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Certainly the thing to use in the near future would be starlink. 50-150 mbps and <100ms ping. Right now they're only advertising their service for fixed locations, but if you park the van in one place for a while it might work out just fine.

We use Viasat at our farm and it's acceptable but kind of slow and has a long ping. I'm really itching to get starlink which they've projected will be available at our place later this year.



So it’s possible to videoconference with viasat’s long ping? Unpleasant, or unusable?


Yep it's possible. We have two connections - viasat and a fixed hilltop wireless and I can't remember which one was active when I last had a video call, but my partner has video calls daily and I know he's done it when that connection was active. But I can't recall how pleasant it is.




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