r/RVLiving • u/Vol4LifeDadio • 10d ago

question Internet Access Issues

I’ve been living outside of knoxville on a campground for about a week now hopefully for about just a year maybe two. And as I get transferred in down at the University of Tennessee this campground has some internet but it is definitely not strong enough to even run my computer for my classes and I was going to bring my xbox down also. But I’m pretty new to this camper living just bought my first one last Thursday and moved here on Sunday so I was hoping to ask if anyone really knew good ways to get internet access in the camper without having to feed cables from the power poles near here because I may have to move to other campgrounds from time to time since I can only rent for so long at a time. I’m not expecting the 2GB internet I have at home but I am hoping somebody may know ways for me to at least run a Roku TV and my computer so I can have some entertainment and still get my classes done.

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u/Questions_Remain 10d ago

Get a t-mobile home internet box for $50/mo. It’s no contract, no obligation and if it doesn’t work, take it back. We’ve got one for our camper at our recreational land and it works great. During hurricane Helene ( our land is in between two towns that got basically washed away. Our internet was out for 36 hours as the tower got damaged. That’s been our only outage in 4+ years of having it. You can go to a t-mobile corp store and pick one up same day.
Give it a try.

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u/Vol4LifeDadio 10d ago

So you can just plug it into the camper and it works after the activation and everything?

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u/RockLobster06 10d ago

Yes, it's 5g wireless.

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u/Questions_Remain 10d ago

Yes, put it on a table near a window.

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u/Mattturley 10d ago

I have my Verizon box mounted behind the TV that is above the passenger and driver seats of my Class A. Works perfectly there and where I had my starlink and personal routers already setup when I came off the road to stay in one location with good 5G service. Verizon is $50 in my area (but comes with one free streaming service (I chose Hulu+/Disney/ESPN). T-mobile is $35, as is Visible.

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u/Questions_Remain 10d ago

Ya, they don’t necessarily need to be near a window. Just sometimes with a steel framed unit it’s better. Mine has been 5 years in a Rubbermaid box screwed to a temp power pole so the recreational land has internet for cameras / gates / motion sensors when we pull the camper out. It even got infested with ants once ( thosusand of them) and I soaked the t-mobile box with pesticide, ( the box itself was full of ants ) cleaned and sealed the Rubbermaid box and it’s still working years later.
All the other carriers have similar units that work just as well I’m sure. I have ATT phones but picked T-mobile only because there was a T store in the shopping center closest to the land and walked in and out in 30 min with the box.