Working from an RV is a solved problem, but not by any single piece of gear. It is solved by redundancy and by picking the right sites. This playbook covers what your workday actually demands of a connection, how to build a setup that fails gracefully, and how to choose campsites that will not cost you a meeting.
The number that matters is smaller than most people expect, and it is not the one on the speed-test headline. A video call generally wants somewhere in the range of 1.5 to 4 Mbps in both directions depending on the quality it negotiates. Download is rarely the problem. Upload is what fails, and it fails in the way that matters most — you freeze, everyone else is fine, and you find out thirty seconds later.
This is why a site that streams movies beautifully can still ruin a standup. Streaming is almost entirely download. A call is symmetric. When you test a site, test the upload.
The setup that works is not the fastest one, it is the one with two independent paths to the internet. In practice that means two carriers on different networks plus Starlink where you can see sky.
Read that pairing as the actual strategy: not “which one is best,” but “these two fail under different conditions, so carry both.”
A campsite’s connectivity is decided by things that photograph badly — how much sky the site sees, whether a ridge sits between you and the tower, how dense the canopy is over the pad. Two sites in the same loop of the same campground can differ enormously. This is why regional coverage maps mislead: they are modelled at a scale that cannot see any of that.
Camp Roostly scores each campsite on FCC predicted per-carrier cell, Starlink sky-view, and reports from campers who stayed there, and gives you one verdict you can filter on. If you want somewhere to start, the best campgrounds for remote work pages rank them state by state, and the method for checking any campground generalizes to sites we have not scored.
The failure that actually costs remote workers is not a dead zone — it is a travel day scheduled on top of a meeting. Long drives are when you are least reachable and least able to fix anything, and the conflict is invisible until you look at both calendars at once.
Camp Roostly checks your route against your work and school calendar and warns you when a drive leg overlaps something you cannot move, while there is still time to shift a day. Combined with a rig-safe route and a connectivity verdict at the far end, that is the whole playbook: know the road, know the signal, and know the schedule before you commit to any of them.
Even a good setup has bad days. Know where the nearest town with reliable service is before you need it, keep enough battery and data headroom to relocate, and be honest with your team about the days you are moving. Redundancy buys you margin; it does not buy certainty, and planning as though it does is how people get caught out.
Camp Roostly scores every campsite on cell and Starlink coverage, then warns you when a drive day collides with a meeting or a school day. Free to start on the web.
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