Hi all; Do you have mobile phone service ??? If so and using a smartphone, just tether your laptop computer to your phone. Works for me to the point that it is the only way i use to get on the the internet.  

You could take a look at Starlink:

Starlink

Still patchy coverage in Oz and not cheap.

kdazz,

Go here:

winsig.com.au

They have a number of antennas that connect to a CelFi booster/wifi unit.

I can unreservedly vouch for the performance of the outside knock-down

stick antenna coupled with the inside celfi unit.

And the bonus is that the celfi unit has such a strong signal that you can
use your phone/computer or whatever anywhere within 20-30 meters.

If you mount an alternate smaller, say, Jaycar magnetic antenna on the car or van
somewhere, you will receive a much improved signal in the car while travelling.
Even the supplied stick knock-down antenna makes a huge difference even
when layed down to reception in car if you don't want to fiddle with the small magnetic
wire antenna.

And another tip - the piddling little supplied indoor radiator is marginal - spend $10
at Jaycar for a small magnetic/wire one for indoors.

It's plug 'n play.

The people are more than helpful and very easy to talk to.

Hey Daz,

When I was travelling a few months back I was working on the road. So needed pretty reliable internet.

I found the Cel-Fi go worked really well. Seemed to boost my reception from 1 bar to 3 or 4. Could access 3G most really rural spots. Was a little slow but did the job.

Mostly had 4G outside of major towns. 

Think the unit plus an aerial was roughly $1100. Found a great install video online and installed myself. 

The wife and I shared a Telstra business plan $65 per month for 180gb of data.  

Good luck mate!

Young fella wrote:

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I found the Cel-Fi go worked really well. Seemed to boost my reception from 1 bar to 3 or 4. Could access 3G most really rural spots. Was a little slow but did the job.

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 Cel-Fi will not get internet connections any better than a good wireless modem using the same antennas as a Cel-Fi uses. What the OP is looking for is internet in areas that do not have mobile phone access. The only way you will get that is with satellite. This was discussed in another forum and fully explained there.

All Cel-Fi does is pick up a signal that is received in a good external antenna, amplifies it and transmits it through a second antenna so that devices with internal antennas can receive the signal picked up by the external antenna. If your device has an external antenna input it is far more cost effective to get a good external antenna and not waste a grand on that Cel-Fi brick. It's just like commerce, if you cut out the middle man you can get your goods cheaper.

Young fella wrote:

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... I didn't think the modems or aerials actually amplified the signal? Interesting stuff! Thanks mate.

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Antennas don't amplify the signal. They just capture signal. The whole problem with phone and internet reception is getting some signal in the first place. If the signal is reasonably strong, then any device with an internal antenna will capture the signal and communicate with the outside world. As you move away from the phone cell tower,  the devices with the least sensitive antennas will be the first to not get sufficient signal and fail to communicate. That is why Telstra suggest you purchase a blue tick phone if you are going to travel in remote areas. Blue tick phones have a better antenna in them than the cheaper phones. The better the antenna the more signal it will pick up in weak signal areas.

When you are out in the fringe areas of the nearest suitable cell tower there are ways and means of capturing a little more of the available signal. If you are in a car or caravan that is attenuating the signal then getting out of the vehicle and moving to another place will help. The signal level is not uniform around the place where you are. People have noted that they can get TV reception on certain sites in a caravan park and not in others. If you move around a caravan park when you are in poor signal areas you can often find you can use your phone in certain spots in the park. For those with motor homes where you can climb onto the top then you will often find a much better signal level up there. Signal levels increase as you get higher off the ground. That is why Peter (of Peter & Margaret) puts his phone up on a pole (and uses it as a Wi-Fi hotspot,) he gets a better signal up there.

If your device has an external antenna input then an external antenna can improve things for you. The larger and better built antennas will capture more of the available signal that is available than small ones in a handheld device. (Or to put in other words, a large antenna will gain more signal than a simple antenna. We refer to that as the gain of an antenna when we are comparing different size ones. There is no amplifier in an antenna.) The antenna on your Cel-Fi does not amplify the signal, it is in a more favourable place and is better than the antenna in your phone. If you had an external antenna input on your phone then you could connect that antenna to your phone and the phone would be able to connect to the external world.

Your phone does not have an external antenna input so you use the $800 black box to connect the external antenna to your phone. It is the black box that does the amplifying so you can connect the two items (via the RF phone signal.)

Getting back to the OP's problem, he is venturing out to places so remote from the cell towers that there is no measurable signal there. There is nothing there that even something the size of the Parkes telescope would be able to pickup.