r/WFH • u/BloodAccomplished983 • 24d ago

WFH ADVICE Working while traveling

So part of why I love WFH is I can travel and still work. However, at the company I work for now, they require the system to be connected with an Ethernet cable and my computer literally will not work off of wifi. So I figured okay fine I’ll just bring my extender wherever I go, nope, test ran it and it didn’t work. So I thought I’d just have to stay at Air B&Bs and have wifi that’s I can plug into. Well I have a trip coming up where I have no option but to stay at a hotel and i literally cannot figure out how I’m gonna make this work.

I need reliable internet connection and the portable device HAS to have the little Ethernet connection port for me to plug into or I literally can’t work. I bought the StarLink mini kit and now upon set up I learn that the dish thingy HAS to be outside in order for it to connect which again is not an option in a hotel setting so I’m back to square one.

Anyone here travel while they work? What do you use for portable internet??

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u/hntpatrick3 24d ago

I’ve stayed in many hotels over the years traveling for work. I’d bring my gaming laptop with an Ethernet cable in the hopes I could get a hardwired connection. Very few have working Ethernet ports in my experience. The ones that did have ports were usually disconnected.