In today's video, I'm going to share with you how I stay connected on the road
including my original setup, the setup I have now, a little tip on how i conserve data,
and yeah i'll share with you how much this thing costs! So let's go!
Greetings from on top of my van here in cold wet rainy Missouri. i cannot wait to get on the road
and head somewhere warm that'll be sometime next week but today i'm going to talk about one of the
most popular topics of discussion with RVers and probably one of the top three or four questions i
get when people are considering this lifestyle how do you get internet on the road okay the reason
i'm on my roof is the first thing we're going to talk about is my cell booster it's a WeBoost drive
x rv and what it does is it amplifies sell signal and increases my up and down load on my cell phone
so obviously that's important to a system in my opinion this is probably the most important thing
to get if you want to use cell phone data as your main internet connection which is what i do this
system isn't cheap it's about 500 bucks but it really does the job and let's go down into the cab
and i'll show you what i'm talking about okay it's good to be inside the rig where it's kind of warm
and cozy so this is the inside antenna and in order for it to increase your signal strength
on your cell phone or your hot spot you got to be about six feet from it so i'll demonstrate
real quick with the devices i currently use so the first is my hot spot which i'll explain more later
and you can see that it is currently at three bars all right so let's move this one over so
we're going to put it next to the hotspot and you'll see boom it gained an extra bar so about
25 percent more signal strength here's my verizon uh phone which is an iphone pro max which has 5g
you'll see my 5g is 2 bar right now and let's go over here
and we'll set it next to the hot spot
and of course it goes off on me and you can see it has four bars so it increased by 50
with 5g so as you can see there's definitely an increase in signal streak from 25 to 50 on the
two devices i have so to me this is a must-have if you're living full-time in your van and you want
to be connected even though it's a little pricey okay first let's talk about my initial setup if
you've been following my channel for a while you know i traveled internationally so my connectivity
was set up for international travel so the first device i'll talk about is one i still use
it's called a glocal me you can get these on amazon they're 160 dollars i'll link below
and the great thing about this device it looks like a cell phone but it's really just a hot
spot but it works anywhere in the world the way it works is you have an app on your phone
and you can buy passes in different countries you can buy a day pass you can buy a week pass you
can buy a monthly pass you can buy a pass based on the amount of data you need so it's very flexible
and it's pay as you go there's no contract that's what i really love about it when i got back from
international travel i realized this could be used as a hotspot in the us as well what's really cool
about it is it uses two phone services it uses either at t or t-mobile whichever is stronger
in the area you're at so if at t is stronger it uses a t if t-mobile is stronger it uses t-mobile
so it's really like having two phone plans and one and i only have to pay one data charge so
we'll come back to this one in a moment and why i kept it and integrated it into my current system
the other device i had with me on international travel was a google pixel 3 on the google fi
network and that worked really well for me it allowed me to keep my u.s phone number and have
relatively inexpensive phone service no matter where i was in the world i highly recommend
google 5 if you plan on traveling internationally long term the reason i didn't keep my google phone
and google find my current rotation is because google phi uses t-mobile for their phone service
so it was kind of redundant and i wanted another option so that brings me to my current setup
i still have the glocal me which has worked well all over the united states including out west in
the mountains it really was the only device that was working for me for a while it's not always
the fastest service but at least i have service almost anywhere i go with this device so this one
is my t-mobile and at t device my newest device is an iphone 12 pro on the verizon network what
i like about this service is as you saw before i'm here in rural missouri and i have 5g connectivity
if you've never used 5g it's a zillion times faster than 4g and it's a nice little upgrade
over what i had before what i also like is i'm on the verizon network so now i have att
t-mobile and verizon so no matter where i go i'm probably going to have some sort of connectivity
i currently have the max unlimited plan you can have on verizon i have the 100g 70g on the phone
and 30g as a hotspot so far that's worked well for me in combination with my glocal me hotspot
it is an unlimited plan but once you hit those limits you get throttled to six megabytes a second
another thing i like is it's an iphone so i can airdrop files from my macbook to my iphone so
now when i make a youtube video i just airdrop it to my phone and upload it to youtube using the 5g
it's fast and i'm using that 70 gig of data i have on the phone so that's my current simple
setup i have the wii boost which is pay as you go and on a t and t-mobile's network and then i have
the iphone 12 max on verizon's network and i have access to 5g so far this setup has worked really
really well for me and i'm really happy with it one of my favorite hacks on how to conserve data
is i limit what i stream on my devices if i'm going to stream hulu netflix or disney plus i
usually do it directly onto my phone so i can take advantage of that big chunk of 70 gigs of data but
really my biggest data saver is i have my favorite shows on dvd so i don't have to stream them so i
have seinfeld i have big bang theory i have the office i have friends so i just pop them in the
dvd and watch them on there and i don't waste my data watching shows i reserve my streaming data
for movies or show like the mandalorian on disney plus so that's my tip on how to conserve data if
you have any tips for conserving data make sure you share it with everybody and type it down below
in the comments okay so last how much does this entire setup cost me so i told you earlier that
my verizon plan which is 5g is 100 a month that also includes hulu disney plus and apple streaming
music so i was able to cancel netflix and spotify so that was a little bit of a side benefit i was
able to roll some of my monthly expenses into my monthly cost of my phone which saved me a little
money and then my glocal me it just depends on how much data i use right now i have a 50 gig package
that was on sale for 80 so for this month i'm spending 180 but it's gonna be anywhere between
150 and 250 depending on the amount of data i need to use some months i'll probably be able
to go with just my phone and that's one of the things i like about it this glocal me is really
flexible it's pay as you go okay so that's how i stay connected on the road what do you think do
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