How to get FAST RV Internet in 2022: Use any SIM - Winegard or Pepwave
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- How to get fast RV internet in 2022 using the gear you probably already have. The most common questions we get relating to Full Time RV Living are "what's the best rv internet" and "what WIFI is best". Well, in this video we explain to you how we get online using the cell services that we already have using AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
Many RVs have a Winegard antenna pre-installed. We'll show you how you can take the SIM card out of your phone, pop it into the Winegard router (or other mobile router) and save on the premium pricing with just an inexpensive SIM card adapter that you can get off Amazon here for about $5.
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00:00 - Intro
00:22 - How We Get Internet On The Road
00:50 - Which Cell Provider is Best?
01:05 - The Calyx Institute
01:34 - AT&T Business Plan
02:06 - SIM Cards and Adapters
04:36 - Winegard 360 and Winegard Connect
05:17 - Installing the SIM card in the Winegard Connect Router
06:44 - Configuring the Winegard Connect Router With a Phone SIM Card
08:55 - Carrier APN Numbers
10:37 - Testing Internet Speed
11:02 - Pepwave Transit Duo & Poynting Antenna
14:10 - Outro
Jennifer and Luke MacNeil are full time rv nomads living in their 36 foot fifth wheel and traveling the country in search of the most beautiful places and interesting people that our country has to offer.
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Great video, so glad I watched, almost paid for winegard service
This is fantastic content. You cleared up so many questions I had. Thank you!!!
Thanks Kelly! Glad it could help get you on your way!
Awsome video thanks for the video!
Thank you! You’re very welcome!
Great Information!!! thank you for this video
You’re very welcome!
I have tmoble and just getting on the road, this was helpful. I'll know more of what I need in the coming months. More of a West Coast girl so I'll be hitting places like Arizona, Montana, State's West of the Mississippi.
You’re gonna love it. Arizona is probably my favorite place, with Utah a close second. New Mexico is also awesome.
Don’t stress and remember… there’s more than one way to do everything.
Glad it helped you!
Pretty Cool Matrix lol ..Great insight! We're weekenders so our Mofi is awesome with our T-Mobile here on the East of the country..
Thanks! It sounds like T Mo has really been stepping up their game lately.
Super helpful, concise info. Thank you, sub'd
Thanks! Glad you got something out of it!
So I have the wineguard blanket antenna on top but nothing inside my RV. What would I need to purchase?
LOL, love the POS statement. Our RV came with a similar unit called WiFi ranger and it is total junk. Just installed a Pepwave BR1 5G today and it's pretty bad ass.
The pepwave stuff just smokes the winegard
Thank you for the video. It was very good and informative. I wanted to ask when I take my At&t SIM card from my phone. Can I use that same phone with another SIM card of another number and use phone. Will it disrupt or affect my Winegard router so it don't work anymore? thank you again.
Yes, you could, provided the phone is unlocked. It wont effect the winegard.
Curious which Pepwave that you have. I like this setup very much and want to replicate it on my rig.
Hi. This is the pepwave max transit duo cat12.
Great video. Do you need a hotspot for the cellular SIM to work in the Winegard?
No, you don’t. The winegard becomes the access point.
I read that Tracfone (Straight Talk) is now part of Verizon. They have different sums for ATT/ TMobile and Verizon services. The closest tower to my home is Verizon. My question is will this work in the Winegard Gateway? Thanks great video.
We don't have Tracfone, so can't speak to that. I would assume it would. Thank you!
Very helpful! Thank you.
Quick question regarding the access point ID. If we have multiple devices (i.e. iphones, ipads, pc's etc.) and I want to have all of them automatically connect quickly, would it be best to set up a router/hotspot so that once the Winegard is connected (either wifi or LTE), all our devices will automatically connect via the router? If so, can that be done with Winegard? Where you can plug a router into the Winegard system?? I appreciate any help.
You won't have to do anything special for that functionality. The Winegard *is* a router and will present access points just like your home router would, and your devices will remember them like they would any wifi network, unless they're configured not to.
A benefit of this is that your devices are connected to the winegard. If you don't have internet - they can still talk to each other. If you connect it to LTE, the winegard will share that to all the connected devices. If you connect it to a wifi network like at a campground, it will share that.
You connect all your devices to the Winegard and then you connect the Winegard to either another Wifi network, or LTE to get out to the internet.
If you're bouncing around from campground to campground - you only change the setting on the winegard.
Use a tack it works as well.
Which iPhone is that? It’s huge. N I have a wineguard antenna but a sim??? I’m gonna look
Yes, it’s the iPhone 12 Pro Max. I like it 💚
i have the Winegard antenna and just purchased the gateway router. We are very seasonal and have not wanted to purchase a separate plan. i really like the idea of pulling the sim out of the phone with a couple exceptions. 1. do you not find is a hassle to remove it all the time? 2. we recently left Verizon for Spectrum /Charter running though Verizon. Have you heard if that will work the same?
It is definitely a hassle, but incredibly convenient at the same time. We have 2 sim cards. We switch them out depending on which one works better where we are. That way there’s always one in the phone and the rig.
I would think the charter vzw would still work, but you might have to do some hunting to find the correct APN.
Hey man, great video! We are just beginning our full time RV adventure and are trying to learn all that we can on the fly. Like you we have a Winegard already on the roof of out RV. I purchased a SIM card from T-Mobile to use in the Winegaurd as a hot spot, but it was a 10G plan and the data was used really fast. We have T-Mobile for our cell phones and have unlimited data plans on them. My question is if I add a line to my unlimited data plan, and just put that SIM card in the Winegard instead of a phone, does that mean I would have unlimited internet on the Winegard? Sorry if you have answered this question a million times, I just to verify if what I think is true really is true..... Thanks for the help brother!!!!!
Oh that’s awesome. Welcome!
That worked for us with both ATT and VZW through Visible - so probably, but we can’t say for sure about TMo. They seem less uppity, so I would guess they don’t care. You’ll have to find the correct APN for the carrier.
Alternatively, you can connect to your phone hotspot’s wifi with the winegard and share it that way, if you were so inclined.
@@MacNeilsOnWheels Thank you so much for the quick reply! I will give it a shot and let you know.
We just finished a long trip, Florida to Utah to Maine to Mass. We were able to use Karen’s T-mobile cell service as our hotspot almost everywhere except northern Maine. In contrast, my Visible plan was almost useless everywhere except northern Maine.
A question though - removing the SIM card from your phone renders it useless, doesn’t it? Or am I missing something? I guess you could swap it back out when you are done using WiFi. Or add another device to your plan.
If you remove the sim from the phone, you can still use the phone when connected to wifi, with wifi calling - but if you leave the rig, yes - the phone would have no service. Still lots of uses for a phone with no service though ;)
thanks for your video! They ask for IMEI number to activate my t-mobile prepaid sim card, but i was planning to put it in the winegard and put it back in the phone if the winegard doesn't work... Do you know if i will be able to do that if I "register" the sim card with the winegard IMEI?? thanks!!
I haven’t had that experience. With VZW and ATT there is no need to register the IMEI. We haven’t tried to use a prepaid sim.
@@MacNeilsOnWheels ok thanks! The winegard imei is fully compatible with t-mobile… so I guess I will try it!
We have 5G phones/SIM cards. My option under Internet Access was Cellular and not 4GLTE. It worked the first day but now says Denied Cellular Access under Cellular Signal. Any help is appreciated!
I haven’t been in that situation, sorry. I’d double check your APN settings, maybe there is a different one that works for you.
Could you use a SIM card from an IPad? I have a service for unlimited for $10.00 a month. Would really be nice if I could swap it out. Thank you for your videos, I really enjoy binging on them!
That’s awesome. Thank you so much. The ipad sim should work, though new ipads dont have one. They use an esim
Will this work on a netgear Night Hawk mobile router
No, a netgear nighthawk doesn’t support cell networks.
Can I simply order a second sim from visible for an older phone, and then put it in my Winegard 2.0? If that would work there’s no need to remove it, or am I missing something?
I don't see why not, but we haven't done it. Let us know how it works!
If you are using the SIM from your cell phone, are you able to use the cell phone by connecting to the wifi? And if so, then I guess you are restricted to inside the camper or close by to use the phone.
Yes, that is the case. You can use calling over Wifi. It would work but if you’re doing this we would recommend to have multiple carriers and multiple sims. As you move around, verizon will work well where ATT doesn’t, and you can manage this by using the lesser performing one in your phone.
Do you know if it pulls off cellular data or your hot spot data on your plan?
It pulls from whatever plan the sim card is attached to.
Mine does have the antenna but not the white box where can I get it?
The winegard? You could get one of those online, or in most rv shops.
Why did yall stop posting videos . They were so good. Hope all is well
Appreciate that. Life just switches up and we’ve been parked a long time.
how can you use your cellphone if your sim card is in the winegard ??
You can enable WiFi calling and make calls through the Winegard.
I'm trying to use an att prepaid plan in my winegard and it says the internet access requires a login before use. Have you seen this before?
I haven’t seen that, but we’ve never used a prepaid plan. Generally, all you need is the correct APN.
Did you get this to work? I'm considering trying with Mint. I figure I might need to do initial setup in a phone then transfer to winegard, but not sure if it will work..
Love your video. Great information . You took the sim card out of your cell phone for the winegard. Are you able to use your cell phone only in the RV?
Thanks! We keep multiple cell plans with multiple sims so there’s always one for both devices. Otherwise yes, you’d have use your phone over WIFI in the rig.
@@MacNeilsOnWheels thanks for the information
We just purchased our 1st RV and trying to learn the ropes. Happy New Year!
@@rosewegner5975 awesome! Safe and happy travels!
If you have unlimited internet on your cell and use your Sim in the wineguard does it use the unlimited data or does it act like a Hotspot and limited your data usage?
It uses your normal cell plan data allocation… so far, in our experience.
@@MacNeilsOnWheels nice thanks for the info this was a helpfully video. I was going to try my Sim from my tablet actualey and that may or may not work but we shall see.
Update I did this using my sim from my tablet and yes it did use it as Hotspot data. But it was still well worth it. Well sort of. We didn't use a lot of data but left everything connected one night and that night every tablet and phone we had with us got a update pushed and they auto updated and that ate up all our data. But we had a 2nd tablet with a sim threw that in and bam good to go again. And we were fine after that one update push.
@@MacNeilsOnWheels thanks for your quick reply! We are weekend warriors and didn’t want to spend a fortune on internet. I just added a line as this still is a huge savings and we don’t have to keep popping in and out. Thanks again for the great info!
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