NY_Dutch
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Both the current Gen4 Hughes and Exede are spot beamed satellite services designed only for fixed location use. Spot beams limit the coverage to a relatively small geographical area, and moving from spot to spot presents some significant difficulties. There are a couple of companies that offer equipment and plans suited to RV use, but the equipment is costly at about $6000 for an automatic roof mounted system, or $1000 for a tripod mounted manually aimed system. Figure on 45-60 minutes to set up and aim the manual system at each location. Then there are the limited data plans and speeds available, along with extended lag times that pretty much rule out any online gaming. Overall, cell services offer much better speeds and data for a lot less money, so unless you absolutely need Internet service in one of the few locations where cell service is not available even with a top of the line signal booster, then satellite Internet is not generally a good choice for RV'ers. That may change when one of the new low earth orbit multiple sat systems becomes active in a couple of years or so, but not now...