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What antennas do you use for connecting in each country? I'm a programmer working remotely primarily, but would like to start doing it while travelling around
by hnwh 14y ago
What antennas do you use for connecting in each country? I'm a programmer working remotely primarily, but would like to start doing it while travelling around the world. Would love to chat with you more. Do most countries have stupid issues with multiple internet network types such as in the US, or can any 3G modem work in most places? And is 3G enough? I find I'm mostly comfortable with around 7 Mb/s down, 3Mb up
- ashray 14y agoI use my iPhone 4S and tether it to my laptop. Most countries do have different frequency bands but an iPhone or newer Android will work just fine. 7Mb/s down and 3Mb up would be too much to expect off 3G. Even over Wifi in many countries, that would be too much. You could realistically expect about 2Mb/s down, but this really varies from country to country. 3G is enough for keeping track of things, pushing changes to github, uploading a few facebook pictures, etc. You can't really do much more than that without wifi. But thankfully that's available almost everywhere!
- hnwh 14y agoFor my remote job, I need to have daily skype conferences with up 4 people.. have you found that you can use skype reliably over these 3G connections, or is that something that you haven't really done much?
- ashray 14y agoI've used skype over 3G. Infact, I've used skype with video over 3G as well. However, a 4-way Skype over 3G is probably very difficult in most countries (but hey, choose Japan and South Korea and you should be able to 16-way skype on their mobile internet ;)). What I'm trying to say is that you could move to Brazil, rent an apartment with a 10 Meg line, and carry on with your work. I know a day trader (he calls himself the wandering trader..) who did exactly that.