Internet Access Concerns

[Stephan Cleaves]

Hi Pippi and other readers,

You mention in one video that you have a direct cable connection out of your RV which runs into a wireless router. How prevalent is such an accommodation (wired Internet) at RV parks? I have been very interested in the idea of RV living for a couple years. I have a full-time telecommute job which would allow me the flexibility to pursue this lifestyle but I absolutely MUST have decent Internet. By day I am a software engineer, by night a YouTube partner and Twitch streamer. I am rather spoiled with over 100 Mbps at home. I’m sure I cannot expect that in an RV park, but supplementing with coffee shop WiFi I’m wondering if I can continue to do what I do and be unconstrained by location. Thanks for any and all feedback about this.

Stephan

[Pippi]

Hi Stephan, you have to check with the park you’re considering. But there’s no reason why their hookups differ in anyway than a traditional house. You would get an account with the internet company just like elsewhere and choose your speed.

Note, that some parks are limited to either DSL vs cable internet, so if you have a preference, do your homework first.

Happy streaming! 😀

[j0zf]

I write software full time too. Almost all RV parks worth staying at have Wifi these days… yeah, it won’t usually be great, but I back it up with a pretty fat Verizon data plan that is always rock solid. I just sure wish Verizon had an unlimited plan, but a few cuss words later and a pretty dang good asus dark knight router
and I can usually get enough cats. ( check madeofcats.com if you don’t know what I mean )

• This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Pippi.

[Melio]

Don’t ask the park about internet access and which spots are the best. tell them you will pay for the site after you inspect it because you don’t want nails in your tires!

all the while, when you go driving around the park stop in various spots you might be using and check the wifi signal – if you need a tool for this. get one. because camping on a spot with crappy wifi and no cell signal is a nightmare to the internet addict. there’s not enough campfires and smores to cure it.

also, once you get a good signal spot, you can pretty much figure out where the access points are – and if they work ok by asking the campers there around those spots before you park it. they will be honest. RVYELP.com doesnt exist 🙂 but if you make a bad comment about internet on a review site, it’s NOT going to look good for the campsite and you are ruining the campsite reputation for camping, it doesnt matter if the internet sucks or not. camping isnt internet!

so seriously consider comments like that. it hurts the business of the people who not only live the dream but support ours by cutting the grass around our spots for us and doing all the work to make the site clean and respectable.

[Otacon]

Pippi would you be able share the ins an outs of all the things having to do with internet on the road and what you have figured out as a solution. I work as a web designer myself and am very interested in this lifestyle for at least a couple of years. I understand that its pretty impossible to have 100M on the road. But whats your normal speed. Feel like sharing it all?

[Pippi]

Hi Otacon, check out this topic thread about all that. Best of luck with it: https://www.pippenings.com/rv-living/rv-motorhome-life-forum/topic/internet-on-the-road/

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