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When I did it for a few years, I'd use coffeeshop or public wifi. LTE doesn't work well as a day to day. That is, for international stuff. Even if US centric, data caps are no good. But quite frankly: I wouldn't do this lifestyle in a pandemic.
What about Google Fi?
Still throttles bandwidth after 22GB/mo
Mint Mobile is similar to Google Fi, and their cap is higher (35GB). But I don't think they'll allow more data to be purchased.
Maybe the real solution here would be to purchase several plans and simpl change them SIM when cap is reached.
I've been pretty happy with spending most of my time in Costa Rica for nearly a decade or so. The pandemic numbers here have been really low, partly because people are fairly health-conscious here. Anti maskers are basically just gringos nobody likes or want anything to do with here instead of crazy people yelling vitriol in grocery stores. I don't live at the beach, because frankly it's kind of distracting having pe…
My understanding is that most digital nomads live and work from co-working spaces in beautiful tropically warm places which offer a nice balance between luxury for cheap, tourism and paradise like many places in South East Asia. I think many base themselves in cities like Singapore but the hop around Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc., so they don’t really have the issue of mobile broadband.
I've been doing van life for about a year and a half now. Zoom is the real killer and I try and steer my calls to audio as often as I can. I'm also a sysadmin/compliance consultant so I don't need as much screen time. My setup: Internet: Xfinity Wifi in city / TMobile Max for the road unlimited phone and 40GB tether. I've not yet tried to do all my zoom on the phone but in theory that would mean your Zoom wouldn't co…
I've been pretty happy with spending most of my time in Costa Rica for nearly a decade or so. The pandemic numbers here have been really low, partly because people are fairly health-conscious here. Anti maskers are basically just gringos nobody likes or want anything to do with here instead of crazy people yelling vitriol in grocery stores. I don't live at the beach, because frankly it's kind of distracting having pe…
> The heaviest things I own are probably books, but they're pretty sweet books so I take the weight. What are they, if you don't mind me asking of course.
I also got a couple of computer books. Concurrency in Go (oreilly) and this one thicc as heck tome which is the textbook for the SEED security labs which is also super good, because it comes with a bunch of virtual machines. Really nice source for levelling up your understanding of application vulnerabilities in C (and by extension other languages, but I was really glad to find something with these fundamental examples) https://www.handsonsecurity.net/
I travel a lot between EU/Asia/LatAm (yes its still happening) and for that my company provides unlimited plans. I spend most of my year on the road, from 6-8 months, but the longest stretch was only 4 months. We have 2 subs that cover pretty much the whole world.
I use a MacBook 13 fully specced out and a Samsung 21 Ultra where, when outside of the office, I hotspot from when WiFi in public is unavailable (LA/Asia has lots of free fast WiFi places).
Electronics with me, I take: laptop, phone, camera (RX100 6 or my A7R 3) and WF1000XM3. That's it. Sometimes it's already too much.
Can't live without: VPN (personal/office), streaming services (spotify/netflix/hbo) and I load some books on my phones kindle app.
I never think about data limits but I am also never too far from main cities.
If I could change something would be to get the MacBook 16. But then I think of the weight and hassle.
If you are in USA, the best thing I found was T-Mobile has at 100GB hotspot plan for $50 a month which each of you can get one. I have faced this a lot, since I have been a digital nomad for 8+ months now. Other things I did: like downloading songs and movies on my ipad when I have wifi has saved me a lot of GBs. On windows there is a setting called "metered connection", which will make sure it does not download majo…
I drive a truck everywhere. When i was on tmobile i was often out of range. I am out of range much less on verizon. I wonder if it's worth it for the OP to have accounts with more than one company.
I think the LTE iPad that another commenter suggested is the best option I've seen so far - that would be great to take calls on, and should leave enough hotspot data for other work on my laptop.