Getting Online 1.2

There are generally two areas with little cellular coverage, National Parks and Alaska. We love visiting National Parks and also have plans to visit Alaska so we decided to invest in a satellite Internet system. After touring their facility last November, we chose RVDataSat out of Chesapeake, VA. They offered the best value package for unlimited Internet.

Although RVDataSat had performed Airstream installs of their smallest unit, we felt more comfortable having Airstream perform the hardware work. So we arranged for the Mothership to take care of the dish installation with the RVDataSat technician offering advice. When the hardware work was completed, the RVDataSat technician took care of the internal wiring and system configuration.

The system works well, beaming a signal to the Galaxy 3C satellite approximately 22,000 miles away sitting over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific! Download speeds are as expected around 2Mpbs down and 512kbps up. Latency is about 500ms.