t-mobile-inseego-5g-mifi-m2000 In the early days of the Internet, RV travel lacked an important function for traveling lawyers. In the Nineties, when the Internet was necessary to keep in touch with the office and my law matters, I was plagued with the nagging feeling that I had no control over what might happen in my absence. I remember returning from one vacation in the days before the Internet, and I found out that a matter had blown up, and gotten worse because I couldn't be reached. Then, as time passed, I got better at creating portable device solutions, and connected via early modems. I once sent an email to the office using a huge 300 baud modem with a handset that hooked to a payphone in Yosemite National Park's giftshop parking lot. I once spent an hour rummaging around under a motel room bed so I could hook up a modem to the room phone line. Then, when WiFi started becoming more ubiquitous, I could connect to hotel and RV campground systems; but, as we all know, public WiFi is not secure, and RV campground WiFi is usually slow and spotty. Through decades of effort, however, and with the advent of the greatest Internet wireless speed increase in history, the time of fast 5G broadband is here. Now, I can carry broadband speed with me wherever I go, and T-Mobile's almost total coverage of the continental U.S. makes me a mobile warrior wherever I go. I can check and respond instantly to Emails and texts. I can research, and prepare and file pleadings in any County in the State of Florida, from anywhere in the U.S. I can watch TV anywhere I go. The price, all things considered, borders on insignificant. 100 Gigabytes of data for $50 a month. That allows me to use the 5G Inseego MiFi device continuously for several weekends a month. I just plug it in when we park the RV, turn it on, and connect two TVs, a computer, monitor and peripherals, and an interior security camera, and a Waggle dog monitor that monitors internal temperature in the RV. I also have a couple of Bluetooth powered soundbars that fill the coach with surround sound. I will be traveling with this setup for the Florida Attorney's Title Fund Convention, and the Florida Bar Convention in June, and will be presenting the Wanderlust - How To Be A Digital Nomad presentation with Michelle Gilbert at the Bar Convention. If you want to be as effective an advocate on the road as you are in your office, pay attention. The tech is here now. Since I don't do much litigation anymore (I am old), I haven't had the opportunity to do hearing practice via Zoom from a remote location; but, the tech is available. So, saddle up, road warrior. Free yourself from the constraints of place. You can be a lawyer wherever you happen to be.
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