For travel purposes I'd be fine with 50GB. I just wish it were a little cheaper for the unlimited home install. I'd love to ditch my internet provider.
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Well, they had a special today so I bought the Delta 3 with the alternator charger for $836. I don't know when it will ship but I decided to give it a go. Pretty sure I can make the wiring work with a permanent battery connection and not mounting the charger at all. Hopefully I can replace my medium and large sogens with this one.
Sweeney
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I gave up on the big carriers and moved to a smaller company that resells the same service -- this is how Cricket and some of the other companies work --- you're getting the same network just at a discount and possibly being "Deprioritized" a bit - but its never been a problem. I use 'Red Pocket' for both my phone service, as well as a hotspot plan. Its like $20 month for the phone, and $40 a month for the hotspot. 20 gigs of data for $40 isn't bad. They'v been really good so far, and aren't doing anything jenky like Nomad Internet or ConnecTEN are doing -- both fo which I have used.
The Data speeds are about 3-4 megabit, but I've seen much faster. This is enough for YouTube (not 4k, but HD), remote desktop, and video calling. I was able to work remotely using this a couple of times. Even with my wife doing the same -- the video did 'pixelate' a bit at that point but it was still usable. I mean, really, 9 times out of 10 on video calls I would turn off my camera anyway in which case audio was fine.
This might not be ideal in congested areas where the cellular networks aren't built up - but int he past 5 years, I've seen a marked improvement in coverage.
All that said...Starlink is faster than that, and theoretically has coverage everywhere. The only down side is that it doesn't fit in my pocket, needs a lot more power (7 amps) Stricly for the "RV" -- The Starlink value proposition is really good.
While in Texas last week, I saw a couple of mini's in front of the parked RVs. The "antenna" is really shrunk!!! I didn't see any people to ask if they liked it, but I assume it worked -- it was there. The trees were dense with exposed sky basically above the 'camp-ground loops. I'm not sure how being farther south impacted this...its got me thinking
The only downside is that you effectively need 110 volts --- the Starlink is 60 watts, which will suck a Group 24 battery dead in short order. 6 amps is a chunk of power. Even a LI battery would only give you about 10 hours if my arithmetic is right. Which is always questionable this early in the day
SLO Camper
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In my experience, the Starlink mini uses about 25-30 watts in use.
I was actually referring to the internet service I get to the house from my cable provider. I cut the cord years ago but still need internet and only have two current options I'm aware of, both of which I've had and I don't like.I gave up on the big carriers and moved to a smaller company that resells the same service -- this is how Cricket and some of the other companies work --- you're getting the same network just at a discount and possibly being "Deprioritized" a bit - but its never been a problem. I use 'Red Pocket' for both my phone service, as well as a hotspot plan. Its like $20 month for the phone, and $40 a month for the hotspot. 20 gigs of data for $40 isn't bad. They'v been really good so far, and aren't doing anything jenky like Nomad Internet or ConnecTEN are doing -- both fo which I have used.
The Data speeds are about 3-4 megabit, but I've seen much faster. This is enough for YouTube (not 4k, but HD), remote desktop, and video calling. I was able to work remotely using this a couple of times. Even with my wife doing the same -- the video did 'pixelate' a bit at that point but it was still usable. I mean, really, 9 times out of 10 on video calls I would turn off my camera anyway in which case audio was fine.
This might not be ideal in congested areas where the cellular networks aren't built up - but int he past 5 years, I've seen a marked improvement in coverage.
All that said...Starlink is faster than that, and theoretically has coverage everywhere. The only down side is that it doesn't fit in my pocket, needs a lot more power (7 amps) Stricly for the "RV" -- The Starlink value proposition is really good.
While in Texas last week, I saw a couple of mini's in front of the parked RVs. The "antenna" is really shrunk!!! I didn't see any people to ask if they liked it, but I assume it worked -- it was there. The trees were dense with exposed sky basically above the 'camp-ground loops. I'm not sure how being farther south impacted this...its got me thinking
The only downside is that you effectively need 110 volts --- the Starlink is 60 watts, which will suck a Group 24 battery dead in short order. 6 amps is a chunk of power. Even a LI battery would only give you about 10 hours if my arithmetic is right. Which is always questionable this early in the day
For my phone I still use Verizon but with a prepaid plan which is cheaper than post paid. My bill went from $58 to $35 a month and my data went from 3GB to 15GB. Go figure. I mainly stay with them because of my travels. As a Verizon customer I get access to some roaming areas that a reseller doesn't always get. I drive through some very desolate areas on my trips. Much of it probably has no service but where there is service it's usually towers that Verizon has access to but third party resellers who buy from Verizon don't. At least that's my understanding.
Sweeney
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My brother in law switched to starlink some time ago -- he loves it. He lives in the middle of nowhere digitally speaking.
I'm lucky --- I've got a really good COOP that gives me internet, years ago they invested heavily in Fiber optics. I went from 5 megabit DSL to 200 meg fibre, then now to 1 gigabit --- now we're talking.
A couple weeks ago I resynced my offline backup of somewhere between 5 and 6 terrabytes to my cloud provider backup. I started it around 8 at night, and it was finished the next morning...that was amazing. I'm not sure how Starlink would deal with that even with the unlimited plan....
GlampingOn
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Heck of a good deal!
I was in Home Depot and notice they sell both Jackery and Ecoflow. The Delta3 is $899 off the shelf there, alone.
You have to be careful of the ones in Home Depot and Walmart. For some reason they often are a lesser capacity than the units sold direct by the manufacturer.
They are still on sale direct from Ecoflow for $650 alone or $850 with the alternator charger.