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hi this is eric from livinlight.net and mobilemusthave.com if you're feeling fairly overwhelmed by all of the choices on our online store and you've been all over the net looking for just a way for you know good reliable internet in your rv or boat this video is for you stay tuned and we'll show you what all the options are [Music] so the number one comment we get on our blog and on our store when it comes to mobile internet is we've done a ton of research and we're honestly more confused than ever what do i buy so with mobile must have we've actually done a lot of the legwork for you by putting together our mobile internet bundles and today we're going to be talking about the various options that are available starting from the most economical bundle solution and moving our way up to our most advanced bundle now before we go through each of the bundles i want to talk through some basic terminology so that when i start discussing the features of each of the bundles they make sense if you want to skip forward from this part that's fine look below and there'll be chapter links for each of the bundles if you're interested in learning what specific features are in each unit but if you have time to watch the whole video i strongly recommend it especially if you're new to mobile internet the first basic i want to go over with you guys is wireless internet technology because it comes in a lot of flavors most people have heard of cellular wireless technology and a lot of people in their homes if you have like a cable modem and the cable company provided you with a with a cable box that has wi-fi or mesh wi-fi all these things that's a totally different type of internet wireless technology that does exist so i want to talk to you guys about some of the differences and some of the terminology for each that can be very confusing because they sound very similar first let's talk about cellular now in its most basic cellular technology for this video we're just going to keep it simple it's broadcasting from a cell tower right so that's what we're going to refer to as cellular technology there's quite a few different technologies that cellulars developed over the years you may have heard of 2g if you're older like me then there was 3g then there was 4g and now the companies are starting to talk about 5g well the g to keep this video quick and simple really just stands for generation it's the next generation of that cellular wireless technology and they're figuring out how to provide more bandwidth through that wireless spectrum either by getting access to more spectrums or through newer cooler technology for the purpose of this video and for all of our current mobile internet solutions as of 2020 we're going to be talking about 4g lte and lte advanced technology if you're concerned or worried about 5g honestly we do have some videos that you can watch on that but it's really developed and designed right now for urban environments where you're looking at feet from the cell tower not miles so i wouldn't be too concerned about that a kind of top the line 4g lte advanced modem can support quite a fast speed 900 plus megabits is what the modem itself is capable of doing so 5g while it sounds really good and it's going to be awesome for you know nascar events probably in six months where we've got hundreds of thousands of people all in a small stadium it's not really going to hit the rv industry probably until most of these technologies or your trip is already over with if you really care about 5g we do have some modems that you can message us about that have removable uh slots where you can put in a 5g modem but again i'm going to be honest with you you're going to be spending a lot of money on a technology that's just not ready yet so i recommend you just stick with what we're going to talk about in the video now 4g doesn't necessarily always come all in the same flavor there's original 4g there's 4g lte i'm not going to kind of overwhelm you with all that stuff but it's important for you to focus on the modem that you use to connect to the 4g network right now there's kind of four common modems that we see on the market and they're designated by what's called categories or cat so you might hear terminology like a cat 6 modem which means a category 6 modem or a cat 18 modem so i'll tell you briefly the difference of those and we'll go into it a little bit more in each of the bundles a cat 4 modem which is very common in some of the consumer grade internet products that we don't sell some of the older wi-fi ranger products the togo product the wine guard connect product those those use category 4 modems now those do not support what's called lte advanced and the primary difference is that they can only have one connection to the cell tower at a given time and they only support four or so bands with the cell tower bands are like frequencies or channels so you know a category four modem might support four channels and it can only use one channel at a time now with all these categories 6 12 18 we'll kind of get to the basics of what the differences are a category 6 modem has a max theoretical throughput or kind of max download speed of around 300 megabits per second which is very fast uh you won't see that typically in the us or anywhere because the cell towers don't necessarily have that much bandwidth to give you but the modem is capable of it a category 12 modem next step up has a max throughput of 600 600 650 megabits somewhere right around there theoretically double the speed of a category six it allows you to connect to more channels with the tower simultaneously than the category six or definitely the category four that doesn't support any multi-channel connectivity the third option is category 18. typically category 18 modems have four cellular antenna jacks on the back of them and those have a max theoretical throughput of i believe 950 megabits so quite a bit of bandwidth and speed again the vast majority of cellular towers are not going to provide you with that much bandwidth but a category 18 modem typically will perform faster downloading and uploading than a category 6 modem whether you're looking at a category 6 12 or 18 all of them are going to do what most people care about the ability to watch netflix the ability to do a zoom call the ability to you know have multiple connections and tvs or amazon alex is connected all at one time the ability to use the internet with two three maybe even four or five people in the rv it can do all of that the real limiting factor is not your modem it's going to be the cell tower and your data plan and what that sell provider is giving you in that particular area of the country from an average perspective we tend to see the national average be somewhere between 10 and 30 megabits um from a bandwidth perspective and like a full hd stream from netflix will use four or five so you're going to be okay with whatever modem that you choose cat 6 12 or 18 however the 12 and the 18 might be a little bit faster so you might be thinking i absolutely need to go for a category 18 modem then it's the fastest and it's only a few hundred dollars more not necessarily uh category 18 modems tend to have the most problems uh they require the most reboots and they are a bit more finicky than your average cat 6 or cat 12 modem which we find are much more stable it's just newer technology it's transmitting a lot more data and information and things can go wrong so oftentimes they need a little bit more attention that doesn't mean that they're not for everyone lots of folks want the fastest possible and don't mind an occasional reboot here or there but plan accordingly based on what's important to you okay so we've got the basics of cellular discussed and kind of figured out now let's talk about kind of wi-fi campground wi-fi personal wi-fi in the rv and how that's different from cellular okay so cellular is transmitting from that cell tower that's kind of where you're getting your main internet source if you're using cellular as your internet wi-fi is transmitting from the mobile router wi-fi comes in two basic normal flavors uh 2.4 gigahertz and 5.8 gigahertz most people call that 2g or 5g which is why it's so confusing because the cellular remember 2g it's the old cellular technology now we've got 2g wi-fi they sound the same they're not the same they're very different so instead of calling it 2g we're going to call it 2 gigahertz that will make it a little bit easier two gigahertz wi-fi that would transmit from one of these uh modems that we'll talk about in all of our bundles is what we kind of call long-range wi-fi it has the longest distance that it can travel lower frequencies travel further five gigahertz 5.8 gigahertz most people just call it five gigahertz um it's faster it's about four to five times faster so if your two gigahertz is going to operate at around say 20 or 30 megabits per connection again plenty for netflix plenty for everything per kind of connected device your 5g is going to be north of 100 120 megabits it's still all 100 dependent on how fast your cellular connection is but when we talk about these bundles and i say you have two gigahertz and five gigahertz wi-fi that's the difference so 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi or 2 gigahertz wi-fi interchangeable kind of terminology just depends on what is easier for you to remember is going to be longer range but not as fast the 5 gigahertz or 5.8 gigahertz is going to be shorter range but much faster so why would you even need five gigahertz wi-fi in a setup what's a good question five gigahertz wi-fi um is very useful if you have multiple computers in your rv and you're doing file transfers in between those computers or if you're in a really crowded or busy rv park where the 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi is just so crowded that there's a lot of interference it can be nice to have five gigahertz wi-fi it's also uh tends to be good if you have a ton of devices so you can have some of your devices running on the 2.4 and some running on the 5 gigahertz all the bundles we'll discuss today will either support the 2.4 gigahertz long range slower but totally fine for netflix browsing internet everything or they'll support both so we'll talk through kind of which ones are which in the coming bundle discussions another term you're going to hear us throwing around when we discuss these modems is something called wi-fi as wan so many terms i'm really sorry but trust me this is one of the last ones and it's important wi-fi is wan is a feature that some of these more advanced routers have which allows you to pick up public wi-fi whether it's walmart starbucks campground wi-fi an airport a casino they tend to broadcast wi-fi and a lot of them broadcasted outside these advanced modems that support wi-fi as wan that's the technology will allow you to take that public wi-fi and bring it in to your rv or your boat as if it's a internet source just like cellular so wi-fi is when it's not the same as cellular it means that you can use a public wi-fi access point as your internet source now remember the wi-fi has got to be good meaning it's got to have enough bandwidth it can't have too many people on it and wi-fi is wayne is usually considered a backup for most of our customers um but it's a nice feature to have especially if you like to travel in areas where the cellular coverage is not very good all right so you made it through the educational part of this video hopefully that wasn't too bad now all of our bundles are going to have a couple components you're going to get your cellular router or modem that's your central hub of connectivity that's where you're going to insert your sim cards and that's kind of the brain of the operation you're going to have a roof antenna that's an externally mounted antenna that can improve your access to campground wi-fi or wi-fi is when one of the terms we talked about or cellular because these antennas have i don't want to call it boost but they have something called additional gain that will improve your connectivity both to wi-fi or to cellular uh networks you're also going to get a dc power cable um which will allow you to connect up your power here not just to the included ac and you can these come with ac adapters so you can plug them right into the wall but it'll also include a dc fuse power adapter in case you want to wire it straight up to 12 volt battery these bundles do not come with sim cards sim cards are provided free of charge if you sign up for one of our internet reseller plans uh or you can purchase sims on our store i believe they're 9.99 for free with free shipping or you can just hop over to att verizon sprint t-mobile depending on who your carrier is cricket whoever as long as it's a hotspot plan and they'll be able to provide you with a sim card all right let's talk bundles our first bundle it's our entry-level bundle it's called the essentials bundle in the essentials bundle you're going to get a roof antenna that we'll show you in a minute a cellular router uh the model that you're going to get in the essentials bundle is right here it's called the max br1 mini you get this modem you get a gps antenna two small cellular antennas these uh are in addition to the roof antenna and a wi-fi antenna as well as an ac power adapter and a dc power cord which i don't have here but there's a picture of it and a quick start guide looking at this modem for a minute just giving you a high level overview we've got a removable here dc power input for our 12 volt input now these modems do accept up to 30 volts i believe in case you have a 24 volt system you can run it on your 24 24 volt system your bare wires from your dc fused power wire would go into here and then you can screw them down from the top over here you've got your standard barrel connector which you'd use with your kind of traditional ac power you do not need to power the roof antennas which we'll show you in a minute and you do not need any of these antennas if you're going to be hooking up the roof antenna but it does come with them so if you're looking to get started you can screw on these standard antennas which still do give you a little bit of gain much better than a hotspot these are two decibel gain antennas two decibels of gain is almost equal to a hundred percent more cellular signal so two decibels is a lot and if you look at a cell phone or something there's no antenna so two decibels will significantly improve your signal may not show in the bars a lot but it's definitely gonna make a big difference it's one of the reasons why these are so popular roof antenna is going to do better than these but it means that you can travel with this if you want to pull it out of the rv take it to a hotel maybe you've got you know a lodge or something you want to use this in that doesn't have internet and you're not going to be by your rv grab and go you could pull this out leave that in the rv still screwed into your 12 volt and take along this plug and you're off to the races in addition you've got two lan ports here for connecting local devices and on this side this is where you can insert your sim cards this device and all pep wave devices have a minimum of two sim card slots meaning you can load up two different carriers you can load up in this device say verizon and sim slot a and a t and sim slot b there's a little dust cover on here but i'll link a video to how you insert the sim cards it's quite easy just make sure you always use like i said before full size sims we've had people stick in the little ones and they get lost and then we have to send the modems back for repair so sim slot and sim slot b do not get used at the same time if you load in uh a sim for let's say a t and slot a and verizon and slot b you'd have to go to the interface console so you just type in an address an ip address into your web browser brings up a nice easy web-based interface and you can select sim a or sim b and give it about 30 45 seconds it'll reboot on the other carrier very handy one of the reasons why our bundles even our essential bundle is super super popular because you can switch between carriers verizon at t now you do need two data plans you have to pay two monthlies but if your primary is at t like ours is and you find that there's no coverage in a particular area you can get a limited plan from like a verizon maybe it's only 15 gigs or something but it'll get you out of a pinch if your primary plan is uh is is not accessible in that area now before we go into the roof antenna i don't want to make this too complicated but just going over a feature this modem does not out of the box support that technology to pick up campground wi-fi the wi-fi as wan technology um it also does not support a wired internet connection meaning you can't plug like a cable modem into this out of the box don't worry it is something that you can upgrade so you're not going to buy something and find out you need it and have to return the hardware but there is a fee for that for 99 later they will they will unlock the device there's a license you can purchase and that will give you the ability to pick up campground wi-fi or wi-fi as wand technology with the same hardware and it will also unlock the wan port here so that if you have a cable modem or you want to use this at home or at a lodge or somewhere where you you you may have wired internet uh you can go ahead and turn on that feature it's not 99 dollars per feature 199 dollar thing unlocks all the features and it unlocks them forever it's not like an annual fee or anything like that um last that same 99 fee will also unlock the ability for the modem to do what's called auto failover meaning that you could set uh your sim card you know your cellular in what's called you know priority a meaning use my cellular all the time and then you could set up campground wi-fi in priority b and that would allow you to if the cellular ever went out fail over to the campground wi-fi or vice versa it also unlocks the ability to do something called load balancing so you can put both the campground wi-fi and the cellular both in priority one and what that means is it'll use the campground wi-fi and your cellular at the same time it does not mean it's going to combine them into one super fast internet pipe it means that it will load balance so some of your traffic will go out the wi-fi and some of your traffic will go out the cellular it is comes in pretty handy though if you have a lot of devices because you can kind of get access to more bandwidth doing that again all of that is something that you can upgrade to with that 99 license out of the box those three features that i discussed at the end will uh not be accessible but the cellular access uh in this device um works great for most people and that's all i really need all right so let's talk about the roof antenna that comes in the essentials bundle all right and some accessories down here this is the poynting memo 3 series antenna this is a roof mountable antenna it has a ton of mounting options you can have your wires come down off the roof straight down as in the configuration it's in right now or if you look here you'll see a little channel right here where the wires can come out the back you'll also see these six little ports here where you can actually add magnets to this antenna that will allow it to be a magnet mount with the wires going out the back down here you've got an adhesive attachment on the bottom of the antenna that will allow you to adhesive mount the unit if necessary now this antenna is a five in one antenna but the essential bundle comes with a two in one antenna um the major difference is that the essential bundle does not have wi-fi in the bundle on the roof you can buy the mini and the five in one antenna separately uh on our store if you want to kind of future proof your roof antenna by putting in a five and one in case you ever felt like you wanted to add that 99 wi-fi as wan technology i'd highly recommend you do that but if you're not planning on it and you're saying look i'm just going to use cellular the two-in-one that comes with the bundle is is plenty for you so you get two cellular antennas on the roof uh with a setup like this and we have a video on how to install this antenna uh if you're curious um and you're worried about roof leaks or anything that that that might be concerning to you now if you do want to take advantage of the gps feature in this unit what that essentially means is that you'll be able to access the cloud based website called in control 2 that peplink provides uh for one year it's kind of like lojack it's very private and secure they're they're a company that does a lot of business with government uh and municipalities so they've they've got their security down pat but you'd essentially be able to view where your rv is online at any given time if for instance it was ever lost or stolen or in my case i had a rv repair store you know damaged some stuff inside of the rv and i was able to go and look at the gps and see that they were driving way faster than the posted speed limit and report that to the managers and and have the repair covered uh by them without any questions so the gps function uh can be come in very handy now this is only a two in one antenna so it doesn't have gps on the roof but don't worry this included antenna does not have to be mounted outside typically if you mount it near this unit in a cabinet or kind of near a window the gps will pick up pretty well even though it is not outside the antenna also comes with all the accessories needed to route the cables out the back and it also comes with the screws needed for the magnet mount kit they do not come with the magnet kit so don't throw this bag out if you buy this kit you'll you'll regret that later because those screws are a little hard to come by now the essentials router and uh and kit is a 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi system so you're not getting access to the 5 gigahertz wi-fi um like you would in our our next bundle we're going to discuss but 2.4 gigahertz plenty fast for netflix plenty fast for zoom calls video conferencing all that stuff so this is a great solution for most folks all right so we're going to move on to our full timer bundle next give me a second i'll put all this stuff away okay welcome to the full timer bundle a lot has not changed because there are some very similar functions and features full timer bundle is stepping you up to this which is the mk2 series uh modem by peplink it's technically it's called the max br1 mk2 still a metal housing quite a bit heavier quite a bit of heft on this modem this unit is going to step you up to a slightly faster processor a little bit more memory uh and a few additional features some of the basics you'll see are pretty common you've got your two cellular ports this is a category 6 modem just like what the essentials bundle is you got your gps port your two sim card slots here down below on this side you've got your dc power port you'll notice this one's a little bit bigger still removable although that screw has been tightened up so i can't pull it out right now still removable and it's got four ports instead of two the other two are for honestly machine to machine communication or serial port access if you want to put this on a combine unit and turn on lights on a tractor you can do that i don't think it's going to matter for most folks you've got your standard kind of dc power port over here and again your your two ports uh for uh for for lan this is labeled wan but it can also be re uh rebranded to a lan port inside the interface you can actually switch it no license upgrades in this device needed your wi-fi is wan your cellular auto failover your prioritization of your connections all are going to function right out of the box in the full timer bundle one thing you'll notice it's different is well i've got one extra antenna port there's two wi-fi ports on this one this unit will support the five gigahertz wi-fi that we discussed so you're gonna have the 2.4 gigahertz long-range wi-fi and the 5 gigahertz wi-fi they can broadcast at the same time in this unit so you can have a network for 2.4 and you can have a network for 5 and you can connect certain devices to each of them depending on what your needs are normally i recommend to folks they connect you know anything close desktops things that are close to the to the device to the five gigahertz it'll be a little bit quicker they don't need the range connect phones uh outdoor devices to the 2.4 gigahertz and they'll do a little bit uh better with the longer range uh but slightly slower wi-fi the wan port right out of the box functions so you can plug this into a cable modem and you know use a standard wired internet device and then fail over to the cellular or the wi-fi as wan and because you've got that 2.4 and 5 gigahertz wi-fi you can actually connect to two different campground wi-fi networks if the campground has 2.4 and 5 gigahertz wi-fi so technically you could have your cellular on you could have wi-fi connected to the campgrounds 2.4 network and then wi-fi connected to the five gigahertz wi-fi and you'd be bringing all of those sources in for your internet use so the full timer bundle uh is is quite uh quite popular and has a lot of features we typically recommend that this is for up to about 60 devices um you know the device could be a printer it could be a alexa it could be a smartphone could be a computer but this will support quite a few devices and it's designed to do so so this is a great unit in terms of what other options you get same thing you're getting your gps antenna you're getting your power adapter uh you're getting two slightly larger cellular antennas that come with this for a little bit more uh power and gain and you're getting this the two wi-fi antennas as well you'll also get access to the roof antenna and now that we have our five and one antenna out from the last video it'll all make sense so same roof antenna uh same multiple access or multiple installation options wires coming down out the back adhesive mount magnet mount option available in this antenna so it's a highly flexible antenna and five leads coming off of this antenna so you've got your two cellular your two wi-fi sorry two cellular two wi-fi and your gps all coming down from the roof and that will fill all of the ports here on the device with this five in one antenna you will be able to pick up campground wi-fi as mentioned before but if you have an airstream or another kind of metal enclosed rv it may actually be challenging if you're transmitting your wireless from outside your rv the benefit is your exterior wi-fi on your patio and whatnot will be significantly better but it may not transmit inside of the the coach as well as you'd like that's okay and this is actually a great kit if that is a challenge that you're facing what we recommend to customers is you hook up one of the wi-fi antenna ports here uh to the roof antenna and then you select you you take one of the small stubby antennas and you connect it to the other port that will give you a transmitter inside of the coach and on the roof so you kind of get the best of both worlds and they will work pretty well with one on the roof so you get outside access and the ability to pick up campground wi-fi and on the inside so all of your devices inside can connect to the internet as well so that's the full timer bundle let me take a moment to put this away and then we'll move on to talk about our speed demon bundle ah so we've been discussing all category 6 modems up until now and now we're going to talk about a category 18 modem so we're jumping all the way to the top in terms of what technology is out there and what speed you can access look how many antenna ports are on that bad boy slightly more complicated installation but not too bad so this is called the transit cat 18 prime care edition um now with this modem and with all the transits uh most of the features are pretty similar so i'm probably going to show you the same modem for for both the uh the speed demon and our ultimate road warrior and our standard road warrior bundles which we'll go into next so let's kind of go through the hardware summary and features we've got our dc power input as we did before uh this one's got a few more transmission and receive uh functionality ports for our machine to machine technology and communication not something that we think any of you guys are probably going to use these two usb ports on the front here are actually for batteries uh you can plug in um like those small battery packs that charge your cell phone using a standard micro usb cable into here plug in one of them and it'll actually power up this device making it very portable popular for live streamers backpackers folks that kind of want to be on the road news crews or anyone who kind of needs to get a lot of internet uh portable the reason why there's two ports is you can actually plug in a second battery and unplug the first battery so you can go charge it without the device going offline nice nice function vast majority of people won't use it but if you do have a van or something small where you want to have uninterrupted access you don't want to go through a bunch of trouble of getting to you know 12 volt power or maybe you have a travel trailer that doesn't have batteries in it that could be an interesting option for uh using the device when you don't have either 12 volt or shore power in the box you have your same complement of what you're used to in all of our bundles your gps antenna your power cord your dc power adapter uh but then you're gonna be getting four cellular antennas and two wi-fi antennas these small guys there's your wi-fi which is a longer one in your small cellular and those are going to be hooking up back here to this massive port connection plate here now the speed demon bundle with the cat 18 has two sim card slots this is a single modem device just like the previous units that we talked about so you can use sim a or sim b not both at the same time but you have a category 18 modem in this bundle so you've got that max theoretical throughput of 900 plus megabits per second so this thing can scream uh if you have a tower and a cellular provider that can support it these two and these two top connections are your cellular connections this supports what's called 4x4 memo or mimo and that will give you quite a few various connections to that cell tower all simultaneously carrier aggregation all sorts of the newest latest technology to really get you the top fastest speeds down here you've got your wi-fi connections this is a device that like the full timer bundle we're stepping into the unit that supports the 2.4 gigahertz and the 5 gigahertz or 5.8 gigahertz wi-fi at the same time and then we have our gps port again two sim card slots on this device and this also comes with mounting brackets so that you can mount it up uh in an area or against a wall and it does actually have an optional din rail installation which probably isn't applicable to rving but it is an option on our store now the speed demon bundle comes with our seven and one pointing antenna we still have the five and one here for uh example purposes but they're basically the same uh there's just two additional cables uh in the seven and one bundle so what you're getting with this antenna is four cellular antennas so you can connect up all four two wi-fi antennas that gets us up to six and then one gps which gets us up to seven with this antenna again with the speed demon bundle you're getting the optional magnet mount option the down spigot option uh the ability to wire the wires out the back if you want the adhesive mount that comes with this unit and we've got plenty of videos on how to install this if you're worried about drilling holes in your roof um this antenna um is a is a great option and the size of the five and one and the seven and one are exactly the same so this exterior footprint it's about nine inches by about five and a half inches if i recall is going to be the same regardless of of what bundle you get the other benefit that the category 18 modem has is it has access to band 71 and band 14. band 71 is that new t-mobile rural band that they're calling 5g this modem does have access to that and can support it um so that is a nice plus for the category 18. definitely something you want to consider if your t-mobile customers to go into this modem it also supports band 14 which is a t's rural band that is also called firstnet it's a first responder band that they built out for police ambulance and fire for rural band use but it also has the ability to be used by the public when first responders are not in need of it again though the speed demon cat 18 modem is one of what we would consider are kind of less reliable modems it's kind of like a car the faster they go you know sometimes the more they need to be in the shop that doesn't mean that they necessarily have a higher failure rate that's not what i mean but they can occasionally need to be rebooted uh in order to get optimal access to all the cell towers and uh it's a relatively new modem so new firmware updates are coming out on it every single day we've we've sold hundreds of these a lot of people are very happy with the unit but if you're like i just want it to work i never want to think about it and i'm not technical at all i'd probably look at the full timer bundle or possibly go into our road warrior bundle which we're going to talk about next all right home stretch only two bundles to go and it's getting a little dark out here so i'm actually going to combine these into talking about them in one sort of section so we've got our road warrior bundle and our ultimate road warrior bundle those are two bundles that we have on our store what are the differences now both of these bundles come with dual modem transits dual modem is different than dual sim when i showed you the modems before that had multiple sim card slots it was either access to sim a or sim b and they couldn't be used at the same time when we get into our road warrior and ultimate road warrior bundle we have four sim card slots and we have two modems in the device so we can use two sims at the same time no you do not need two sim cards if you want to look at purchasing one of these bundles you can load up one single sim and they will operate perfectly fine without anything in the second modem but the second modem will give you access to some pretty cool features now the hardware or the external aspect of the uh road warrior and the ultimate road wear is virtually identical to the speed demon device so i'm going to show you the same device but i'll highlight what the differences are even though they're virtually identical i don't i have one with me right now it's currently my internet and my rv and i don't feel like pulling it out because i have to upload this video for you guys but trust me it's all the same the front is identical there's no no difference you've got your dc power input here you've got your your lan port your wan port which can also be reassigned as another lan port your dc power input and your usb power inputs here to power the device the back again virtually identical you've got two cellular antennas here and two cellular antennas here the difference is that these are for modem one and these two are for modem two so we can run and operate two modems at the same time we still have our gps we still have our two wi-fi's the road warrior and the ultimate road warrior both support 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi the long-range wi-fi and 5 gigahertz wi-fi are shorter distance but faster wi-fi pretty much the only hardware difference with this modem is that behind here now you have four sim card slots you've got one two here for modem a and one two here for modem b or you could call it the other way around modem one a and b modem two a and b you get the idea now these two modems can operate at the same time what that means is if you put a let's call it an att and a verizon sim in at the same time and you load them up in your dashboard both up to priority one it will use both modems at the same time it will not combine them that term called bonding that everybody thinks this modem can do it can do it has all the software and technology to do it in our bundle but i'll get into why you need a little bit of extra stuff to get that working so it won't work out of the box what it will do out of the box is it will load balance these two modems so some of your internet traffic will go out of sim a and some of your internet traffic will go out of sim b um if you've got two att sims in here you'd have to pay for two data plans but in theory you would have double the bandwidth it would be like having two um hotspots running at the same time and the modem is smart enough to know okay this one's being used by one computer i'm going to use this other modem for the other computer so they both have a faster experience that load balancing technology is built into both the road warrior and the ultimate road warrior so what's the difference between the road warrior and the ultimate road warrior the difference is the category of modem the road warrior package has two category six modems the same modems that were in our full timer bundle great modem super fast 300 megabits max throughput a per modem and it's an absolutely great device that is priced incredibly well in that in that bundle package the ultimate road warrior steps up to a category 12 modem that category 12 modem also supports something called firstnet if you are on a t which gives you access to their rural band that they use for first responders but that also let the public use when first responders aren't using it that can help out quite a bit if you're on the a t network the ultimate road warriors category 12 modem does have theoretically twice the throughput of the category 6 in the road warrior bundle so you're getting that 600 megabits throughput um so the ultimate road warrior is definitely a good you know modem to look at and consider now both the road warrior and the ultimate road warrior modems have a technology built in them called speed fusion that allows you to bond those two modems together into a single uh what pep wave calls unbreakable connection what that means is if one modem goes offline if you're in the middle of a video conference the conference will not break and you'll continue to be connected that doesn't always mean okay i have 10 megs on this sim and i have 50 megs on this sim i'm going to connect them and i'm going to get 60 megs i wish that were true but bonding requires quite a bit of bandwidth to actually connect the two sims together so manage your expectations when it comes to speed fusion in order to use the speed fusion technology you have to host the speedfusion server up in the cloud that means you've got to have a working knowledge of how to spin up a server in the cloud and it can get a little complicated peplink does and just has released something um called their speedfusion cloud so they will host it all for you and turn it on with just a few clicks of the button but there are gigabit limitations to that um and it can you know run you for you know it could probably run you 100 bucks a month um to to pay for their cloud hosting server uh stay tuned or message us we also have a beta programmer running where we're hosting speed fusion servers for customers um so we can talk about that with you offline we'll do a separate video on our own private speed fusion cloud which is an option but the point is with this device you're getting all of the licensing to uh gain access to the ability to do the the what's called sd-wan or or wan bonding of multiple connections at the same time now the speed fusion technology uh with the ultimate road warrior and the road warrior um doesn't just stop with your cellular connections you can actually take the wi-fi as wan and your wired internet and you can bring them all together into one like single connection so you could have campground wi-fi at 2.4 gigahertz campground wi-fi 5 gigahertz cellular modem a cellular modem b and a cable modem and have them all connected into one single fat or fast pipe uh with the licensing that's included uh with those two devices so the the roadway and the ultimate road wire are are some of the most advanced mobile connectivity solutions that are currently available on the market today so that does it i'm getting kind of eaten by bugs so i want to wrap up this video but before we stop i do want to talk to you about one additional thing with our bundles which is that you might have noticed that in some of our bundles they say you know ultimate road warrior and it's got this antenna and you'll see others where they say ultimate road warrior mobile mark edition a mobile mark antenna and this antenna are are very similar in terms of their performance uh they you know you can read up on the specs but they're going to have very very similar performance the mobile mark does cost a little bit more and it actually has fewer uh installation options than this antenna so the vast majority of people will go with the cheaper option which makes sense but to talk about the mobile mark there are a couple key benefits to it one it's smaller it's only a six and a half inch or so wide antenna and it's quite a bit shorter it does really well with sprinter vans or anything else where a metal roof is already in play and if you don't have a metal roof you can get a grounding plate that they sell as part of the kit they also make a pole mount for the mobile mark antenna so there are quite a few different mounting options with that kit the reason why it's more expensive honestly it's made in the usa which is great if you want to support that and mobilemark i think has a much more established name and reputation in the antenna industry so they charge a little bit more for it and i think those antennas are worth it my bus has a mobile mark antenna on it that said that if you're looking at something where you're going to have a magnet mount option or you want to run the wires out the back and maybe enter into a box or do something else custom with your installation the pointing antenna is going to be a better choice in most situations that's really just personal preference and that's whatever your installation um is best for all right guys that sort of sums it up those are our internet bundles as of mid 2020 so thanks so much for watching as always our staff is available on our store mobilemusthave.com you can start up a chat there and ask any questions you have thank you so much for watching you know through this video and kind of educating yourself on everything we do before you engage our staff on on questions and stuff that helps us get to more folks faster we really appreciate it and let's get you connected and we'll see on the road [Music] you

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Keywords: mobile internet, livinlite.net, pepwave, poynting, lte router, rv internet, unlimited internet, internet solutions, peplink, MobileMark

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Length: 47min 59sec (2879 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 02 2020