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Post by earlelaine on Aug 18, 2022 10:27:13 GMT -5
The problem travel to different location is that your cellular phone provider may not serve that area and is covered by a "Partner" 3rd party cell company. The problem with this is it doesn't matter if you have the worlds best data plan the 3rd party Partner company will throttle you down since your not their local customer. So after streaming Netflix for a couple days you data is throttled back to almost nothing. Your options is use your factory Over The Air tv antenna (OTA) on your roof and hope to pick up a couple channels or use a satellite system from DirecTV or Dish Networks which starts at about $75 per month.
S we speak my neighbors in the next site has a bat wing on their roof that cranks cup about 4 feet and rotates to the direction of the TV tower can pickup about 10 stations. I have the small omni antenna and cannot pick up any stations. Just curious what others are using for TV service?
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Jim
Seasonal RV’er
Ready to Camp!
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Post by Jim on Aug 19, 2022 10:03:10 GMT -5
Earl, this is a "can of worms" subject, but a fun "can" for sure. Given the many ways to get various services and media it will be a deep seemingly unending rabbit hole of information, decisions.
But for us until, the DW(Dear Wife) retires in December we won't be able to come up with a good answer as to what works for us and doesn't. We plan to take that first big tour in our Venture this winter to see if we can answer where and where not we want to be "snowbirds" or just nomadic RVers in the future.
But in our travels so far, we usually use the following methods. 1. for reliability, we use a Dish unit with month-to-month sub. 2. Next is a Firestick wirelessly tethered to our phone.3. Streaming to our phones. 4.RV park cable service when available.5. Use our DVD player with own DVD library. 6. Least way is the OTA antenna because we usually aren't close enough to stations.
We will be following your thread for sur, thanks for the question.
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bobw
Weekender RV’er
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Post by bobw on Aug 22, 2022 9:59:37 GMT -5
We use the OTA antenna and the DVD player. When all else fails we carry BOOKS!
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Post by earlelaine on Aug 23, 2022 9:18:30 GMT -5
We use the OTA antenna and the DVD player. When all else fails we carry BOOKS! I have a small online business and do YouTube videos so I need to be connected to the internet all the time. |
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Post by earlelaine on Aug 23, 2022 9:39:26 GMT -5
I ran into a couple camping this week and they had one pole mounted on the back of their bumper similar how other mount the US flag. On the pole was everything, OTA antenna for free tv, a cellular booster repeater for cell service and a wifi antenna for internet service from free wifi. If the wifi fails then your backup is internet service over your cell service. The pole mount system was simple and portable, you don't have to drill holes into your roof, if you sell your RV and Geta different one you can transfer the pole to your new RV.
On a side note I'm a retired IT network person from the Boeing Company where I spent the last 30 years supporting cellular service, Computer Networks and Wifi antenna. I started how supporting TWX machines and Wang Word Processors systems. So instead of counting sheep at bed time I count coax cables. So my whole house is covered with 10 security video cameras, Cellular microcell repeater, house appliances are wifi down to thermostat, oven, garage door, routers, LAN switches, too many others to mention.
So yeah I will talk about networks here and there hopefully to help others in their needs at home or in their RV.
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