We’d like to start out by just saying THANK YOU to the Technomads Chris and Cherie, and their website RVMobileInternet. Without their website, their books, and a variety of social media they host, we’d have been totally lost.
There are many choices and many different solutions. We ended up choosing 2 primary components for the time being:
1. weboost Drive 4G-X. We did however not go with one of the kits. We got the base unit and added the 4G Trucker Spring Mount Antenna.
2. WiFiRanger and their EliteAC system
We will eventually need to get a MiFi/Jet Pack cellular device but we’re not quite ready for that yet.
The installation of these items can be done DIY, but be prepared for a significant amount of work, spending a fair amount of time on your roof, and contorting yourself in various ways to get wiring run and devices installed where you want them. For me though, the ‘thing’ I sweated the most over was ‘how am I going to get wire thru the roof to where I want it?’ I was dreading the idea of drilling holes in our rig. WE GOT LUCKY when a Eureka Moment was realized. We have an FM antenna on our roof almost exactly where the cabinet is and the gear will go! No new holes, just detach the existing antenna, run the wires thru the existing hole, re-attach and re-seal. I did have to drill one new hole to get the wires into the cabinet but that went well and I only sweated that out for a few minutes.
Fifth Wheel Journey 