contend with FAP, Fair Access Protocol. That is the attempt to keep things sort of balanced. Use a lot of space uploading and downloading a lot of stuff and you'll be slowed down for a suitable amount of time to make you not want to do that again.
My system includes a 0.75 meter dish, feed horn with 1 watt transmitter (there is a 2 watt and a bigger dish that will give more reliability in stormy weather, etc. There is a modem that occupies a space of about 12 by 12 by 1 inches and has five cheery blue diode lights to advertise its status. Hook them together with dual RG-6 cable of up to 100 feet or so (dependent on siting to miss trees, etc.) and use the WiFi if you want, so two computers could be on line at the same time.
Siting gets easier. It takes me no more, generally, than 15 minutes to set up anywhere and less to tear down, toss the hardware in the trailer and boogie on.
Siting consists of checking lat. and long. and elevation with a software program, GPS (I use Co-Pilot's software for that) and aim, with the help of a device called E Z Aim or other that translates it all to degrees right and left and up and down. And skew, which is a tilt to optimize transmit and receive signals. Send "hello" to the Sat Folks and you're soon in business.
Admittedly not with the ease of ADSL line to your rig, but reliable and an answer for mobility. See www.datastormusers.com and other forums for more.
Oh, yes; it works just fine off my little Honda generator, when necesswry.
VernM
GMC Conversion van/Wells Cargo MiniWagon trailer
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Siting consists of checking lat. and long. and elevation with a software program, GPS (I use Co-Pilot's software for that) and aim, with the help of a device called E Z Aim or other that translates it all to degrees right and left and up and down. And skew, which is a tilt to optimize transmit and receive signals. Send "hello" to the Sat Folks and you're soon in business.
Where did you get the software that checks the lat and elevation?
VernM, GOOD description. It also works with my 1000 watt inverter. I have the pro plan which allows for 375 Megabytes download daily. When "fapped" download speed drops roughly to dial-up.
If Internet is needed virtually anywhere, Satellite is the only way.
We would love to do this too, but need fairly higher upload speeds so my sweetie (a programmer) can upload large files fairly quickly. What do you guys pay for your business class satellite service?
We bought the RV so we could spend most of the winter somewhere (anywhere!!) warmer than Minnesota. We didn't expect to still be working. If we can find a reasonably fast and affordable internet connection we'll spend next winter on a beach somewhere.
Julie
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Looks like cellular companies have pretty well priced themselves out of the market with satellite costs being pretty much identical to the slower cell phone tethers with MUCH better coverage and generally higher speed.
Julie, if you'll be near any sizeable town, cellular data is the way to go.. Free or $50 card and (near big cities) much faster speeds than sat. and zero setup time. Just depends on where you are going. Check the 3G/EVDO coverage maps of the various providers. If they have coverage then go for it. Sat. works anywhere but its slower and a hassle..
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