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Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV

Posted by samzenpus on from the dear-indugu dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I have been telecommuting as a software architect for a major corporation since 2007. It has allowed me to live a quality rural lifestyle. Never content, am now considering living on the road for several years. Due to the proliferation of 4G and wireless hotspots, I see no reason I could not do this from a 5th-wheel trailer. Have any slashdotters truly cut the cord in this manner? Any advice or warnings?"

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  1. Depends where you camp by slim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I assume if you're RVing, you want to be in reasonably rural areas -- not in city RV parks.

    I RV'd through British Columbia and Alaska 3 years ago. For much of the route, 3G wasn't available. State/County campsites don't have WiFi. Commercial campsites almost always have WiFi.

    However, the quality of the WiFi can vary wildly. You could easily find yourself camped on the edge of the coverage area of a consumer-grade 802.11b access point, sharing a basic DSL connection with everyone else on the site. Sometimes even basic web browsing is frustrating. I wouldn't want to be reliant on it for VOIP, screen sharing, email attachments of reasonable size, or largeish file transfers.

    So I think you'll find yourself hunting out sites with reliable WiFi, which means you won't be as free as you might have hoped.