RV Hardware Recommendations
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2021 8:53 am
Hi everyone,
I'm new to the whole using cellular carriers for home internet game and have been trying to rapidly gain knowledge in the area as my girlfriend and I are going to become full time RVers in mid May for a year while we work remotely. As such our internet needs are primarily focused around making sure we are able to work in most areas (we arent going to need anything that gets us service in super rural areas as we are just going to avoid those during the work week) and ideally I have good enough service that I can manage to do some gaming (I am fully accepting that my internet may not allow it in some places and that's fine).
After a couple weeks of trying to read up as much as I can, I think what we would like to do is have a couple of carriers so that we can use whichever one works best for us in the given area. The two carriers/plans I have been leaning towards is TMobile (magenta max) and Visible. I figure the TMobile plan will be nice to take advantage of where its available, and the Visible plan can kind of be our backup plan where we will have better coverage at the cost of much lower speeds.
So with all of that background, I am having some issues trying to figure out what hardware would work best for me and allow me to somewhat easily switch between the TMobile and Visible setups. I THINK I should be going with some sort of cellular router and it seems like most would allow me to have a TMobile SIM as well as a tethered Visible connection, but then I get kind of lost in terms of what sort of modem I should be looking for.
Any help/guidance is much appreciated, in terms of cost I would like to keep it under 500 for the total setup, just kind of looking for something that is nicely positioned on the value curve.
I'm new to the whole using cellular carriers for home internet game and have been trying to rapidly gain knowledge in the area as my girlfriend and I are going to become full time RVers in mid May for a year while we work remotely. As such our internet needs are primarily focused around making sure we are able to work in most areas (we arent going to need anything that gets us service in super rural areas as we are just going to avoid those during the work week) and ideally I have good enough service that I can manage to do some gaming (I am fully accepting that my internet may not allow it in some places and that's fine).
After a couple weeks of trying to read up as much as I can, I think what we would like to do is have a couple of carriers so that we can use whichever one works best for us in the given area. The two carriers/plans I have been leaning towards is TMobile (magenta max) and Visible. I figure the TMobile plan will be nice to take advantage of where its available, and the Visible plan can kind of be our backup plan where we will have better coverage at the cost of much lower speeds.
So with all of that background, I am having some issues trying to figure out what hardware would work best for me and allow me to somewhat easily switch between the TMobile and Visible setups. I THINK I should be going with some sort of cellular router and it seems like most would allow me to have a TMobile SIM as well as a tethered Visible connection, but then I get kind of lost in terms of what sort of modem I should be looking for.
Any help/guidance is much appreciated, in terms of cost I would like to keep it under 500 for the total setup, just kind of looking for something that is nicely positioned on the value curve.
