At 11:12 AM 5/24/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Oh Yeah the Winnebiko dude!  He is one of my heroes!
>
>
>OK, how the heck do you do a portable internet connection without a land
>line?  He mentions a satellite uplink - to my knowledge they are only
>available with a companion land line.  Anybody know about this?  How do
>RV'ers get an internet connection, short of stopping in a KOA or a truck
>stop with a wifi hotspot?

Sat links are available without needing a landline.  The dish works both
ways - up as well as down. For transferring large files, it works
comparable, sort of, to something like DSL.  For smaller files the latency
will make you hate it.  Email takes 2 to 3 seconds each for small ones.
Come to work, click "get mail", go get some coffee.  100 emails = 5
minutes. Web pages that have lots of crap instead of lots of content (ie,
most of them) take ages to load.

We have one still on our roof at work... don't know what we'll do with it
but we sure won't use it after getting DSL service a month ago.  DSL seems
instantaneous after the sat link.

The sat link might be a good thing for the bike dude but the antennas could
be a bit large to carry around.
Tom

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