Video Streaming on the Road Tips: How to use HDMI Adapters with Smartphones & Tablets

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Technomadia
December 5, 2016

TL;DR: Streaming video while RVing eats up data fast—HD movies can quickly burn through pricey cellular plans. Plan wisely to avoid overage costs!

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While we’re on vacation this week, we thought we’d share an excerpt out of a new guide we just released over at RVMobileInternet about video streaming. Getting your TV and media fix while being mobile is definitely an element of RVing that has gotten substantially easier over the years. Streaming Video over Cellular Data So often we hear from folks that their mobile internet needs won’t be so demanding because they’re not trying to work online or attend remote virtual classes, they just want to stream “a few” movies and TV shows. Unfortunately, streaming video is one of the most bandwidth-intensive things you can do on the internet! Consider – a 90 minute high-definition movie on Netflix can easily eat up 4.5GBs of data! For perspective, if you have a 16GB plan on Verizon at the current rate of $110/month, you’ve just used roughly $27 worth of your data plan to watch this! If you’re

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Cherie Ve Ard and Chris Dunphy of Technomadia.com have been living and working full-time on the road since 2006, and Internet connectivity has been essential to them every step of the way. To help other RVers with the challenges of staying connected, they co-authored The Mobile Internet Handbook, and in 2014 they launched RVMobileInternet.com to provide unbiased information, reviews, resources and tutorials to help us all stay better connected on the road.
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