‘Outside’ Magazine: How To Work Off-Grid from Anywhere – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
It used to be that working while traveling tethered you to internet cafes, coffee shops, or hotel rooms. No longer. Thanks to the latest advances in satellite internet and portable power systems, you can now take seamless connectivity anywhere you can bring along a truck, boat, or other vehicle, according to a story by Wes Siler for Outside magazine.
Here’s how you can work from a stunning campsite more productively than you can in a soul-sucking corporate office. (Take it from the guy writing this on a beach in Baja.)
It Starts With Starlink…
We don’t like Musk any more than you do, but man, Starlink is a total game changer for remote internet access, pretty much anywhere in the world.
We’ve previously reported that Starlink works seamlessly while traveling (provided you can find an unobstructed view of the sky), and dove into the ethics of establishing a near-universal connection to the outside world.
What’s new here is that this third-generation hardware is now available to ship immediately to any address in the United States, and is even available in physical Best Buy and Home Depot locations. Older setups shipped only to geographic areas with lower demands, on uncertain lead times. This latest generation also packs into a much more portable format, but more on that soon.
As I write this, just south of the 28th parallel, under overcast skies, I’m seeing about 56 megabytes per-second download speed, and 11 MBPS upload, with single digit seconds of latency. That’s about half the speed I’m used to seeing at my family’s cabin in northern Montana, where I permanently installed my old second generation dish, but still enough for buffer-free video calls, and high-resolution image uploads.
