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Router for RV use

Several years ago I developed a sickness labeled, "Tired of spending too much time and money on the Foretravel". My cure was to put it on the back burner. It was easier on my body and especially on my wallet to let it be.
The Foretravel is parked in my back yard so I saw it everyday, that allowed me to imagine all the upgrades I could someday do to it.
I would read things on the forum about different devises that would make the coach better and I would buy them with "someday" installation projects in the back of my mind. I also imagined that after both my knees were replaced, my cataracts fixed, and my rotator cuffs repaired I would be ready for the ring again.
The day has arrived, I have decided to get back in the ring and have another round vs the coach. I still have not had the knees replaced or the shoulders done so I will be content with UN-relenting profanity every time I climb the latter to the roof or have to get down and crawl.
Back in my spare bedroom, where all the accumulated coach parts live, I found a router that I had bought years back, still in an unopened package. I bought it to go with the Mobley I bought. now I wonder if the router is too old to bother with or what I should replace it with.

Its a TP-Link TL-MR3020 3g/4g N router.
Is this still good to go?
If not, what is a good modern router for the coach.
1995 U320C SE 40'
Jeep 4x4 Commander - Limited - Hemi
"The Pack"  Yogi and Diesel our Airedales -  Charlie our Boxer/Akita mix. Gone but NEVER forgotten Jake our yellow Lab.
NRA Law Enforcement Firearms instructor - Handgun/shotgun
Regional Firearms instructor for national Armored Transp. Co.

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Reply #1 –
You do not want to put your Mobley sim card in another device now, bad things can happen. As far as wi fi to a router no problem but see no gain in that.
1999 40 ft. U-320 wtfe build 5563 Chuck & Lynda's "Rollin' Inn"  2030 watts solar
prev. mh's 71 GMC 5 yrs. 73 Pace Setter 1 yr. 78 Vogue 5 yrs 81 FTX 40ft all electric 18 yrs. 1996 Monaco Signature 3 yrs.
2014 Grand Cherokee Overland
Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.  James Dean

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Reply #2 –
The Mobley will likely work for an unknown period of time but will eventually be cut off because it's not in a supported device.

There are plenty of hotspot data plans available. We use starlink and have for about 6 months now with limited issues.

Check out rvmobileinternet.com for up to date plans and devices.
1999 U320 WTFE #5586
2014 Subaru Forester 6sp
4000 watts of solar
650 aH @ 24v

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Reply #3 –
I have Pepwave soho and it works as wifi as a wan  I have the mobily and have everything in the coach connected to the Pepwave.  Then I connect the Pepwave to the mobily.  Works great.  I can also connect my phone hot shot to the Pepwave.
2014 ih45  (4th Foretravel owned)
 1997 36' U295 Sold in 2020, owned for 19 years
  U240 36' Sold to insurance company after melting in garage fire
    33' Foretravel on Dodge Chassis  Sold very long time ago

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Reply #4 –
I have no plans to take the SIM card out of the Mobley. I realize that the Mobley is probably near the end of its useful life. My daughter used it awhile back and must have messed with the settings, I'm now stuck with it only working for 2 hours before it has to be re-started, it will not accept any change in that setting.
I'm looking at the future of the router I now have. My feeling is that its old, and should be upgraded. But if that's the case, replaced with what?
Eventually I see Star-Link in the future.
1995 U320C SE 40'
Jeep 4x4 Commander - Limited - Hemi
"The Pack"  Yogi and Diesel our Airedales -  Charlie our Boxer/Akita mix. Gone but NEVER forgotten Jake our yellow Lab.
NRA Law Enforcement Firearms instructor - Handgun/shotgun
Regional Firearms instructor for national Armored Transp. Co.

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Reply #5 –
Quote from: Lon and Cheryl –
s a TP-Link TL-MR3020 3g/4g N router.
Is this still good to go?
If not, what is a good modern router for the coach.
We still have a 1TB Apple Time Machine because it's packed with movies.  But us it as a router? My big assed Lexmark E238 sits at my left elbow so if I need to print something I just plug it into a USB port.  Why do you need a router?  Very occasionally we need to move something large from one computer to another, and for us Apple Air Drop does the job.  Plus I have a small bog with USB thumb drives with sticky labels, a couple of which are "live" so I can have "My computer" on any Apple machine to which I have physical access.  So what would a router do for you?

FWIW, my day begins with the question How much pain do I want to experience today? I gotta go walk Duke, the Dog and do my morning deep knee bends.  That's a given.  Other than that, today?  I'm going to adjust the toe-in on the Studebaker.

Art
1992 Foretravel Grand Villa
U225 SBID Build No. 4134
1986 Rockwood Driftwood
1968 S.I.A.T.A. Spring
1962 Studebaker Lark
1986 Honda VF700C
1983 Honda VF750C
Charlie, the Dog was broken out of jail 24 Oct 2023
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AA1OH (H)e who must be obeyed.

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Reply #6 –
Changed from AT&T to T Mobil 5 G system.
Only$50 a month and all you do is set it by a window and plug it in. It gives me Wi-Fi internet through the house.
It would be easy to take along in the coach.
It does need the 5 G cell service.
The T Mobil map shows good coverage, not everywhere but looks like a lot of the country.
Might be worth a try.
I guess 5G service will continue to improve.
John Duld
1995 U320C SE 40'

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Reply #7 –
Quote from: Lon and Cheryl –
My daughter used it awhile back and must have messed with the settings, I'm now stuck with it only working for 2 hours before it has to be re-started, it will not accept any change in that setting.


Lon, unfortunately, a few years ago AT&T forced a firmware update to all the Mobley's that powers the device down IF STATIONARY after 2 hours.  So, you have to unplug / replug...  A real PITA when you're at that point in a movie, full of suspence, action, etc and then "signal lost".... Ugh!

One of my "someday" projects is; what can I make to move it around when we're parked so we defeat the cutoff???

J & K
Jeff & Kristen
2002 U320 build #6039
Living the Dream!

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Reply #8 –
Do a search here, there were instructions on how to get the Mobley to stay on and not have to be moved. I followed them and it works 24/7 at home and when we travel.
1999 40 ft. U-320 wtfe build 5563 Chuck & Lynda's "Rollin' Inn"  2030 watts solar
prev. mh's 71 GMC 5 yrs. 73 Pace Setter 1 yr. 78 Vogue 5 yrs 81 FTX 40ft all electric 18 yrs. 1996 Monaco Signature 3 yrs.
2014 Grand Cherokee Overland
Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.  James Dean

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Reply #9 –
I took the simm card out of my Mobley and installed it in a NetGear 815S portable router and it is still working great.  I have the first Mobley when AT&T first came out with them. The later Mobley were changed by AT&T.
John
John & Carm Morales

"We travel not to go anywhere, but to just go.  We travel for travel's sake.  Our great desire is to move."
 

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Reply #10 –
I have a pep wave max transit. I believe it's called. This is a dual modem card with each modem having the space for two SIM cards so you can put in a total of four SIM cards. It also takes input from a GPS antenna as well as a wan and a lan. I have some truck antennas on the roof for the coach that feed it cellular signals and then that outputs in the coach as either Wi-Fi or ethernet. It's not cheap but it's a really good system imo.
'99 U320 40 WTFE
Build #5462,
1500 Watts Solar 600 amp Victron lithium
2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland Hemi
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