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A town of seven thousand takes on half a million. Something has to give.
For one week each August the Black Hills absorb a crowd two orders of magnitude larger than the resident population, and the terrestrial network is comprehensively overwhelmed. Vendors, campground operators, and anyone processing payments feel it first.
Because the dish talks to satellites rather than the local towers, its capacity is unaffected by how many people just rode into town.
Sky and obstruction
Depends where you camp. The open prairie campgrounds east of the hills are effortless. The wooded private campgrounds tucked into ponderosa gulches around Sturgis and Deadwood are the harder case, pine on both valley walls takes real sky. If you are running a vendor operation, put the dish on the tripod above the tents and canopies rather than at ground level between them.
The sign-in page shows what the dish sees in real time, so you can reposition it before a meeting or call.
$30.00 / day10 GB data included
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