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// LIVE FROM THE 365 CRAFTER

Where you can actually work from a campervan

Our demonstration van runs a real 4G / 5G speed test every five minutes as it drives, and pins the result to the spot. This map ranks the places that measured fastest — the honest version, from one van on one network, read live by Home Assistant.

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By the 365 Techies team · Reviewed 26 September 2026

/ LIVE TELEMETRY

The van, right now

connecting…

Leisure battery

—%

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Solar now

—W

— kWh today

Time to go

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at this draw

Mobile signal

—dBm

— · —

Internet

—Mbps

— · — ms

Near

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town level only

/ THE MAP

Three ways to read it

  • Best spotsEverywhere we ran a speed test, ranked by the download we actually measured. Start here.
  • SpeedEvery reading, coloured by measured download — grey where we passed through without testing.
  • SignalRaw signal strength. Useful, but weaker than it looks — see below for why.
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Readings appear after a short delay — the map shows where the van has been, never where it is right now. Best spots ranks the places our own speed tests measured fastest — how we choose where to park and work.

Why “full bars” can still be slow

Every reading here carries SINR — signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio. Signal strength only tells you how loud the mast is; SINR tells you how much of that is actually usable rather than drowned in interference from other traffic. It’s why a spot showing four bars can crawl while a weaker-looking one flies: our own van has measured 4 bars at 2–12 Mbps parked in one place and 75 Mbps in another. Click any point to see its SINR — roughly 20+ excellent, 13+ good, 5+ fair, below that poor.

Being straight about the numbers: SINR is an instant snapshot and it moves constantly while driving — ours swung between −6 and 26 dB on a single trip — whereas a speed test averages over the seconds it runs. So an individual point can pair a poor SINR with a good speed, or the reverse. The relationship is real, but it shows up properly when the van is parked, which is exactly the case that matters if you’re choosing somewhere to work.

/ WHAT WE'VE MEASURED

Where our van got the fastest internet

Across 2604 speed tests at 134 places over 11 August 2026 to 22 August 2026, covering about 18.5 × 15.3 km, these are the localities where our campervan measured the fastest download. Every figure is a median of real tests taken at that place — not a prediction, not an average of a grid square. A further 108 measured spots are not named here, because they sit too close to where the van is routinely kept — they still count in the totals.

  1. 1101.2 MbpsLower Parkstone36 ms ping · SINR 12 dB · 5G · 45 testsGreat for work
  2. 298.2 MbpsIford35 ms ping · SINR 12 dB · 5G · 40 testsGreat for work
  3. 394.2 MbpsOld Town37 ms ping · SINR 9 dB · 5G · 343 testsGreat for work
  4. 489.0 MbpsEnsbury44 ms ping · SINR 4 dB · 5G · 16 testsGreat for work
  5. 587.4 MbpsLilliput46 ms ping · SINR 1 dB · 5G · 17 testsGreat for work
  6. 676.0 MbpsRingwood50 ms ping · SINR 4 dB · 5G · 22 testsGreat for work
  7. 772.8 MbpsLongfleet39 ms ping · SINR 5 dB · 5G · 111 testsGreat for work
  8. 872.6 MbpsParkstone42 ms ping · SINR 9 dB · 5G · 14 testsGreat for work
  9. 959.5 MbpsSandbanks42 ms ping · SINR 9 dB · 5G · 54 testsGreat for work
  10. 1035.9 MbpsMoordown48 ms ping · SINR 5 dB · 4G+ · 299 testsGreat for work
  11. 1131.5 MbpsTownsend31 ms ping · SINR 17 dB · 5G · 21 testsGreat for work
  12. 1230.0 MbpsThroop and Holdenhurst50 ms ping · SINR 3 dB · 4G+ · 18 testsGreat for work
  13. 1329.8 MbpsParley Cross62 ms ping · SINR 3 dB · 4G · 15 testsGreat for work
  14. 1429.3 MbpsWinton63 ms ping · SINR 6 dB · 4G · 149 testsGreat for work
  15. 1524.2 MbpsBoscombe51 ms ping · SINR 13 dB · 4G+ · 75 testsCalls OK
  16. 1622.1 MbpsCanford Magna124 ms ping · SINR 15 dB · 4G+ · 15 testsCalls OK
  17. 1721.0 MbpsNorthbourne56 ms ping · SINR 15 dB · 4G+ · 18 testsCalls OK
  18. 1820.8 MbpsFerndown Town62 ms ping · SINR 6 dB · 4G · 14 testsCalls OK
  19. 1912.1 MbpsSouthbourne62 ms ping · SINR 4 dB · 4G+ · 30 testsCalls OK
  20. 2010.5 MbpsAvon Castle271 ms ping · SINR 9 dB · 4G+ · 10 testsCalls OK
  21. 2110.1 MbpsLansdowne61 ms ping · SINR 2 dB · 4G+ · 18 testsCalls OK
  22. 228.5 MbpsQueens Park804 ms ping · SINR 9 dB · 5G · 12 testsStruggles
  23. 236.4 MbpsWestbourne76 ms ping · SINR 4 dB · 4G+ · 43 testsStruggles
  24. 245.3 MbpsWest Cliff81 ms ping · SINR 12 dB · 5G · 53 testsStruggles
  25. 254.7 MbpsMuscliff59 ms ping · SINR 9 dB · 5G · 125 testsStruggles
  26. 263.0 MbpsSpringbourne66 ms ping · SINR 0 dB · 4G · 13 testsStruggles

Snapshot taken 2026-09-08 08:59 UTC. The live map above is always current.

/ PASS IT ON

Know someone who works from the road?

Every share puts a measured answer in front of someone who is still guessing which lay-by has signal.

/ METHOD & LIMITS

How we measured it — and what it can’t tell you

The method

  • A Netgear Nighthawk M5 router in the van, on a Three UK SIM, reporting signal strength, quality (SINR), band and network type.
  • Home Assistant records a reading every 30 seconds while the van is out, and runs a full download speed test every 5 minutes.
  • Each reading is pinned to where it was taken. A speed test only counts towards a place if it ran within about seven minutes of that reading.
  • Places are grouped into roughly 220-metre cells and reported as a median, so one lucky or unlucky test can’t set the figure.

The limits, plainly

  • One van, one network. Three UK only. Another network at the same spot may be better or worse, and we have not tested it.
  • A few readings were taken on foot — a phone on the same network, running the same 10 MB test, in places the van can’t reach, such as the beach. They’re drawn as small diamonds, marked “on foot”, and are never pooled into the ranked places or the published figures.
  • One vehicle’s routes. This is where our support van actually goes — not a survey grid. Coverage is uneven by construction.
  • A moment in time. Mobile speed varies with congestion, weather and the mast’s own load. A spot measured once at 09:00 may differ at 18:00.
  • Signal strength is not speed. We publish SINR because a strong-looking signal full of interference is slow — see the explanation above the map.
  • Not a coverage map. Ofcom and the networks publish modelled coverage for the whole country. We publish a small number of real measurements. Those are different things, and theirs is broader.

Credit where it’s due: Dorset Council and Streetwave have measured mobile coverage across the Dorset Council area using their refuse fleet — a far larger survey than ours. Their work does not cover the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area, which is where our van mostly drives.

/ WANT THE DATA?

Ask us for a copy — it’s free

Every reading is available under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Use it in an article, a study, an app or a dissertation — commercially or not — for free. We send it on request rather than as a download, so we know where it’s going and can flag what it does and doesn’t show. The only condition is that you credit us and link back, so readers can check the source for themselves.

Contact us for a copy Summary as JSON

Journalists and researchers: the methodology and its limits are set out above, and we’ll happily answer questions about how it was built or provide the raw figures for a specific place — get in touch.

Credit line to copy:

Data: <a href="https://365techies.co.uk/van-signal-map/">365 Techies campervan signal measurements</a> (CC BY 4.0)

/ PUT IT ON YOUR SITE

Embed the live map, free

Campsite, forum, blog or news site — paste this and you get the live map, updating as our van keeps measuring. No sign-up, no key, no tracking of your readers.

Preview it

Please keep the credit line underneath the map — that’s the whole licence. It tells your readers where the numbers came from and lets them check our method for themselves.

/ HOW IT WORKS

Measured, not modelled

  • The van measures

    A router in the campervan reads the live 4G/5G signal — strength, quality, band, network — and Home Assistant logs it every 30 seconds while driving, running a full download speed test every five minutes.

  • Tagged to the spot

    Each reading is pinned to exactly where it was taken, so you see the real signal at a real place — not a coverage prediction averaged over a grid square.

  • Ranked, not traced

    Each reading lands on the map as its own point — green where it was fast, red where it wasn’t — and the places that tested best are ranked for you. We plot the measurements, not the journey.

Built by 365 Techies with Home Assistant and a 5G router — the same off-grid monitoring we build for campervans, boats and remote sites.