RV Internet Showdown: T-Mobile 5G vs Starlink - Which is the Best Option for Your RV
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- RV Internet Showdown: T-Mobile 5G vs Starlink - Which is the Best Option for Your RV
Are you tired of unreliable internet connections while on the road in your RV? Look no further than this RV internet showdown! In this video, we compare T-Mobile's 5G network and Starlink to determine which option is the best for staying connected while traveling. We dive into the pros and cons of each option, including coverage areas, speeds, and costs, to help you make an informed decision about which internet service provider is right for your RV. Don't let slow or spotty internet hold you back from enjoying your travels - tune in to find out which option comes out on top!
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Hi, we are Ryan and Lauren. Husband and Wife Team along with our 3 Dogs, Klondike, Bailey, and Mishka are traveling America while living fulltime in our Grand Design Solitude 390RK-R 5th Wheel
We love our Tmobile 5g ! Had it since Dec. Works great for us! Our trip to Fl and Back it worked flawlessly!
We do like the T-Mobile 5G as well, for us it has seemed more inconsistent for some reason...
Tmobile if you look around where signal strength is strongest in camper and plug it in I wonder if it’s the same vs you setting it up dead center of your camper not near windows
same, got rid of my $120 per month Starlink. I pay less than $50 for T-mobile, no satellite, no external wires, no rain issues.
If you read the instructions it’s tells you to use their recommended app to find out where the 5g tower is. Once you find it set the t-mobile device by a window which would be facing the tower. Just by doing that, went from 35 to 40 down to 76 to 84 down. Went from 3 bars to 4 bars. Big difference.
Our problem is never the downloads. We were getting plenty on that, our issue is mostly on the upload speeds. Moved around change locations done all kinds of stuff never seems to be more than about five or six.
We have the T-mobile home 5G for our RV and it work great what has helped ours tremendously is we have the Wee Boost cellar antenna inside and out.I also heard that High Boost antenna works great with this system as well.
We have defiantly thought of trying that out! Thanks for the info!
Since day one of getting our T-Mobile Home Internet, with the exception of Ruskin, FL our internet has run great. We stream everything to include TV. It does work quite well in our RV as full-timers. I will never get Starlink based on a huge hardware price and monthly service. We do have redundant MiFi jet packs (T-Mobile and Verizon) but rarely have to use them. We get signal from T-Mobile Home Internet in our truck when we are going down the road as well. Swear by it!
Put the T-Mobile near a window and maybe divide up your usage between devices for better upload speeds.
We’ll talk in Athens.
So the T Mobile has done well with downloads speeds after a little bit, but the with full bars on an off peak time it to about 12 hours to upload the sever weather video. It could just be the odd semi dead spot we were in. Looking forward to it!
im having trouble finding an address that is accepted by t mobil. i have rural property in southern oregon. t mobil does work at my property. but its a matter of finding an acceptable address. i'm wondering how full time rv people are finding an address to use? The lady at t mobil said i just need an address. they dont seam to care that you actually live there.. also worth mentioning. you can add external antennas the the t mobil unit. theres a few videos on the subject here on youtube. by doing that it really improves things.
@@kevintakalo427 Having you tried your mailing address (that would be a physical location)?
I'am Your Newest Subscriber . I had Problems When I First Got Mine I Called Customer Service And They Got It Going Really Fast I Live In Clearwater Florida I Have Seen 275 Download And 100 Upload The Tower Is 2 Blocks from My House Upload My 4k You Tube Videos Really Fast. Guy Set It Up At The Store Built Didn;t Go Fast Till I Called Customer Service And They Set It Up Right To Go Fast
Glad they got it working for you!
I installed the Ranger Osprey router in my momentum and use the built in Air 360+ with ATT SIM card in it. Reason I went that way was because ATT 4G LTE has coverage everywhere. I was just at a race boon-docking in Perrin TX and it worked like a champ. Forgot to do a speed test though. My T-mobile cell phone with 5G couldn’t even connect. Had to connect to to the Osprey ATT wifi to get it work. Now with that being said I don’t live I’m rig so 4G is plenty for us on race weekends all over north Texas area. If I did I would go starlink for sure. And if you dig deeper you will find that T Mobile 5G is slower in many areas than ATT 4G LTE. This past weekend was a prime example of that. Next race is in Jacksboro Texas and I will do some speed tests there and see how it comes out. And hey, internet testing is exciting!
Oh and when I spoke with T Mobile they told me the same thing. That the device you just picked up could not be mobile in an RV. The Osprey does support T mobile SIM cards but ATT kicks there butt with coverage.
Interesting, it's so funny how different things work for different people! we have a similar setup with an ATT SIM card and our pep wave and it is really bad... Now we have an old grandfathered ATT sim so its cheap enough to use it as a backup.
I have t-mobile and starklink and with Speedtest I’ve gotten 200-300 up and 20-70 down. I’m in Amarillo.
But there has been times we’re I get in to 20s down and single digits up.
Starlink works best with an open sky.
I have seen the same thing!
Which was better
We are part time RV'ers and getting ready to head out from Florida's Gulf Coast (Ian Ground Zero) to cooler northern climes for the summer. Just picked up T-Mobile 5G Gateway. StarLink Roam doesn't make sense for us...yet. We are currently in a 'fringe' 5G area. Good performance so far from the T-Mobile Gateway both inside our cinderblock home and the RV. I definitely noticed better signal and higher speed when moving the Gateway closer to the window in our Alliance Paradigm 385FL. UW 83', Go Pack Go! (Shareholder and Lambeau Sec. 136 season ticket holder).
Very cool, yea we bit the bullet on starling so at least now we have it but T-Mobile has been pretty solid! It's crazy just by moving the "tower" around the signal changes you can get, another option is to get a cell phone signal booster! Go Pack Go (Shareholder & probably 50 years out on the season ticket waiting list 😜)
@@Millers_in_Motion I was 35 years on the wait list but worth the wait.
When did you get on it? My folks put me on when I was 8, 40 now!
While TMobile is a ton cheaper than Starlink in regards to up front equipment cost AND monthly fees... your not going to get the upload speeds your wanting/needing, you need to remember "home internet customers" are deprioritized during times of congestion and will notice slower speeds than mobile customers. Thus, you will see potentially see degradation in Teams/Zoom calls as well if the closest tower is overloaded during business hours..
With Starlink, while not still not guaranteed, you should see 10-20Mbps in download speeds. Remember, the upfront cost and the monthly fees will be tax deductible for you as a business expense.
Also, as a backup to the Starlink, you could also take your laptop and run into a place like Starbucks and just connect for the quick uploads.
Great video!
Thanks Michael, Definitely seeing the upload stuff with T-Mobile you where talking about. The word Starlink download we have seen was closer to 45 MBPS, averaging
closer to 110 !
@@Millers_in_Motion Glad to hear that with starlink. We live in N Ga, and will be traveling more than just "weekend getaways" soon. While I retired after selling my last company, my wife still wants to work and has a high profile job running 6 of the 9 finance departments for a listed tech company. They announced at the beginning of this year that they have decided to go 100% work from home - so we will be able to take month long trips across the US... so internet will be vital for MS Team calls... which means that I am doing all this research on main system and backup systems for redundancy... to add to this, any travel day that is doing a work day means she must have high speed reliable internet - MS Teams, Cisco VPN, etc... as we are driving down the road... thus I know Class A for sure, and just have to figure out which will be better a load balanced mobile solution or starlink or a combination of the two...
Great job so far on RV Unplugged...
DUDE! I've got to say it. You are like the long-lost brother of Michael Moore! (BTW - Great video. Thanks!)
IS that a good or bad thing?!? Thanks for watching!
@@Millers_in_Motion Well...I guess it depends on your views of Mr. Moore. I think it's a good thing, anyway. Lol
I got as 130+ gbps download on my T-Mobile gateway this morning from our RV park.
It definitely can be a great solution!
Agree, the Apple TVs have to Go, yes, Go and Right, you can Test Drive T-Mobile Home Internet, if need…
When I had it in Knoxville tn with full bars it was always 400-600 down 10-30up which is shockingly great it was doing better than the fiber I was paying 90 a month for with AT&T but I moved and it was not good in Rochester Ny lol
Yea, that’s just the downside to cell across the board, nothing is really guaranteed in the next location!
What chased me away from starlink is the initial investment is high, and they charge a premium for a roaming service to give you a lower priority.
I defiantly get it, we just decided to take the plunge to see if it worked out or not!
What is a pep wave? I’m not sure what to get. I do have T-Mobile on my phone plan, but not sure if this internet router works good on my new house I just brought. It’s in a town just outside the university city of Athens, GA. But I’m also interested in Starlink. But it’s home equipment is kind of expensive.
So the PepWave router is really more of a mobil u nit that you can pup a Cell SIM card into and use it as an antenna, as well as a regular router.
You need to move it around and get a better signal. We get 3 bars and get 140 to 170mbps, about 7mbps upload. Doesn’t matter who you use, if you don’t get a better signal, your not gonna get good internet.
Unfortunately I did, and still couldn’t get it to speed up, our cell service wasn’t the best across the board
There's a lot of people don't know s*** about anything. He needs to move it around.
It depends on how close to the towers you are. I get 5 bars and 5-600 mbps down and 40 up regularly with a low of 150 mbps occasionally.
Honestly because of where we are at the moment Starlink has become our primary
What you might do is, use the T-Mobile home, for all your devises,and your hotspots, for internet work. Or vice-versa.
That's kinda what the Pep Wave does automatically for us!
I feel like you didn’t try to trouble shoot the T-Mobile internet because deep down you wanted the starlink. Let’s just keep it real you seem like a tech bro and you got to have the most out there kind of stuff I’m a trucker who uses T-Mobile internet it works damn near perfect and I game.
Well our jobs require us to stay connected so yes we have all of internet options. The T mobile so VERy depended on location. We use it alot now
@@Millers_in_Motion hey I can admit when I’m wrong
Starlink Roam is now capped at 5-50 Mbps so you won't get a ton more speed from it. But it will work in more remote places. Starlink also has an in motion use dish but it's $2500 dollars for the dish plus mounting
Interesting because we are constantly seeing speeds in the 130's to 180's
@@Millers_in_Motion Do you have residential or the new Roam plan?
We have Roam.
@@Millers_in_Motion ok maybe I'm totally wrong then. I swear I just saw it on their website but obviously not lol
I’m supper courteous now!
T mobile needs a cell signal. Where i go, there's usually no cell signal. Starlink is the only source that works virtually anywhere.
Thats why we have both!
Wouldn’t you think the upload speed has to do with your port settings or something since the upload is faster without it
I went thru all that with T Mobile and that was as goos as I was getting in that location...
So isn't the T-mobile 5g home internet tied to a single address? Do the TOS allow the use of this system in an RV and multiple locations?
It is for the initial setup, but we have traveled with ours and as long as we have T-Mobile cell service it has worked!
An i the only one getting crazy fast speeds? I'm getting 750 down and 60 up. Couldn't be happier.
So much of it is location based! We don’t see those speeds but still love our starlink!
What about Nomad Internet? I've heard good things about it.
I have heard good things about it, ultimately it is still a cell data plan that is purchased by a 3rd party to use on what ever network they buy into, So Nomad Internet, Mobile Must Have, Internet on the Go. They all kinda do the same thing, and in my opinion are a little pricy for what it is. Starlink is expensive too but it is a little unique.
You did it all wrong.. You need to setup 2 more connections. One for 2.4GHz and one for 5GHz Wireless... As by default they use mixed mode. As the T Mobile actually has 3 connections. The 3rd being the 5G Cellular..
The 2.4GHz is super fast on any Ultra tower...
We will give that a try and see if we can get a better upload speed
I looked into T-Mobile and was told by a store associate that they expect you/the equipment to remain stationary...it is not intended for mobility. Through "pings" they can tell if you're moving and will cancel your service.
Interesting, I asked that question and was told it can move... When was the last time you talked to someone? Maybe something has changed in the mean time.
@@Millers_in_Motion So he is partially right. I just checked into it recently. They used to not allow you to move it. They do now but you are supposed to update your address each time. I've had Tmo for years and have found that they generally do not enforce a lot of their rules. One thing you have to keep in mind too is your data on T-Mobile home Internet is always deprioritized no matter where you are so the more traffic in an area the worse speed your gonna get.
I haven't used it but I've heard people mention a service called Unlimitedville. It's expensive but it's unlimited and you can choose T-Mobile, AT&T, or Verizon. $150 a month for Tmo and $199 for Verizon and AT&T
@@Millers_in_Motion yeah I was just wanting to get one for my semi truck but the sale rep is saying its not allowed so idk
You are correct.. If you move it. You have to inform T Mobile. If they notice your moving from tower to tower. You will get a one time bill for $400.00 then they cut your service. As you broke the EULA..
Why I suggest you get anything in writing from T Mobile..
I was told today that the device is not Geo Locked with no plans to change this. They just aren’t allowed to advertise it working in other locations.
Looking at options to have a router that will connect to both and load balance based on signal as needed so we don’t need to keep swapping back and forth. Suggestions anyone?
So we have the pep wave, Max transit duo, it does exactly what your talking about. You set whatever services you have in a priority level and it just does things for you!
Check out Mobile Must Have, they have a ton of great information, that’s where we purchased ours from.
So when T Mobile states that this device will only work at a particular location/address is that not true? In other words, is it portable? I've seen conflicting info online and just want to make sure before I try it out.
🤷♂️ we where not told that, it owns worked At 3 locations now. We are on a business plan so maybe that has something to do with.
@@Millers_in_Motion Okay, thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it.
Anytime!
TMO Home Internet is very much position sensitive. It must be near a window, but even the angle of the box is sensitive as the antennas are somewhat directional.
No it's not had the modern here in the van by a metal wall and it still was fast
Says can only use at your home address. Are they enforcing that now ?
I spoken with reps from T-Mobile now and they have all said the same thing, they can only guarantee it works at your listed address because it’s been tested the other Nettwerk map. Now, with that being said, we are on a business plan, and there may be a difference between the business and home versions.
Thanks. When we get to Colorado May 1st we can order it for our daughter address but not RV Park address. Thought I might try it.
Yes they are. T Mobile cut off our access to internet when we went to the FL Keys. Will be returning it when we get back home. E
Did they give you notification? Also where you on a home or business plan.
If your doing Roam there really isn’t any “service address” now if your doing residential the you will need that address.
Start link. Not a good idea. Really is not ideal for motorhome. You still run into dead spots. Nothing to mention. Depending on what the weather is outside it's a crazy and way too expensive
So we typically stay in areas with dead cell service , and yes it is expensive but our jobs require being connected. We have loved it and been worth the money to be able to camp in remote places and not have to sacrifice work!
actually you can buy starlink and pay only 50 a month through best buy as of when i’m writing this comment
Not sure where your seeing you can get service for $50 a month thru Best Buy, you can buy the equipment at BB but all service is still done thru Starlink at the time of install so the rate is based on what package you select. We are on ROAM for $150 a month
well i’m not 100% sure but it says the normal fee for the starlink then next to in 50 dollars a month
never mind i’m stupid that’s the payment plan💀
@b3anz713 I thinks if you do the affirm financing thing. I went thru the motions just to check and your still subject to what ever monthly Starlink is charging at the time
@@b3anz713 No worries!! For a second I thought I was WAY over paying!!
Your test is somewhat bogus. You should have moved the T Mobile unit around in the trailer to find the best location.
If your going to look at it like that then the only person this "test" worked for is us, because well service in massively different from one location to another. Also I did move it around on camera, it was the same for the location we were in. We still have and use it, but the uploads still art as good as Starlink. At the end of the day off you going to work and need internet full time on the road you will need multiple options, these 2 are really strong.
You mean 400 mbps not gigs
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