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RoyB
Feb 22, 2015Explorer II
I would look into getting the VERIZON MIFI - JETPACK along with a WILSON SLEEK CRADLE with outside antenna to be your DOCKING STATION. This setup will give you a secured local WIFI HOTSPOT and with the VERIZON NETWORK will give you INTERNET coverage just about anywhere you go. This will work stand along anywhere you are in range of the VERIZON CELL PHONE TOWERS.
We get a great 50-60 feet WIFI coverage area around our MIFI unit and can connect up to 5 of our WIFI enabled devices such as computers and tablets etc... Using the WILSON SLEEK with the passive connection to outside antenna will increase this local secured WIFI HOTSPOT big time.
I would mount the WILSON SLEEK up high somewhere perhaps beind VALANCE type curtains and have a 120VAC receptacle close by to plug in the transformers to supply power for the cradle and MIFI/JETPACK unit. The WILSON SLEEK CRADLE is also a great setup for the vehicle which it was originally desgned for. You can set you cell phone into the cradle and it will make a passive connection to the outside antenna for better cell phone coverage. Mine works great moving down the roadways using either my MIFI unit providing a WIFI HOTSPOT inside the truck or my CELL PHONE sitting in the cradle. I do have a problem at times going between cell phone towers and having to LOGIN again when using the MIFI unit. No problems at all using the cell phone sitting in the WILSON SLEEK cradle for better coverage moving down the roadways.. Our MIFI unit really works best at a destination and setting up being stationary at a VERIZON TOWER for instance...
When we are at the beaches camp grounds kinda neat carrying the small MIFI unit in your shirt pocket and carrying this out to the beaches using our tablets or laptop computers on the internet... My MIFI unit also has a four hour internal battery which makes it real handy to take along to beaches.
The MIFI JETPACK units does not tie up your CELL PHONE ACCOUNT and works totally stand-alone... These are assigned a separate CELL PHONE identify on your account.

VERIZON MIFI 5GB DATAPLAN
VERIZON JETPACK 5-10GB DATAPLAN

WILSON SLEEK CRADLE with OUTSIDE ANTENNA
Lots of info on the RV NET using these unit setups...
Be sure to discuss all of this at your local CELL PHONE dealer for best details...
Another proven system setup is the WILSON PRODUCT line. Be sure to check this out as well on using OUTSIDE mounted cellphone antennas and producing great quality cellphone coverage all thoughout your MH. Wilson has a whole line of professional/commercial amplifiers and repeaters for mobile operations etc... This enhances getting your internet connections through your cell phone carriers...
SATELLITE INTERNET still is a hit and miss for mobile operations... Even stationary SATELLITE INTERNET operations has alot of pitfalls..
Trying to live off the so called FREE WIFI connections all over the country side was a hugh nightmare for us. You never know what to expect.. It works great at one place and just 50 miles down the road you are dead in the water again for many many more miles.
Then at almost all of the campground WIFI signals get overloaded big time between 6PM and 11PM when all of the campground RV'ers are competing for the same internet connection. Of course being "FREE CONNECTIONs" draws alot of customers...
I would prefer having my own secure password protected login capable through a well known system. Having said that no system is really 100% protected...
Just some of my thoughts on best approach for internet usage - I'm sure you will find many other approaches out there...
Roy Ken
We get a great 50-60 feet WIFI coverage area around our MIFI unit and can connect up to 5 of our WIFI enabled devices such as computers and tablets etc... Using the WILSON SLEEK with the passive connection to outside antenna will increase this local secured WIFI HOTSPOT big time.
I would mount the WILSON SLEEK up high somewhere perhaps beind VALANCE type curtains and have a 120VAC receptacle close by to plug in the transformers to supply power for the cradle and MIFI/JETPACK unit. The WILSON SLEEK CRADLE is also a great setup for the vehicle which it was originally desgned for. You can set you cell phone into the cradle and it will make a passive connection to the outside antenna for better cell phone coverage. Mine works great moving down the roadways using either my MIFI unit providing a WIFI HOTSPOT inside the truck or my CELL PHONE sitting in the cradle. I do have a problem at times going between cell phone towers and having to LOGIN again when using the MIFI unit. No problems at all using the cell phone sitting in the WILSON SLEEK cradle for better coverage moving down the roadways.. Our MIFI unit really works best at a destination and setting up being stationary at a VERIZON TOWER for instance...
When we are at the beaches camp grounds kinda neat carrying the small MIFI unit in your shirt pocket and carrying this out to the beaches using our tablets or laptop computers on the internet... My MIFI unit also has a four hour internal battery which makes it real handy to take along to beaches.
The MIFI JETPACK units does not tie up your CELL PHONE ACCOUNT and works totally stand-alone... These are assigned a separate CELL PHONE identify on your account.

VERIZON MIFI 5GB DATAPLAN
VERIZON JETPACK 5-10GB DATAPLAN

WILSON SLEEK CRADLE with OUTSIDE ANTENNA
Lots of info on the RV NET using these unit setups...
Be sure to discuss all of this at your local CELL PHONE dealer for best details...
Another proven system setup is the WILSON PRODUCT line. Be sure to check this out as well on using OUTSIDE mounted cellphone antennas and producing great quality cellphone coverage all thoughout your MH. Wilson has a whole line of professional/commercial amplifiers and repeaters for mobile operations etc... This enhances getting your internet connections through your cell phone carriers...
SATELLITE INTERNET still is a hit and miss for mobile operations... Even stationary SATELLITE INTERNET operations has alot of pitfalls..
Trying to live off the so called FREE WIFI connections all over the country side was a hugh nightmare for us. You never know what to expect.. It works great at one place and just 50 miles down the road you are dead in the water again for many many more miles.
Then at almost all of the campground WIFI signals get overloaded big time between 6PM and 11PM when all of the campground RV'ers are competing for the same internet connection. Of course being "FREE CONNECTIONs" draws alot of customers...
I would prefer having my own secure password protected login capable through a well known system. Having said that no system is really 100% protected...
Just some of my thoughts on best approach for internet usage - I'm sure you will find many other approaches out there...
Roy Ken
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