Stopped for Starlink powered work calls

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Coordinated roadtrip charging stops with work meetings. Starlink delivering 141 Mbps made the time fly by.

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[COdogman]

Very cool! Do you just have the dish plugged into the outlet in the bed?

 

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Yes, used the truck bed power plug

 

[dduffey]

I would love to see a mobile mounted version!

Had a Gen 2 starlink and powering off 12v was no problem.

 

[formula22]

I‘m also waiting for the day that Starlink is allowed for vehicles in motion! I did add a mount to the top of our Sprinter camper van to help avoid obstructions while boondocking. love the potrability now that Starlink has an RV plan (pay more for worse service)

 

[shrink]

Don't mean to be a Debbie Downer - just trying to understand.

I just got 184 Mbps down and 15 Mbps up on T-Mobile 5G on my iPhone 14 Pro, which can also be a hot spot without an ugly dish in the bed.

What's so great about Starlink? Just greater coverage area than 5G?

 

[formula22]

Coverage is why i have starlink. We boondock in many places without cell service

 

[the long way downunder]

Coordinated roadtrip charging stops with work meetings. Starlink delivering 141 Mbps made the time fly by.

For how little power the Starlink hardware needs, and now offering a mobile pricing option (what a racket) seems like easy stuff to offer a bracket to hold the wifi box and a small battery without all the permanent install cabling.

 

[dduffey]

Don't mean to be a Debbie Downer - just trying to understand.

I just got 184 Mbps down and 15 Mbps up on T-Mobile 5G on my iPhone 14 Pro, which can also be a hot spot without an ugly dish in the bed.

What's so great about Starlink? Just greater coverage area than 5G?

I was getting over 250Mbs (don't recall the uplink). There are several campsites we have been to with no Tmobile service (Gardner, Inks Lake).

 

[Donald Stanfield]

Don't mean to be a Debbie Downer - just trying to understand.

I just got 184 Mbps down and 15 Mbps up on T-Mobile 5G on my iPhone 14 Pro, which can also be a hot spot without an ugly dish in the bed.

What's so great about Starlink? Just greater coverage area than 5G?

It works in the sorts of places that don't have 5G services.

 

[Blueassassin]

Have you tried just using the Wi-Fi in the Rivian we are getting it for free.

 

[NY_Rob]

Any data caps with Starlink?

 

[Dark-Fx]

Have you tried just using the Wi-Fi in the Rivian we are getting it for free.

And with camp mode, you can leave it on all the time.

 

[formula22]

Have you tried just using the Wi-Fi in the Rivian we are getting it for free.

yes, Rivian hotspots works great in places where it has coverage... no different than hotspotting with my phone. In this case was just testing starlink on the road but my real use case for Starlink is boondocking in locations that i can‘t work from without it.

 

[formula22]

Any data caps with Starlink?

no data caps

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