As fulltime RVers, we are so excited because i think it actually works out that we're saving
money and we've added starlink we're going to give you our take on that
we've also switched away from verizon to something else and we're going to give you our take on that
welcome to the channel i'm paul and i'm liz and these are exciting times to push past fear
build confidence and live amazing and you will certainly live amazing if you have reliable
internet out here on the road as an RVer it is probably the number one issue for for most people
that do this life full time it is very hard to get internet when you're out in campgrounds
i want reliable internet so so paul if if he really needs to have internet we have been in
places where we've had to leave early he can last a couple hours but not a full day without internet
yeah i'm a junkie to the internet and youtube and and the like i mean we've
been fulltime Rver for three and a half years and we're just now getting it to where we have
uh what we consider reliable internet and and a reliable phone service that's not breaking the
bank every month right and we are so excited because i think it actually works out that
we're saving money and we've added starlink we're going to give you our take on that
we've also switched away from verizon to something else and we're going to give you our take on that
here's where it gets a little confusing we're still on verizon but we're not with verizon
and we're saving we've gone from 160 dollars a month to 50 a month but let's talk about starlink
because everybody's talking about starlink and um it's satellite internet there's been a long
wait it's been a couple years um it's one of elon musk's companies we were going to do a
video about the setup but the setup takes like 10 minutes most of that 10 minutes you're just
waiting i mean yeah so all you do for starlink is you plug in you have a dish and you have a router
when i took this thing out of the box this thing dropped and this thing picks up dirt very easily
you want to look and make sure there's no dirt in the business end of this connector
be careful wherever you're going to put this thing because you could damage the business end of this
plug very easily you plug the dish into the router we ran the wire in the side of our slide and then
you wait wait for it to find a satellite yeah and then you have very fast internet so how fast
is our internet well we just checked it and it was over a hundred megabytes per second yes it is so
screaming fast we have found that anything over five we can kind of get by yeah five is a kind of
the the ax the bottom of is the bottom and that's not with starlink with starlink we've been 60 70
over 100 we've never had anything below 60. we've had it for a week would you say yeah just a week
so starlink may not be for everyone when we were in the chesapeake area we had a
neighbor who had just gotten starlink and he could not get it to work or work very well
why well it does not work with obstructions it really needs a wide open sky
and we were in a leafy area and the trees were blocking the satellites and he was having outages
every 40 seconds even where we are right now there are some trees but we've got a lot of blue
sky above us and it's still there's an obstruction because of one of the trees now we thought since
they mowed the day before that our dish would be safe 20 feet behind our campsite we were wrong we
ran out just in time to save our dish and cable therefore we recommend to keep your dish inside
your campsite boundary so here's the thing when you go to set up your dish you can stand at the
place that you want to put the dish and there's something on the app that will tell you if it's a
good site for it yeah you open the app and you're just you're scanning literally scanning this guy
that's not the only thing that that you have to think about with starlink
it does not work at all in a pouring down rain it doesn't work very well in in in a moderate rain
and it does slow down a little bit with overcast but if it's pouring down rain if like we are we're
here on the east side of the country where it just rained for three days yeah so it was in and out
during the rains i actually went on to 18 at t and it was better so these are things to think about
where if you're going to be stationary in an area where it regularly buckets down in rain
and it buckets down all day long of heavy rain this may not be for you and we were
just talking about oregon we love we love that state but there's a lot of rain there a lot
lots of times it's just misty rain so you're not going to have as fast speeds if it wasn't
not to mention the trees yes yeah so that's the probably going to be the biggest
the biggest stopper for you if you are surrounded by trees we we went and talked
about campsites we've been in in the past that were like nope wouldn't work here wouldn't work
where we met in washington in paradise where we were parked probably wouldn't work because
because we had trees all around us but don't let us talk you out of this because it is if it works
for you it's yeah it's going to get you out here on the road it's going to have you happy starlink
recently introduced service for rvers they will ship it immediately and you can use it right away
however the service might be downgraded if you're in a populated area also they advise against using
starlink while you're driving down the road if you talk to full-time rvers the longer they're on the
road ask them what their internet bill started out with so we started out with one carrier
we started out with verizon we spent you know 100 bucks a month then we added um mifi's so we've got
up to 160 but we went to places where there was no verizon coverage so we added at t this is a story
that you'll hear from other full-timers where they have two cellular carriers so now we have
we still have verizon but we switched over we're gonna talk about that in a second so we still have
two carriers but now we've added starlink we use verizon but it's through visible so we're
on visible but we also have we are keeping our att for internet it's no phones just internet because
there are going to be some places if you're like us and you travel the country there's going to
be some places where verizon doesn't work so it's good to have two but we can't get rid of
those because starlink works where we are but we're not taking it with us when we go out to
the grocery or we go out exploring we still need cellular right you can't use starlink as a phone
when we started looking what we were going to do to get rid of this 160 dollar a month bill
with with verizon we started looking at the phone plans out there and we settled on visible visible
is powered by verizon so it's the same cellular the same coverage as verizon only it's cheaper
you can get it down to 25 dollars a month if you join a a party which is really simple so
basically visible is forty dollars a month it's unlimited it's not super fast like starlink but
it's plenty fast actually if you mention our name use our link below your first month will only be
five dollars and if you're not buying a phone i mean that's all you're gonna pay is five bucks
right and then you'll join a party plan it's just you'll go into the app and you'll see
there's parties already it's just a group plan it doesn't change anything but the you join this
group your 40 goes down to 25. yeah if there's four or more people in the group it's 25 bucks
i think the group that we signed up for has got over 10 000 yeah it's a reddit group so
it's just yeah it's just a check box that you do well i found that visible was actually faster
you know when maybe because i got a newer phone i found it faster yeah um than verizon yeah it
was faster on my my but i i got a new phone as well i i my phone was over three years old three
and a half years old mine was seven years old mine was an iphone 6. yeah it was really old
they have a chat app where you talk to a real person they've been unfailingly friendly positive
high-five kind of help which has been wonderful yeah i had a problem with set up that when i put
the sim card in it didn't for whatever reason it didn't connect and i had to go on to chat
in five minutes i was uh the phone was working again if you say our name you only pay five
dollars for your first month so that's fabulous we'll have a link at below yeah yeah save yourself
some money and and and just mention our name the takeaway is that you need more than one answer if
you're going to be out here for an extended amount of time or if you're going to be a full-time rv
or if you're going to be working on the road just plan on having one or two cellular plans
and then um you know starlink we starlink is a fast just lightning fast if you just browse the
internet and use your phone you're probably gonna be able to get by on just visible you probably
won't need starling but if you're working on the roads you're probably doing zoom calls
you probably you might have more of a complex internet need where you need the higher speeds
that's where starlink comes in and you could probably write it off as a business expense
well let us know your internet questions and any challenges that you have while you're on the road
yeah and you're watching us on the internet right now so that's how important it is
and we'll see you in the next video this tree is blocking my internet
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