As most of our readers might be aware, Technomadia is our personal blog where we share the travel side of our technomadic lifestyle – and many years ago we branched off our mobile internet & connectivity content to reside over at the Mobile Internet Resource Center instead of here.

Keeping on top of this Resource Center has been our full time careers (aka ‘day jobs’) since 2014.

At the Resource Center, we have helped thousands and thousands of fellow RVers and boaters learn about their options for staying connected, and we love keeping our community up to date on this constantly changing landscape.

We intentionally try not to mix business and pleasure too much on this blog, and we usually avoid talking about anything “mobile internet” related here. But for us, there is a fine line between work and play. Being self-employed and working in a field so closely tied to our personal lives – our work projects are inevitably going to spill over on occasion.

Today’s post is intentionally blurring the lines, and we have a couple of updates from our work life to share with you.

Updated Video Tour of Our Mobile Internet Setup

We are constantly testing new gear that comes out, so what we might be using to keep connected can often differ from one day to the next.

But in the past few months, we’ve consistently come back to a particular setup of using a Pepwave MAX Transit Duo router as our central core. We love that it has dual modems, so we can run two cellular carriers at once.

So since things have settled down a bit, we have updated the documentation of our personal connectivity setup, and we have filmed a new video tour.

Here’s it is:

And if you’d like to follow up with the specifics of each component (antennas, data plans, and our back-up gear/options) our Mobile Internet Setup page has also been updated with all of the latest and tons more details.

NOTE: The folks over at MobileMustHave.com provided us with the MAX Transit Duo as an evaluation unit (we’re not affiliates, but instead they give our premium members a higher discount).

Mobile Internet Video Course – Launched!

For many months now, we’ve been hard at work launching our very first video course to go along with our resources over at the Mobile Internet Resource Center.

After laying out the content in a learning management system, Chris and I converted our casita in Benson, AZ last December to a film studio for a week.

We sat down and filmed 44 unique videos (for a total of nearly 6 hrs of content) – designed to flow from one subject to another.

Here’s a quick sneak peak at the course:

We cover everything starting with assessing your own needs, understanding the challenges, diving into the options of cellular Wi-Fi and satellite and then bringing it all together.

We hired a professional video editor to produce the episodes – bringing in slides and animations to illustrate key concepts.

We are so excited to announce that the course is now ready!

Complete with quizzes, an assessment worksheet and even the ability to book one-on-one office hours with our staff to answer questions.

Whew.. that was a lot of work that hope can help many more tackle this sometimes overwhelming topic.

Unfortunately the debut put us right in the midst of the world going into lock down. But hopefully those gearing up for mobility in the future can utilize this downtime to learn and prepare.

We’re offering a special launch pricing of just $79 to take the course (in addition to a premium membership to our site).

Learn More About This Course

Coverage? Updates – US Cellular, Canada & 5G

I can’t believe we published our mobile app Coverage? (available for iOS and Android) 10 years ago!!

Wow. Where has the time gone?

We created this app (long before we became mobile internet focused as our job) so we could find cellular signal in our own travels to keep connected for working remotely.

This year we’ll be expanding the capability of the app.

First up, our mapping partner (Ookla) has been able to provide us overlays for US Cellular. That new feature just debuted this week in an app update as a free new feature for all.

Next up, Ookla has also been able to get us coverage overlays for the three carriers in Canada – so we can fulfill a long time most requested feature to provide information in the land to the north.

Canada support will be coming out in a month or so as a new in-app purchase for current customers, and perhaps we might even release a dedicated app for Canada too.

And of course, 5G is emerging – and once maps for all of the carriers are available, Ookla should be able to provide us new 5G layers. And once the logistics of the merging T-Mobile and Sprint coverage is done, we’ll consolidate there too.

Mobile Internet… always changing and keeping us busy!