Portable satellite internet

Satellite can be expensive and is slow with limited data allowance so I gave up on it last time I looked. I have a dual sim normal phone with both Telstra and Optus and found that if I'm close to any town then I will usually have internet on one of them.

I think there is quite a difference between satellite NBN plans and data downloads via a satphone plan. The latter seems to be prohibitively expense, in the $s per kilobyte bracket. Don't even know what the eligibility is to connect to a satellite NBN as a mobile user and/or the feasibility of setting up a dish but presumably this would be the way to go.

Robert Pepper is pushing Starlink as an option:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L84DfapjQdg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTar81IkhQ

There is a guy with a page on Facebook called “Overland Exposure”. He is an ex military communications specialist. He also has a UTube channel and has a couple of very informative videos with regard to remote communication. Might be worth looking him up on “Google”.

Macca.

I used an ANT system that connected to the Optus geostationary satellite back in 2017. It worked but was hard to set up and slow. It was better suited to email than browsing - the ping time was pretty big since the data went from me to the geostationary satellite and back to earth (35,000kms each way - 600ms or more ping time ). So you'd click on something and it would take a second to respond - ok for reading the news/weather/ExplorOz but not great for anything where there is lots of interaction. Remote Control of a PC was possible but super frustrating - imagine using your mouse/keyboard with a 1 second delay between typing/moving mouse/clicking and seeing the results...

ANT discontinued their system and I wasn't able to find anything similar when I looked in 2019 or so. NBN won't let mobile users connect (you have to have a fixed address) and I don't think Starlink is set up for mobile users (yet). Hopefully when something will be sorted when I get to travel somewhere remote next - it's still a few years away!

Hi
We used to use this around 12 years ago. Hideously expensive (at least back then), but we just needed to use a small amount of data per day. Worked for us.
Cheers
Lyndon
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A BARGAIN @ ONLY $704 per month :-)

You may have hardware costs on top of that :-)

PLANS

Thanks everyone who commented here. I have followed up on the suggestions and have drawn a blank. It seems that there may be some options towards the end of this year. So for now it’s watch and wait!

Thanks again.

I ran a drafting business for the last 15+ years and got all my work via email so when touring I needed internet access.

I used Telstra mobile and with the help of Wikicamps I had service at every overnight stop even crossing the Nullabore but then we only follow the blacktop.

If you are heading more remote, you could look at getting a Yagi plus the CelFi.