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Overhead trees, buildings and bridges etc do indeed inhabit the signal greatly. How it manifests is dropouts for 10-30 seconds every 5 minutes or so. The app clearly shows where instructions are and service expectations with the obstacles. When the dish is mounted on your van it’s simple to reverse park and determine where is good. Typically I get out of the van and look where the dish is pointing (usually due south) and adjust van as needed. As vans need solar, I don’t find myself parking under trees because solar needed to charge batteries and tree branches destroy vans in bad weather.

Costs are not even worth discussing. It’s how I earn income. As such portions are tax deductible and loss of a days productivity due to bad internet (let’s say you are only using 4g) at a campsite you haven’t been to before is disastrous in comparison to cost of multi homed internet.



Perhaps the direct question: how much does it cost?


$139aud/month. Nothing.


The RV service for Colorado - $707 upfront w/ first month, $135/mo thereafter. Looks like Metro Denver is on the waitlist for 2023. Interesting.




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