WIFi - 5G Ready Flex installation better than Satellite

[GIZMO1020]

Any Funsters had a 5G Ready Flex Wi-Fi fitted professionally in their motorhome? If so, can you still stream in France and Spain.
We previously had Oyster satellite in our previous motorhome but are wondering if Wi-Fi, is now a better choice.
Many thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Neil S]

Any Funsters had a 5G Ready Flex Wi-Fi fitted professionally in their motorhome? If so, can you still stream in France and Spain.
We previously had Oyster satellite in our previous motorhome but are wondering if Wi-Fi, is now a better choice.
Many thanks for any suggestions.

yes you can stream in Europe if you've enough data in your package and a reliable strong phone signal.
However its not guaranteed to work everywhere as you often get blank spots in some rural parts

 

[97243]

We are new to all of this MoHo malarkey, but I have just kitted our van with a TP Link 4G M7350 MiFi router (72€) with a full roaming 200Gb SIM card at £20 per month sent directly from RWG Mobile in South Wales. Popped the SIM into the router and it fired up immediately. The last couple of weeks we have been cruising about our rural part of France and the combination is working a treat. The TV in the van wasn't of the smart variety, so an Amazon Fire TV stick at less than 45€ has put that right. I already subscribe to ExpressVPN, so downloading that onto the Fire TV stick has given complete flexibility on geo-location without loss of speed.

Having read that routers often need an antenna, I am pleased to report that this wonderful piece of kit has worked perfectly well when placed anywhere in the van. Today we chose a location for lunch after consulting the 4G map of the area and in what should have been a dead spot, a Speedtest showed a 25Mb download with a laptop, 2 phones and the TV linked.

 

[ChrisL]

In my experience 4G coverage in France and Spain has been excellent, with better coverage then in the UK, I was using a Tesco mobile unlimited sim.

 

[Neil S]

In my experience 4G coverage in France and Spain has been excellent, with better coverage then in the UK, I was using a Tesco mobile unlimited sim.

that wasn't my experience , when we were following the TDF this year we found many mountain roads and valleys had coverage but not good enough to stream live TV but ok for calls and texts
Thankfully satellite saved the day

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[ChrisL]

that wasn't my experience , when we were following the TDF this year we found many mountain roads and valleys had coverage but not good enough to stream live TV but ok for calls and texts
Thankfully satellite saved the day

Occasionally you might need to manually select a network whilst roaming, I only had to do that once on my trip, you might find a strong 3G signal will stream better then a weak 4G signal.

 

[Speve]

Hi GIZMO1020 I purchased motorhome WiFi 5g flex ready system and installed myself it works really well I purchase a Tiekom data sim and it has always performed well the new one has a 200gb roaming allowance so able to use in Portugal and France in fact any Eu country and the UK. Bye the way I removed our Oyster V dish set up as it kept breaking down after many repairs we gave up and have no regrets WiFi is as good and you don’t have a dish to worry about if the wind gets up.
here are details of sim if you are interested Just drop Camino an email.

On 26 Jun 2023, at 11:04, camino.arias <camino.arias@tiekom.com> wrote:

Hello!

Thanks for contacting Tiekom
Please find here more information about our New Data sim 400GB:

• Speeds up to 150MB
• 400GB data / month in Spain
• 200Gb data / month roaming in EU (zone1)
• 4G and 5G coverage
• FREE activation fee and no commitment to remain
• Monthly fee 43,90€

This sim card can be used in these countries:
Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Martinique Island, Reunion Island, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania, Sweden, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican.

We can pause the service of the sim card when you are not using it (monthly cost 3€)

We can post the sim card to your address:
International Shipments…shipping cost 15€
National Shipments… shipping cost 8,50€
and you can set it up whenever you need and wherever you are. Sim cards are always shipped deactivated, so please contact me as soon as you get your sim card to set it up.

Be aware that delivery process overseas can take 10 days.

We are very flexible and payment can be made by direct debit on your bank account, credit card and bank transfer.

It’s billed monthly for a calendar month and the first month is done pro rata.

Attached I have sent you the customer details form you can complete and send me back. I will need please a pic of your passport document.
Once I have registered you as a client in our system, you will receive a welcome mail from Tiekom with a username and password which will enable you to get into the customer area. You will be able to make the payment by credit card and download your invoices using this tool.

It’s very important to make the payment of the service the first week of the month (once you have received the invoice by email from our admin department).


I am at your disposal for any further information you may require.



Best regards / Beste Grüße / Un saludo

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