Description
The RV Internet Trends for 2024 are being shaped by fast-moving technological advances in routers, seller upgrades, and a rapidly growing Starlink constellation of Internet-relaying satellites.
This week in Episode 480 of the RV Podcast, we talk to a trip of mobile Internet experts who share their predictions of RV Internet Trends for 2024 as they answer questions posed by a live audience of our RV Lifestyle Community members.
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Interview of the Week - RV Internet Trends for 2024
This week on the podcast, we look at the Top RV Internet Trends for 2024. Our expert guests are Chris and Cherie from the Mobile Internet Resource Center (rvmobileinternet.com) and Erik McCauley, the CEO and founder of MobileMustHave.com, a leading provider of RV accessories and mobile internet. Erik is an IT Infrastructure Engineer by trade.
We recently had all three on for a live-streaming event on our RV Lifestyle Community and they had so many helpful tips and helpful inside information that we edited it down to make a special podcast interview segment.
You may hear us referring to audience questions submitted by instant chat with those watching the livestream.
You can hear the interview and the entire podcast by clicking on either the video or audio players above.
Here are just a few highlights from a panel discussion FULL of gems.
Mike: Let's talk about Starlink. And if you're going to get one system, is that the one you'd get?
Well, so there is no one size fits all solution for everybody. So first, you need to understand your unique needs. Are you working remotely? Are you changing locations often? Do you have high bandwidth needs? Are you in places in urban areas where you're going to encounter congestion and oversaturated satellites or towers?
Starlink is an incredible addition to cellular because it can give you high bandwidth, it can give you 4K streaming in a lot of places. But Starlink needs a big view of the sky. So a lot of the places people want to camp, particularly on the eastern half of the country, have this thing called trees, which wreaks havoc on Starlink.
And cellular has gotten really, really good in a whole lot of places as well. So cellular doesn't care about trees too much. So having, you know, cellular as a good foundation and then Starlink as the extra thing you take along.
Mike: Eric, have you ever seen a solar flare disrupt Starlink at all, or is that just media hype we're hearing this week?
I heavily relied on StarLink over the last five days because I was in rural New Hampshire and there's no cellular coverage, and I had very few issues with Starlink.
Mike: We are parked under trees, so Starlink wouldn't have been great here, but we're using a bonded connection with two Verizon lines and two T-Mobile lines all combined together. Those were the best connections here at this place. And Eric, how about you? What are you using?
I'm at my studio, so I'm in my sticks and bricks. So I have a cable modem of Starlink on the roof and then a T-Mobile backup that's plugged into my router. So any one of those fail and I stay on.
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