Another excellent video! Please keep them coming. Any thoughts on this system vs Cradle Point? I think Starlink is the ultimate choice one day, but until we reach that true mobile subscription option, this sounds like the next best thing.
Hi Brian. I have to confess I have never heard of CradlePoint so I did some homework on them and I like what I see. From a distance, at least, it looks very comparable to Peplink. Being bought by Ericsson sure wouldn't hurt either. I'm afraid I can't speak to it beyond that. I will do some more digging and see what else I can find. I appreciate the info. Thanks!
Your videos are very informative so thank you for that. I live in Florida but will be living on the road in an RV. Is Starlink the go too or something like what you talked about in this video? We will be hitting areas like BLM lands and National Parks. I'm in sales and all of my calls come through an internet dialer so i need something reliable. Much appreciated.
Thank you very much for the kind words. Very appreciated! I can't answer directly, but can maybe provide some color that will help you. Whether Starlink is a good solution kinda depends on which way you look at it. If you are hoping it will be available in specific spots as you wander the country, then the answer is it will be very hard since Starlink is still unavailable for the vast majority of the United States. (Near as I can tell.) With the new Rocket, SpaceX is sending up Starlink satellites at a much faster rate than just a few months ago, but looking it at it on the whole of the U.S., it's still very rare. Though not available on the whole, there are quite a few spots if you are willing to aim for them. In other words, if you were to plan your trips around the slots, Starlink is an insanely good solution. I just finished 4 days outside the Sand Dunes in Colorado where there was absolutely zero cell service and I not only took calls through Starlink (the wifi version), but I even did zoom calls. It was flawless. The solution in this video (Office Quality Internet...) uses a router to combine different solutions including cellular and wifi (e.g. campground wife). It can absolutely be used to add Starlink to the mix. Starlink comes with its own wifi router so you don't need the PepWave I show here. It will work completely on its own. But if you get the cable adaptor for Starlink, you can plug the Starlink router into this Pepwave router and now you will have failover between everything. Personally I am finding that either Starlink is working or cellular is working. Maybe it is where I am camping/traveling, but I have yet to have both. As Starlink becomes more available, though, it will make more sense to run it through something like this PepWave router. Running the Starlink wifi router through another router (like the Pepwave) will require you to put the Starlink router in bridge mode so that it acts as a pass through. Not hard, but there are some aspects to watch out for (too much to type here). If you need really reliable internet on the road, you will need to pay for multiple solutions and pull them together with something like the solution I presented in this video. Anything less, and you will probably need to shape your plans around what's available. Hope this helps.
Another excellent video! Please keep them coming. Any thoughts on this system vs Cradle Point? I think Starlink is the ultimate choice one day, but until we reach that true mobile subscription option, this sounds like the next best thing.
Hi Brian. I have to confess I have never heard of CradlePoint so I did some homework on them and I like what I see. From a distance, at least, it looks very comparable to Peplink. Being bought by Ericsson sure wouldn't hurt either. I'm afraid I can't speak to it beyond that. I will do some more digging and see what else I can find. I appreciate the info. Thanks!
Your videos are very informative so thank you for that. I live in Florida but will be living on the road in an RV. Is Starlink the go too or something like what you talked about in this video? We will be hitting areas like BLM lands and National Parks. I'm in sales and all of my calls come through an internet dialer so i need something reliable. Much appreciated.
Thank you very much for the kind words. Very appreciated!
I can't answer directly, but can maybe provide some color that will help you. Whether Starlink is a good solution kinda depends on which way you look at it. If you are hoping it will be available in specific spots as you wander the country, then the answer is it will be very hard since Starlink is still unavailable for the vast majority of the United States. (Near as I can tell.) With the new Rocket, SpaceX is sending up Starlink satellites at a much faster rate than just a few months ago, but looking it at it on the whole of the U.S., it's still very rare.
Though not available on the whole, there are quite a few spots if you are willing to aim for them. In other words, if you were to plan your trips around the slots, Starlink is an insanely good solution. I just finished 4 days outside the Sand Dunes in Colorado where there was absolutely zero cell service and I not only took calls through Starlink (the wifi version), but I even did zoom calls. It was flawless.
The solution in this video (Office Quality Internet...) uses a router to combine different solutions including cellular and wifi (e.g. campground wife). It can absolutely be used to add Starlink to the mix. Starlink comes with its own wifi router so you don't need the PepWave I show here. It will work completely on its own. But if you get the cable adaptor for Starlink, you can plug the Starlink router into this Pepwave router and now you will have failover between everything. Personally I am finding that either Starlink is working or cellular is working. Maybe it is where I am camping/traveling, but I have yet to have both. As Starlink becomes more available, though, it will make more sense to run it through something like this PepWave router.
Running the Starlink wifi router through another router (like the Pepwave) will require you to put the Starlink router in bridge mode so that it acts as a pass through. Not hard, but there are some aspects to watch out for (too much to type here).
If you need really reliable internet on the road, you will need to pay for multiple solutions and pull them together with something like the solution I presented in this video. Anything less, and you will probably need to shape your plans around what's available.
Hope this helps.
It does help. Thank you very much. Keep up the great work!