Best Satellite Internet Solution for South America?

DosCaminos

New member
Hey everyone,

I am planning an expedition to South America and am looking for a good vehicle internet solution. We will have a full film crew and need to interact with our home base stateside daily. We will also be uploading content in excess of 100GB per month. The system can be vehicle mounted or a fly away system.

I got a quote from a sat provider for a 1.2m flyaway system for $8,600 +$800/month for 1mb down/560kbs up.

Thanks!
 

dwh

Tail-End Charlie
Is that 1 megaBYTE (MB) / 560 kiloBYTE (KB) or 1 megaBIT (Mb) / 560 kiloBIT (Kb)?

Bandwidth is generally specified in bits per second, file sizes in bytes.


So, 560 Kbps ÷ 8 = 70 KB per second. 15 seconds per megabyte.

15 x 1024 = 15,360 seconds per gigabyte.

15,360 x 100 = 1,536,000 seconds to upload 100 GB.

1,536,000 ÷ 86,400 seconds per day = 17.7 days to upload 100 GB.


And that doesn't include network overhead traffic, especially error checking and packet re-sends, or additional traffic such as your crew screwing around on social media.


Consider youself lucky if you could actually get 100 GB uploaded through a 560 Kbps connection in under a month.

Better be certain before you buy.
 

bigskypylot

Explorer
Is that 1 megaBYTE (MB) / 560 kiloBYTE (KB) or 1 megaBIT (Mb) / 560 kiloBIT (Kb)?

Bandwidth is generally specified in bits per second, file sizes in bytes.


So, 560 Kbps ÷ 8 = 70 KB per second. 15 seconds per megabyte.

15 x 1024 = 15,360 seconds per gigabyte.

15,360 x 100 = 1,536,000 seconds to upload 100 GB.

1,536,000 ÷ 86,400 seconds per day = 17.7 days to upload 100 GB.


And that doesn't include network overhead traffic, especially error checking and packet re-sends, or additional traffic such as your crew screwing around on social media.


Consider youself lucky if you could actually get 100 GB uploaded through a 560 Kbps connection in under a month.

Better be certain before you buy.

Indeed!
 

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