The article is about living out of a camper van, where fiber isn't an option. I lived and worked remotely out of an RV in 2012. There's really no such thing as

The article is about living out of a camper van, where fiber isn't an option. I lived and worked remotely out of an RV in 2012. There's really no such thing as overkill when you can't have a hardline internet connection but need internet to do your job. Though Starlink may change that. When I was doing it, I had a T-Mobile unlimited cell plan, a Verizon hotspot, and I'd go into town to find wifi. It still wasn't enough to feel like I could count on internet being there. While travelling, it's easy to not have quality cell signal (or any signal). "Unlimited" plans never mean "you're allowed to push 90GB/mo through this". Public wifi is hard to track down, has highly variable quality, and you're always working in Starbucks instead of at your desk with your equipment. If you have to stay at an RV park, the costs are astronomical enough that you save money by parking out of town, where the cell signal is worse. Satellite offerings are extremely expensive (pre-Starlink, at least), and don't work if you can't get clear line-of-sight to the satellite. If I'd been making more money at the time, I absolutely would have invested more in my internet access. And it sounds like today this stuff has more-numerous and better-documented solutions than when I was doing it. It was easily worth the trouble to live that way for a while.