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Re: Newbie needs help with WiFi!
GDS-3950BH wrote: Jas1317 wrote: Gulfcoast wrote: If you go to an AT&T store they can set you up with an unlimited plan for your GMC truck that will provide unlimited hotspot for your truck plus your RV. It's a car connect plan. It's $20 a month and mine works fine even in my RV. Done! Thank you. This seems like a no-brainer. And inexpensive! That only works if you don't mind leaving your trucks ignition in the Acc position the entire time, as the GM wifi shuts down 10 minutes after closing the door with the key off. I question the $20 per month for unlimited as I have had it since GM offered it in their trucks, and its $10 / month per GB. I have also been to many campgrounds in the NE or mid Atlantic where AT&T service is iffy, overloaded with users, or non existent, and in that case the truck wifi is dead in the water. Thank you for this insight! What do you do for WiFi? Towers are in urban and other highly populated areas or generally are installed along major or heavily traveled routes. Truly nice campgrounds are usually in rural areas where towers may not exist or are so far away to make them almost useless unless your idea of nice is a paved parking lot KOA next to an Interstate. The maps they issue for coverage are far from accurate and are skewed by the marketing department. No free lunch.636Views0likes0CommentsRe: Newbie needs help with WiFi!
Gulfcoast wrote: If you go to an AT&T store they can set you up with an unlimited plan for your GMC truck that will provide unlimited hotspot for your truck plus your RV. It's a car connect plan. It's $20 a month and mine works fine even in my RV. Done! Thank you. This seems like a no-brainer. And inexpensive!636Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keeping pets safe in travel trailer while “home alone”
garysol wrote: We use the Marcell Pro cellular monitor that will call, text AND email me if the RV loses power or if the temps get above or below a preset level or if the humidity rises dramatically. It uses cellular service and not wifi so it will work ALMOST everywhere and does not rely on campground wifi which will be non existent in a power outage. Marcell Pro Thank you!!779Views0likes0CommentsRe: Newbie needs help with WiFi!
pianotuna wrote: Jas1317 wrote: This is exactly what I need thank you. Are you a member? I’m wondering if I sign up will they give me a direct consult. I was up for hours last night reading all the free material lol. They no longer do direct consults. What are your needs? What are your questions? I need to teach courses and/or see patients on zoom approx 15 hours/week. I also need to be able to run a monitor - video and temp - on my dogs in the camper occasionally - maybe a few hours/week. I have a sprint phone with “unlimited data” which I now understand is not unlimited. So it sounds like I need to purchase a hot spot (how do I do this?!) just to connect my laptop to for the purpose of zoom. And I’m not sure what else! My truck is a new gmc and I understand that offers hotspot service somehow - I don’t know if that’s worth it?636Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keeping pets safe in travel trailer while “home alone”
colliehauler wrote: Deb and Ed M wrote: colliehauler wrote: If you watch a video of a RV fire they are burnt down in minutes with leathal toxic smoke long before that. What good does a sign do if the door is locked? My Collies are the most important thing in my RV. The rest can be replaced with a shopping trip to Wallyworld. You have a really good point. I guess I feel the chances of a random opportunistic thief opening the unlocked door and turning my dogs loose (now scared and running - neither is very protective) is higher than my RV catching fire?? I don't know where you camp but I haven't locked a RV door (other then the storage yard) in over 25 years and never had a theft. Of course I have owned RV'S for over 25 years and never had a fire. There for awhile RV'S had a issue of refrigerator fires. I had the recalls done to fix the issue. Usually a thieve will do more costly damage to the RV breaking in then what the stuff inside is worth. We don’t camp anywhere yet we just bought our first travel trailer! I’m so glad to hear this!778Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keeping pets safe in travel trailer while “home alone”
richclover wrote: We’re at our winter runaway rv park. Dog friendly with the usual rules. Campers next door have 3 dogs and are in the habit of leaving them unattended for several hours at a time. Wow! Those critters can be heard all over the park! So last evening the lady walked by with her 3 dogs and my Wife struck up a conversation since we had not yet met. Very friendly, so we let her know that their dogs bark constantly while home alone. She had no idea and thanked us for telling her. We’ll see what happens. No complaints from us. We’re dog people too. But ours go with us. Wow. Yeah I don’t intend to leave them without a monitor so I would know if they bark. Mine don’t bark much at home unless they see a dog out the window or someone comes to the door so I don’t think it will be an issue, but we are going to make sure before leaving them. And it would also be for a very short period of time - to go to dinner or to the pool or something like that. Otherwise ours will come with us too.778Views0likes0CommentsRe: Newbie needs help with WiFi!
Second Chance wrote: Read and research here - they are the gurus: RVMobileInternet.com Rob This is exactly what I need thank you. Are you a member? I’m wondering if I sign up will they give me a direct consult. I was up for hours last night reading all the free material lol.274Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keeping pets safe in travel trailer while “home alone”
Deb and Ed M wrote: colliehauler wrote: If you watch a video of a RV fire they are burnt down in minutes with leathal toxic smoke long before that. What good does a sign do if the door is locked? My Collies are the most important thing in my RV. The rest can be replaced with a shopping trip to Wallyworld. You have a really good point. I guess I feel the chances of a random opportunistic thief opening the unlocked door and turning my dogs loose (now scared and running - neither is very protective) is higher than my RV catching fire?? Are RV thieves a big thing? This is probably a separate topic in itself!778Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keeping pets safe in travel trailer while “home alone”
colliehauler wrote: ford truck guy wrote: Been traveling with a dog, or dogs for 30+ years... Like already stated, how they react at home is usually how they will be in the RV... Take a drive, park away and sneak back to see what they are going.... Get a monitor and keep a watch.. ^^^This, to a dog the RV becomes home. My Collies like the RV because we go on more walks. Perfect I think our dogs are going to love it too! Thank you for the confidence!778Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keeping pets safe in travel trailer while “home alone”
colliehauler wrote: I have always traveled with full size Collies. I never crate don't want large crates in the RV to deal with. None of my Collies have ever damaged anything in the RV's. Do you crate at home? Along with the A/C I run a fan. I leave the TV or radio on so outside noise is not as much of a distraction. I don't leave them alone for extended periods. They sleep when left alone in the RV. I usually just take the Collies with me when exploring the area but understand some areas it's not possible. Now more controversy, I always leave my RV unlocked when gone with pets inside. If a fire would break out there would be a possibility of a rescue. A RV can burn to the ground in very little time. I also give the campground my phone number if they need to contact me. This is smart I never thought about the fire issue! We don’t crate at home anymore, used to when they were younger and they sometimes go it a crate to sleep by choice (it’s open and cozy).322Views0likes0Comments
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