Advice: Cloud computing and going off-grid for five months

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Hi Blenderers

I have to go off-grid for the next five months partly location scouting across europe and partly building a ‘legend’ geo-dome community in Spain for a tv series I am creating.

While writing and hustling is my main force of focus, I also am also a digital artist and want to be able to work on some projects while I am off-grid. I have a Surface Pro which actually handles low-poly modelling pretty well but obviously its restrictive.

Looking at Cloud computing solutions that will work off mobile data 4G/5G for 1-4hrs a day.

hopefully I will be able to get 35-75Mb/s most of the time (although Croatia is an unknown)
and possibly wifi when I can get it.

I have looked at Vagon which looks very reasonable although info is sketchy as to what a good bitrate is for low latency.

Anyone got any experience with this and any provider? General opinions?

Thanks peeps.

Tim

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Cool idea, this actually makes sense to avoid up-front investment on a new beefy laptop.

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It depends more on the cpu, cause it packs and unpack the transfered bitmap of the screen.
So even with a good connection you might get it slow cause the remote pc may have enough power to handle blender and pack the screen data, your local surface might get in trouble with unpack the screen, specially if a big part of the screen changes. Thats for windows rdp, not sure if other like vnc have better performance. I guess you have to drop screen resolution to low one like 1280 or less.

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I have had some good experiences running Blender on Paperspace before.

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This is very interesting. I guess testing with a project file is the only way to verify performance.

Thanks for the info, appreciated.

Tim

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Excellent. Thanks for the recommendation. Will give it a test run for sure. Seems well scaled and reasonably priced.

Tim

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One of the most important things I found to be able to work is the latency, when using the USA servers it was unusable, but using the closer European servers it felt like I was using my own computer. Also like rigoletto said you should still have a decent pc to decode the realtime video stream, an old laptop will heat up just as much as when using Blender while newer ones preferably with a GPU will handle it just fine.