so good morning everybody here's where we're at today first of all
this video may be out of order I don't know about the sequencing there's a
couple different parts of this video that I want to put together so I don't
know about when it's gonna get aired or how will fit into my normal tribal life
but today something very very important is going to happen on the RV as you know
for me I rely heavily on having a cell tower nearby in order to upload videos
in order to navigate and in order to interact with my viewers on the road
it's very important me to have cell towers and oftentimes I would get to
places that either don't have any service or have very weak service or
have very slow transfer speeds for data over the last year I've heard lots of
people talk about cell boosters being installed in their RVs and I've been
looking into this a lot to the point where I realized it is time that I get
my own and it has it turns out right when I was looking a company called we
boost also Wilson Electronics reached out to me and although this is not a
paid advertisement they did send me one of their RV specific units for free to
install in the RV review and share it with my viewers that way in case I liked
it and I could share it that it works maybe somebody else might also want to
get it as well so gonna show you this on top of my buddy's Plymouth here at the
shop but this is the 32 times better RV cellular signal booster the drive for
gx4 RV a couple of things I just want to clarify about this unit it's different
than a booster that grabs Wi-Fi from like McDonald's or out there at
Starbucks or something like that that would be a booster that you place
inside your RV that tries to grab Wi-Fi signal that's available in a week you
can grab that Wi-Fi and you can pull it into your RV to get it what this does is
it grabs the cell towers themselves it grabs data and voice signal from cell
towers and it brings it into the RV and then it amplifies it just inside the RV
like I think this one is ready to need to be within three to nine feet of the
receiver part of this that's gonna be in the RV so the RV park next to me is not
going to be stealing my boosted amplified signal that I have inside the
RV the other thing about the install itself
is it works on class ABCs trailers everything it talks about putting the
antenna outside preferably and then having a distance between that and where
the booster is stored and powered and then the blue line this is the antenna
where I get the signal from inside you'd want to have that even five to ten feet
away from that so that you want to have this dynamic range to not get
interference basically so essentially there's some sort of some planning
involved here and logistics on how you want to install this this thing includes
everything it has a hole saw kit in it so you can drill right into your RV it
also has the cap to hide the wires hopefully I will not be drilling any new
holes into the RV I have holes that I can tap into I believe but this kit
comes with an antenna mount for the ladder which i think is a great most RVs
and trailers are gonna have this ladder so I think we're gonna put it up there
on the top of my ladder and then run the wire back and go back through where my
solar connection is and then we'll find a spot inside it's said to work with all
of the major networks so AT&T Verizon t-mobile Sprint any of those it's going
to be able to be compatible with that 3G 4G LTE it's not just going to help with
your cell phone I mean I know that's what a lot of people are gonna use it
for for getting their navigation to work when there's no service at the
campground sending an email it's for voice calls it's for data data is the
real key so I think that this is gonna be very unique I don't think a lot of
people have used it for that but when you think of data this is my Wi-Fi
hotspot device this is how I get all of my 500 to 600 gigabytes a month use out
of uploading videos watching Netflix watching mariners through my ps4 live on
the road this device requires a cell tower this is a data device and so the
drive for GX signal booster is going to be used on this as well this is going to
grab that boosted signal hopefully and I will be able to have my continued
unlimited internet through this device amplified through the new booster that's
my goal anyway but let's open this up and let's see what we got in the package
so we will take a very quick look inside and see what all comes with
it's got directions and a phone number you can call in case you need more help
and a user guide inside the big box are two little boxes box install a and box
install B box a has two more boxes it has step one which is the antenna which
we're doing first and then includes step two three six and eight so we will have
to open the other box in between to get five and seven before but mount the
antenna outside to a pole or ladder so that the entire outside intenta antenna
is above the roof line of the RV and clear of other metal obstructions
there's the antenna there and there's the brackets for installing it on the
ladder all right so I attached the L bracket to the bottom of the antenna
like the direction say there's that part and then we'll move on to step two so
step two is this whole bit drill it says drill into your RV unless a you're using
an existing cable entry point which we are so we aren't doing that we're gonna
go in the existing hole next step is going to hook up this coax cable and run
that through my old solar wiring hole so I got the cable going across underneath
one solar panel and then we come over here I drilled out the old hole which I
had already had drilled for the solar wires that go down their coax goes down
there the kit comes with a new cap which is kind of convenient so that cap will
go on there with the wires and the only thing this can't really didn't come with
is the dyke or self-leveling to seal this back up afterwards but I have some
still left over and then the last thing to do the kit comes with these stake
downs with zip ties that you put through so that I can secure this to the roof
without drilling any more holes in the roof but that'll be the last step
alrighty so steps four and five are to mount the booster device which has the
smaller connection right there to mount that and to hook up the wire what I'm
going to do is probably run the wire into this cabinet and mount this device
on the backside back there to get it as far away as possible also close to a
power source I have both DC available by the security camera
or I can run an AC underneath so I'm gonna mount this on the back back there
I'll just mention I will assume there will be some drilling involved for most
people but like I said my security camera wire already goes through that
cabinet goes up there and comes back out so I'm just utilizing some of the old
holes I drilled you're not gonna hurt anything by putting holes in the
cabinets up there to try to hide some of this on the other side of the cabinet
you can see how much came out I've got about 812 inches coming out and this
hooks into the bottom part of the booster freeing up the top one to go to
the interior antenna so I'm going to mount this right there and that coaxial
cable going to the bottom of this booster so I skipped ahead a little bit
I already grabbed the table top antenna and plugged it into the top I did that
just for clearance cuz it's gonna be really hard to do once I click this in
so don't mind this I've just skipped ahead I'm going to there we go that's
all secure oh are you helping thanks and that eventually the core to go in there
and come down and that's the tabletop antenna that is what needs to be within
three to nine feet of the cell phone or Wi-Fi device at all times having decided
where I'm gonna put just exactly it doesn't have any mounting brackets or
anything it may be some velcro or something we'll see all right but we
still need powers we got to think about power because power happens at the
booster itself which would be the middle of the components if you're talking
about the antenna the booster and the interior antenna power needs to be
powered at the booster that I just installed up here so it comes with 110
volt power supply you can just plug into any outlet which might work great if you
know you're always going to be plugged in in an RV park or if you have an
inverter like me that runs off solar in that inverter then goes underneath and
controls everything in this cabinet right there so these are normal-looking
hundred and ten outlets but they are being run off my pure sine and wave are
off of solar and batteries therefore giving me 24 hour power
in this box right here so I am going to use AC power just because it's more
convenient for my setup but this kit also comes with optional 12 volt where
you use air fuse there's not a fuse in this package but you could fuse it
directly to your battery or tap in anywhere inside the RV that has 12 volt
two wires and you could power the booster with 12 volt also alright
everything is connected except power to the actual booster this
plugging this into the back of that is the final step for right now I've got
the booster just sitting there on top of my tombstone frame picture but I mean I
haven't even plugged it in to see if there's power I know there's power let's
do a test on my phone real quick where we're at right now
you can see it says Cricut LTE but one bar service let's do a speed test first
okay looks like my downloads are going to be about three point six one
downloads now we'll do uploads ooh
0.22 uploads here not very good this is a perfect test because I have a really
crummy service here let's do this test again whoa whoa whoa download is good
sixteen point two download and upload is gonna be drastically improved as well
whoo two point six four wow what a great improvement this is a simple test really
because I've only tested in one location I've only tested it with one network it
works with all networks but I'm gonna be utilizing this booster for both my cell
phone and my internet so let's move over to Wi-Fi on this and see what the
difference is let me turn the booster off real quick alright so we are
connected to my network nomadic fanatic and let's do a speed test here
out the booster on 5.43 megabits per second download
and officially 1.1 megabits per second upload we're gonna do another test here
Oh oh really is that what you think Wow nineteen point six nine download and 5.0
three upload now whoo now I know this test is not official
it's not like everybody else does it in fact the company weboost wants us all to
test just the decibel gains okay so they want they want to prove and they want to
show you that yes with this system you're getting a higher decibel range of
boost well yes clearly I understand that but I don't feel like telling you well I
went from two decibels to forty two decibels in my booster that's not
telling you the effectiveness of it that's why I chose to do speed tests
instead of the before and after the booster because that's what that's what
really matters you know what am i able to stream youtube you know if it's down
in the one to two megabits per second range I don't even think you can really
watch Netflix or stream a Seattle Mariners game you know but if you're up
there over 15 to 19 to 20 downloads that I mean I can be watching something and
uploading something clearly clearly this test proves that that booster is is
grabbing a better signal from a cell tower amplifying here and giving me more
to work with which is going to improve my quality of life on the road as a
YouTube creator both for entertainment as well as getting those uploads done
faster when I have good service so that's that's my test again I know this
isn't official I know this is just one location as well later on it might be
interesting to revisit some of these places where I had no service all right
one bar but I couldn't even open up yahoo mail or something and maybe with
the booster now I'm able to stay in that area for a couple of nights with service
and be able to upload a video and Internet interact with viewers and stuff
like that so it will be interesting to see as the weeks and months go to see
how this booster really helps change my life on the road otherwise so far right
now I kind of have to recommend the device I'm not like I said I'm not being
paid by the company or anything they send it to me
for free and they're like do an honest review hey that's pretty bold but they
knew they knew what was gonna happen they they knew it was gonna improve
everything so all right I give it my official thumbs up a couple of other
things I just want to point about out about the booster itself let's pretend
like it didn't do what it says it's supposed to do and that's boost the
signal 32 times decibel what it was before even if it didn't do that
having the antenna outside and up away and making sure that everything I'm
doing inside the RV like my cell phone my Wi-Fi hotspot it's not depending on
site of line from my hand to the tower everything I do inside is now based on
site of line from this antenna to wherever the cellphone tower is so even
just having that changed right there might even be enough but pretty
confident in what I'm seeing that it is literally boosting that signal to a
crazy amount better than it was before I started before I didn't have a booster
at all but I got some work to do I still got to seal the roof up there I got to
contact the wires down I got to put some stuff away in here but cool more
projects more good stuff happening here on the road