Working on the go has its benefits, but also a few practical challenges. I’m sharing the setup I’ve fine-tuned over the years that lets me work comfortably from anywhere – from connectivity and a second monitor to ergonomics.
I spent almost this entire summer away from my office, apart from a few days. A month in Spain and Portugal, and the rest on various trips around the Czech Republic. At the same time, I needed to work wherever I was – calls with the team and clients, emails, digging around in client data, etc.
I work outside the office (or rather, outside my home office, since we’re fully remote at MeasureDesign) quite often, and having the freedom to choose where I work is great. It lets me spend the whole summer with my family and enjoy time with the kids before they grow up.
But besides the benefits, there are downsides too – I need a good internet connection, plus the hardware and conditions that let me be just as productive as I am in my home office. That means a second monitor, a keyboard with Touch ID, or simply some peace and quiet. And since I’m a bit of a nerd about proper workplace ergonomics, I also want to sit properly while I work.
Below, I’ll explain how I deal with all of this and share the setup I’ve fine-tuned over the years that lets me work pretty comfortably from anywhere.
Stable, fast internet has always been the biggest pain point of remote work for me, and what kind of internet I’d get at any given place was always a bit of a lottery. You know how it is: when a place on Booking.com says “free Wi-Fi”, that can mean pretty much anything. For example, fast internet only in certain parts of the apartment (say, right next to the open front door), only by the bathroom window, or perhaps just in the shared areas of the property.
I’ve even stayed somewhere where the internet only worked when the weather was bad (no idea why). Many times, I’ve had to find and restart the router myself (routers are usually mounted somewhere near the ceiling, but unfortunately, accommodation rarely comes with a ladder for guests who need to restart them :). In Italy, I once had to update the firmware on the access point serving the entire guesthouse. That was the easy part. The hard part was explaining to the elderly owner, who didn’t speak English, that I was a “specialista informatico” – basically an IT guy. Which I’m obviously not, but otherwise he wouldn’t have believed I could fix it or let me anywhere near it.
I also remember the days before 4G networks arrived, when the local Wi-Fi was the only way to get online. Things improved a bit with 4G, but you still don’t get a signal everywhere (one bar isn’t enough for a Teams call). And sometimes a suitable place to work is somewhere deep inside the accommodation where the mobile signal simply doesn’t reach.
I think I’ve finally solved the connectivity problem this year – with Starlink. I’d always had my eye on satellite internet that could work anywhere, but in the past it simply wasn’t affordable. These days, I have a STARLINK Mini and I’m pretty happy with it.
The dish costs CZK 4,999 and the Roam plan (unlimited data) costs CZK 2,350 per month. Since I sometimes work from my car, I also use a power adapter for the 12 V socket (CZK 1,600), as well as a router from SpaceX (CZK 1,445).
Connectivity should be available anywhere STARLINK has active coverage. I’ve been using it since spring and haven’t had any connectivity issues. I’ve generally been getting download speeds of between 50 and 150 Mbps with good latency, comparable to my Wi-Fi at home.
My son is crazy about football, so besides work, I also tested it by streaming the World Cup on OnePlay, and both the picture and sound worked without any issues. Btw – people in Spain had a few more weeks to cheer for their national team than we did 😎, and we usually watched their matches outside somewhere among the crowds. For the Spain–France semi-final, for example, we were at the bullring in Toledo. There were a few thousand people there, and two of them had French flags and were cheering for France. Spain went through, and it was awesome.
By the way, the connection is stable even while driving, as long as the dish has a clear view of the sky. I tested it, and it works without any issues through the windshield if the dish is placed on the dashboard (another use case for duct tape :). That’s obviously not great from a safety perspective, though – in a crash, the dish would go flying around the car. I’m sure you could rig up or buy some kind of roof mount, but that’s probably more of a camper van solution. I’ve thought about it for my own car (I have a VW Transporter and often work from it), but I’m going to have a pop-top sleeping roof installed, so I’m leaving this one open for now.
Setting up the dish itself is always a bit of a hassle when you’re travelling – you need to find a spot with a clear view of the sky, run the power cable to it and use the app to align the dish so that it’s facing the northern hemisphere, where it can see the satellites. Once connected, the dish starts providing a Wi-Fi signal that one or more devices can connect to. The power cable included with the dish is several dozen metres long, so you can always get it to a suitable spot, but it’s not ideal – I usually ran it through a window, which someone in the family would occasionally close by accident 🤦♂️. After that happened for the third time, I made a protective sleeve for the cable that I put it into whenever I run it through a window. It’s still a bit of a makeshift solution. It would be better if the dish had its own independent rechargeable power source, and I wouldn’t mind if that made the dish a bit bigger.
Portable power isn’t that easy to solve either, because even the Mini draws quite a lot of power. According to official SpaceX support, you need a power source with at least 100 W + 20 V for reliable operation. In other words, you need more than a regular phone power bank – you need something more powerful. Power sources like this are available, but flying with them can be an issue – some airlines place restrictions on the capacity of power sources you can take on board (anything over 100 W can be a problem), so you need to check with them. I haven’t felt like dealing with that when booking flights so far, so I’ve been using either a cable plugged into a 220 V socket or power from the car adapter. Btw – if you want to work inside your accommodation while the dish is outside and, for whatever reason, the Wi-Fi from the STARLINK dish doesn’t reach indoors, you can connect a network cable with a standard RJ45 connector to the dish, run the cable inside and connect a router to it. In that case, you end up running two cables through the window ☺️.
Btw – one small downside of the STARLINK Mini + Roam plan is that you can’t buy it under a company registration number. There are other products for business customers, but they’re more expensive. One advantage of the Roam plan, though, is that you pay month by month, and if you don’t need it for a particular month, you can simply pause it in the app.
I’m used to working with two monitors and don’t want to give that up when I’m travelling. Besides the work itself, they’re essential for calls with the team or clients. During a call, I need to be able to see the participants clearly on one monitor while sharing whatever I’m showing them on the other (you can do this in Google Meet using picture-in-picture, but that doesn’t work for me, and it sometimes drives me crazy when someone uses it and the floating box happens to cover something I need to see). So I need two monitors, especially for an important call where we’re showing clients data, reports, etc. It lets me see their reactions while presenting comfortably on the second screen. Btw – I generally don’t understand companies where it’s normal to have cameras turned off during calls. I find it rude. Non-verbal communication is important to me too, because it can provide signals or information, especially when the call isn’t in Czech. At MeasureDesign, we always have our cameras on, and if a client has theirs off, I’ll usually just ask them directly to turn it on if we’re having an online call anyway.
When I’m travelling, I use a 17.3" Arzopa portable monitor as my second display. I connect it to my laptop (currently a MacBook Pro, M4) via USB-C, which also powers it. It has a matte screen, which works better for me when I’m working outside, and it weighs less than a kilogram, so it doesn’t take up much of my baggage allowance when I fly.
When my work requires focus, I need peace and quiet. I can’t work with music or the radio playing like some people can. When I have a focus slot, I turn off all notifications and keep only the windows of the apps I’m working in open.
When I’m travelling, I do a lot of my work early in the morning and before noon. In the morning, while the family is asleep, I have focus slots for deep work. Later in the morning, when the kids are already running around me, I do other tasks that don’t require as much concentration (emails, planning, etc.). I get the quiet I need with Peltor Optime shooting earmuffs. I’ve never actually used them for sport shooting, but I work in them pretty often, and they’re especially useful when I’m travelling. They don’t provide absolute silence, but they reduce the noise to a manageable level that lets me concentrate. I’ve been using Peltor shooting earmuffs for years. Back when I worked in an open-plan office at the agency Actum, I used to wear them for part of the day. Some people laughed that I looked like I was working in air traffic control, but besides filtering out the noise, in an open-plan office they also filtered out people who just wanted to chat. Plus, after all these years, I’ve probably built some new neural pathways, because the pressure around my ears when I put the earmuffs on is enough to put me into focus mode ☺️.
When I’m travelling, the desk is more important than the chair. There’s nothing worse than working at a desk that’s too low. Sometimes when I visit an agency or company, I feel sorry for people who don’t pay attention to workplace ergonomics, with their desk and monitor set too low, and I can see how they hunch over when looking at the screen.
I’m a bit obsessive about this. For the Hack Your Way hackathon, where I knew I’d be spending three days at a computer, I actually brought my own height-adjustable desk from Alza in my Transporter. I don’t normally do that, but when I’m driving somewhere where I’ll be working rather than flying, I bring a sturdy camping table with telescopic legs. At the moment, I use a Westfield Performance Aircolite measuring 70 × 100 cm.
It’s a large, stable table, and thanks to the telescopic legs, I can level it on any terrain, adjust the height or raise it high enough to work standing up. Sometimes, when I really need some peace and quiet, I set it up inside the van (the van has an auxiliary heater, a second battery and a 220 V inverter, so I can work there in any weather) and work from there.
Working on the go has its benefits, but also a few practical challenges. I’m sharing the setup I’ve fine-tuned over the years that lets me work comfortably from anywhere – from connectivity and a second monitor to ergonomics.
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