The weBoost Connect RV 65: Better Cell Signal on the Road

Nobody today travels without a cell phone. We use it for not only a phone but for internet, to do our banking, all types of stuff. One of the challenges is getting into an RV park that may not have real good cell phone signals. The tower may be far away, you have obstacles in the way. We have a product here that is from weBoost. It's gonna help enhance that cell phone signal on the 3G or 4G or LTE, and be able to give you less dropouts and better cell phone reception. It's the Connect RV 65 and we have the model here. It starts with a little foot plate on the bottom that can be spiked down into the ground to help secure it. It also has a set of these mounting brackets. And what we do with these is get them into place. They need to be about four feet away but they have this bracket and it just has an adhesive on the backside of it. And we take that off and place it on the sidewall of the RV, so we don't have to worry about putting any kind of fasteners, screws, anything into the side of that. And then we're just gonna slide this onto that bracket and it's gonna hold it right up against the sidewall of the RV. Now these need to be about four feet away minimum is what it states in the installation manual and they do have an excellent manual. It goes through every step of this. So we start with our pole here and we've already put our exterior or outside antenna here on with this L-shaped bracket. And you see the wing ducts in here does allow us to put different angles if we need to have it higher or even bring it down. I can adjust this by just turning this a little bit and moving. You can see here but before you do that you wanna make sure that you've got nothing in the way that you don't have any special power lines, that I'm gonna put this up to. So I can go quite a ways up in the air to get over walls, obstacles, other RVs that might be in the way to help get that signal. So then the next thing, we're gonna take this and we do need to bring a coax into the inside of our RV to our booster here. It doesn't need power on the outside it's gonna be get powered through the coax cable here. So we're just gonna connect this. Bring this down a little bit here, here we go. And I would definitely wanna tighten this up with a, wrench or something. Or we'll just leave this loose for demonstration purposes. Then I'm gonna take the other end of this and they recommended in the installation manual to bring it through a slide room. You do have a bulb seal and a flap and a little bit of a gap. Now, one of the things you wanna make sure, don't bring the slide room all the way out. 'Cause then it's gonna have an inside frame that hits up against it. Do about halfway, and then you'll be able to get your your cable through there. We're just gonna sneak this through the bedroom slide but you can do it through any one of the slide rooms. What are the alternatives you may find in bringing the coax cable in, rather than going through the slide room and through rooms to get to the booster and to the interior antenna, is most of your RVs have an exterior coax connection. It's usually over on the service side, in the service center or on the side of the unit, on the driver's side. So you can hook up to a campground cable system or you could do a portable satellite dish. That's a great cable for you just to connect very easily the exterior antenna coax to that it's gonna run up to your entertainment center. So, in motor homes you would see it up in the front above the drivers and passengers area. In a trailer you may see it back by the television which is a great spot because, I have power there, I have a coax already pre-wired for everything. So check and see if you have a coax in your service center or exterior cable connection that would make this a lot easier. Now if you wanna do a little more permanent mounting not have to try and thread that in every single time, you can go through the roof vent of the refrigerator like we did with a solar panel in one of the videos beforehand. There's roofing on the top we just take that off, fish it down the backside of the refrigerator and bring it out. Then I could just disconnect this on the outside as I set it up and tear it down. So a little more permanent mount makes it a little easier. Inside then we're gonna put our booster and this just happen, it'll do 32 times boost on a 3G, 4G or an LTE network. Verizon, AT & T, all to the carriers. And this is just gonna be permanently mounted inside somewhere in the cabinet out of the way where we can get our coax cable into it. It does need to be powered, so we have two different power sources. We have 120 volt source here that is going to put out a five volt charge or power to this or we can connect to a 12 volt source and it'll do the same thing it'll bring a five volt charge to this. So, for boondocking we don't have to have electrical, electricity to run this system. So just goes into this point right here. Then we have our antenna which is an interior antenna. And they do have a specific distance that these two need to be away so, away from each other. So check your manual to make sure that you've got the antenna far enough away from the inside antenna. But you wanna put this in an area that's nice and open typically in the kitchen area or the living room. Somewhere where you've got a, a wide variety of open space. It will go through the signal, would actually go through wood, walls, doors. It will not penetrate steel. So in a building like this, we're probably not gonna be able to get it to go through a steel wall. But we could have it outside, this, outside and bring our coax through here because typically buildings like this are notorious for not having a good cell phone reception inside of it. So, the basic components once again is we've got a pole with our outside antenna. And this is an important part we get a lot of questions from people saying, "Well can I get internet with this?" You get internet, it, it's a cell phone reception from the towers. The only way to get internet is to have some type of a hotspot or provider, either in your phone or something like Verizon, like this that, that I use as a hotspot. And it will work that way then it takes a cell phone to the wifi. But you got a, a pole here we're gonna mount it outside, bring our coax in through the slide room seal to our booster. 32 time boost into our interior antenna. So, and we can do a variety of different devices with it, so we can get cell phone reception just about anywhere. If you have a smaller unit then in a little less, a little more portable type of the deal is the Drive 4G-X RV. And now this is gonna have a smaller antenna that's pretty much permanently mounted on the top of the vehicle. It could go to a ladder rack, got brackets that they could put it up on the top, bring the coax in either into the roof vent and through a slide room if you want. They also have in the kit, a small little drill bit you could put a hole through the side of the RV with the grommet and bring it in that way. It has a little different booster but it's the same type of situation. Both these are gonna run off of, either 120 volt power that is converted to a five volt or if you're boondocking it does have a 12 volt connection, so you don't have to have electricity in, in both of these. This would then go to the inside antenna as well which is this model here. So it's not permanently mounted it's gonna be in a table or something like that inside the coach. So, a variety of different products help you to eliminate those dead spots, those dropouts and boost your cell phone signal, anywhere you're going.