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No worries, glad it was helpful. I'd not looked at the AMR104X before - I don't recognise the hardware and the form factor doesn't fit with any of the main manufacturers I know, so its possible its been reboxed - or its unique to Avtex. There are also very few pictures and no technical spec of it online which doesn't help (Avtex don't even have the User Manual on their site unnlike their other models) . If I can get my hands on one to look at I'll see if I can find any more out. Looking at what little of the spec is shared, it's quite unusual, with its built in screen (most Pro models avoid this on mobile routers to save power) and having 4x4 mimo antenna connections with a low spec Cat 6 modem (most others start adding 4x4 mimo connections with Cat 12+ when they would be more benefit) I'm not sure 4x4 MiMo will bring much benefit with only a Cat 6 modem. But including a 4x4 Mimo Antenna at least makes it more viable if you upgraded the router later. It would be interesting to see how much admin configuration / remote management is possible as that will indicate where it sits on the Consumer - Professional scale, but I can't find any info on that currently. I'll keep an eye out for more info and update if I work out more. Thanks for pointing it out!
The RUTX50 is just a terrible router! I would say the router is still in Alpha mode not even Beta mode. Much better is getting a Zyxel outdoor 5 G router or even just getting an external antenna and using a normal TPlink Deco 5G router. The speed difference is about 100x or more!!! Also the ethernet port is 1G ... so even if you could get 3.3 G speeds it would not be through LAN. Very disappointing especially as I forked out a lot of money to buy 4 of these.
Hi can you share a few more details about what problems you have faced, so others can learn from it? Have you reached out to Teletonika? I have found them and their Crowd Source support forum extremely helpful in the past. Any issues we have faced have generally been down to user error rather than a problem with the kit. The Zyxel NR7102 is only single SIM so not really comparable, its antennas are directional, so not good for on the move and for mobile use it would have to keep being repositioned eachtime you moved. Personally I wouldn't want nearly £500 of kit outside where it could be stolen. The TP Link Deco only has a Single SIM too, is essentially a consumer Router so doesn't have the level of configuration of the Teltonika and only has 2x2 Mimo antenna connection which means it is not going to be able to maximise the band usage on the 4G+ or 5G networks when using an external antenna and the TS9 connectionss are very prone to damage and coming loose when on the move. For us the only real close competitor to the RUTX50 is the GLiNet GL-X3000 which you can see our review of here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-584LyEDFdiY.html
@@ExploreVanUK Yes of course I had long trouble shooting sessions with the Teletonika support, which I must admit was very good as they went through several live cam sessions. I was testing using the Waveform 4x4 MIMO antenna and just trying to equate to the speed of a normal Huwawei 5G router or a TP-Link Deco router ... without any antennas. We tried everything, from using the normal "ear" antennas provided and also other antennas I had on hand including the incredibly powerful Waveform 4x4 MIMO antenna and Teletonika own outdoor 4 x 4 MIMO antenna (seems like it fits on hood of car or boat). But results were horrible compared to the default 5G routers. I was then told to try the TRB500, which has no wifi and one sim ... and I bought a bunch of those as well ... and on first testing results were amazing and equal if not better than the default routers. I thought I found what I needed ... but unfortunately ... the high performance would only last for a few hours and then speeds would drop dramatically. The only way to get performance up again was a full reboot of the system. Just too many things that seem like they are not properly tested and maybe after a year of firmware updates they will fix all issues, but certainly not when I bought the routers. The best performance I got was using a TP-Link Deco 5G router and having it setup for external antenna and then using a 4 x 4 MIMO antenna and having each 2 lines combined on each of the 2 inputs available. I am using this setup at the moment in Milton Keynes UK and where the RUTX50 has a hard time getting 1mb speed the TP-Link is getting over 300mb! Again I feel it is not the electronics that are the problem, but rather the firmware that is severely lacking.
Maxview manufacture their own antennas. Unfortunately they don't publish detailed specifications or independent tests for them. Though they do look like quality products and with a good spec for the price. What we are not keen on is that they have to be mounted through the roof and don't have the flexible options to surface mount, pole mount, rail mount and mag mount like compariable Poynting Antennas.
Hovver air is a simple tool not much of a drone A lot of money for what it is ! Give that a wide birth to bless you like to walk and make a video of yourself talking
It is but is so much faster to set up fly capture a video and move on than the DJI options. Your right it is more of a flying selfie cam than a drone, but it does what it’s supposed to really well. It’s great for sports, I have used it when biking and skiing. No active track on the cheaper DJI models is a huge loss. Saying that it doesn’t replace my DJI Mini but I use the Hover far more.
Why bother putting holes in the bottom of the outer skin if you are going to place it flat on a piece of wood so those holes can’t breathe? The holes on the bottom of the inner skin are still providing air to the fire, but now all of the ash is just going to fall out the bottom.
Fair point. But if you look closely at the wood it’s stood on it has deep groves that allow air flow into the bottom holes. Some legs would be a better option if you wanted to go a step further.
PWM so the control panel but I’m not too sure what solar panel to go on top of the roof. Ideally I don’t want it to stay there all the time because I want to use the roof bars for my kayaks but I’m not too sure go flexible or son to zip tie it’s easy to come off the roof, any help please
Hi funily enough we're just working on a video comparing the Pros / Cons and performance of a Fixed Rigid panel, Vs a Portable Folding panel. It should be out in the next couple of weeks and may help you decide.
Hi all. Great review. But is bangood any good? I hear all sorts good n bad. I see the power station is distributed out of Europe with a UK plug? Feedback and advice welcome. Wouldnt want to end up with a lemon Happy motoring💫
Hi, if you check back in our videos you can see we've reviewed quite a few Banggood products and never had any issues. We've found them easy to orderfrom, their delivery times great (expecially when coming from UK Warehouse), no issues with the products and when coming from abroad all the Tax and import duty is included in the price so no worries about a suprise when it arrives. We use this unit as our primary source of 240v when off grid and have done since we produced the video and it has been faultless.
IKEA storage bags are also useful to stow away duvets, bedding and pillows during the day if you don’t want them to get dirty. Their thin mattress toppers are good if you prefer a softer bed to the one you have. IKEA one ring induction hob is great value and compact even if you have gas and are on hook up. The kitchen area has dividers and hanging solutions that come in handy perhaps with modification depending on your requirements.
I was reading some reviews on the RUTX14 and some have said it was horrendous around mainland Europe which I understand could be down to the sim I guess. I have two needs.... My current 5 yr old HUAWEI mifi box is not great in the vent of my Fiat Ducato self build in a low signal area so I want to improve on that and get a much better signal inside the van when in rural areas in the UK, it's not awful, I can stream Netflix/Prime/BBC most of the time but occasionally have shocking buffering for no reason, box keeps going from green to yellow and there's only one other house in our area. My other need is something that will work in mainland Europe as I travel a lot over there. I would, for example, get a sim in Spain and put it in the router. I'm not liking some reviews at places that sell this router saying how bad it performed abroad. Do you have any experience with this setup when traveling in Spain, France, Germany, Italy for example? I'm guessing I will have to take down some of my wood ceiling to install this unless it goes over the cab where I have just insulation. Could the Poynting Antenna be installed on the slope of the Fiat Ducato above the cab or should it be on a flat level surface? Any advice would be appreciated.
We’ve used various Teltonika routers throughout Europe with no issues but not the RUTX14. However since they are made in Lithuania and sold throughout Europe I’d be extremely surprised if there were issues when used there. I’m not totally clear from what you have said what you are looking to do and what exactly you have at the moment. The range of Huawei devices is vast and you don’t mention if you are using an external antenna already. The RUTX14 being Cat 12 has the potential to out perform most 4G routers with the right antenna and in the right areas.
@@ExploreVanUK - Thanks for the response. My set up is a Huawei MiFi Box E5573 (I think), I put it in the vent of my van to get a better signal, I have no external antennas. I'm happy to go with the Poynting Mimo 5 in 1 or 7 in 1 with a RUTX router, I just don't know which one to go with. I have unlimited data for the UK with Vodafone for the MiFi box and would buy local Sims where I can when abroad. The placement of the Poynting Mimo 5 in 1 or 7 in 1 Antenna is what concerns me. I have a Fiat Ducato self build so not many flat areas on the van roof to put the antenna hence why I asked if it would be okay on the front slope of the van near the top as I have the easiest access for drilling due to no wood ceiling above the cab storage area, only insulation is up there so it would be the easiest place to install the antenna on the outside and drilling in from there. I'm looking to improve the setup I already have with something better which would be an outside antenna and inside router that doesn't need to be positioned in my vent because of the faraday cage effect my metal panel van conversion creates. I want increased signal strength and stability. Thanks.
Hi thanks for the info that makes it easier. The Poynting Mimo will perform best Omni Directionally on a horizontal plane so I wouldnt suggest mounting it on an angle. However there are loads of mounting options with them so I'd be suprised if you can't find a suitable way to mount it on the roof. We have ours surface mounted with magnets and the cable goes through one of the existing cable entry points in the roof of our Iveco. So we didn't need to drill any new holes. It can also be surfaces mounted with adhesive, pole or rail mounted or of course through the roof if you need to. You could even run the cables in through a door or window if really wanted to avoid holes in the roof. The Choice of Antenna model comes down to your choice of Router and both really come down to your budget. If the Router has 4x4 Mimo LTE antenna connections like the RUTX14 or RUTX50 then it really is necessary to have a 4x4 Mimo antenna like the Mimo 3-17 to get the best out of it. If you go for a lower cost router that only has 2x2 Mimo antenna connections then the Mimo 3-15 would be perfect and if you are not bothered about the WiFi repeater function / GPS then the Mimo 3-12 without the external WiFi and GPS antennas would also be an option, you can just use the supplied on unit WiFi antennas. Hope that helps you choose!
I'm a HGV driver and use Copilot, as my work has Copilot on the work PDA, like a phone with a scanner as well and more rugged. I use Copilot to get to the area, and if I can not see the business use Google maps to find it. Obviously don't use Google maps for navigation as you might hit a low bridge or get stuck on a narrow road. But you can not beat Google maps for it's directory of business and addresses.
Hi seen your video on the wifi in the van ,you had bought to have wifi in your van , I've recently bought a static caravan in a remote area which I've to run my power via a generator. I have bought a cctv camera that needs a wifi constant wifi connection but when I'm home obvs there will be no power so is there a way that you would know to get power to keep that say a double / hotspot device running and charged , to provide constant wifi
I have been researching replacing my Teltonika rut950 for my campervan & expected to buy a Teltonika router of some sort. Having watched this video I bought a GL-X3000 and it’s brilliant! I have been out today and it hasn’t missed a beat. Thank you for drawing my attention to it as I hadn’t heard of it before. Brilliant presentation 👍
Hi, you can see the impact the external antennas have in this video. 3G / 4G LTE MIMO MiFi Antenna test / review - Poynting XPOL / Bingfu / Unbranded ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s4nNAjV0oRM.html
I’ve subscribed and hope you can reply I gave 3 battery’s in boot and I only have one of those at the moment do recommend I get another one of Those and link it from the one in boot to the 2 spares battery’s that in line much appreciated a reply
Hi, afraid I’d need to know more about your set up and how it is currently wired to be sure. If it were me and I had three Leisure Batteries of the same type and age I would have them wired in parallel being fed by a single VSR.
My husband and I are travelling to Italy on 28/97/24 and just found out about this .This is the first time we will have ever took a journey by car in Europe .We are struggling with uploading our cars log book as when we try and upload this document from the photographs taken on our phone it states it needs to be be in either png ,pdf JPEG’s this is something not being computer savvy we haven’t got a clue this is another language to us .Can you advise further on how we computer ilterate pensioners can do this are any apps available that we can get that will convert the photos for us .
Hi, I use an Iphone, the problem I had was the size of the photo rather than the type of file. The easiest way to reduce it is to email the photo to yourself. When sending the email you are asked if you want to send it small, medium, large or actual size. Select the one that the file size is small enough. That might be worth a try. If that doesn’t work let me know if you are using iPhone or Android and I’ll see if I can find a free App to help you.
Extending it further from the van? Firstly check you have the WiFi power setting at its highest in the settings. If you have a Mimo4-17 do you have the WiFi antennas connected to the RUTX50?
We're not currently planning to test the Teltonika antenna as it is limited to through the roof installation and quotes a gain of 4 dBi Our current favorite Antenna the Poynting Mimo 4 has more flexible options for mounting and has a gain of 6 dBi
I cant believe a powerstation kept a family in electric for that long 😊 thats great. i dont understand why people have these big electric installations 🤔
It’s down to individuals really, some prefer separates as you can spec each item exactly for your needs and upgrade individual items later, but they are more complicated and usually more expensive for the same spec.
Hi i liked this review 🙂 im going fulltime soon , electrics has really baffled me so i was looking at getting one of these. Some people are reeeeaaaally against them on fb groups 🤔 i dont no if its jus because there stuck in there ways or what. if its simple to use powers what i need thats all that matters 😂
If you know what you’re doing and want to do it all yourself then separates can have their advantages. But for shear simplicity and now cost the Power-station route is very much viable and can be the sensible choice.
All of these inverters have power consumption with 0 load attached. That might be the worst part in battery pawed system, you can drain your batteries without any load attached to the inverter. That might be cause of inefficiency of small load lightbulb. For the efficiency test to be more accurate you should run a test with 50 or 80% of maximum rated power on all inverters. say 75W, 150W, 500W and 750W loads, and then see how efficient is each inverter.
Agreed, to be fully scientific they should also be run at various room temperatures, various degrees of ventilation and with various balances of Inductive, Resistive and Capacitive load. Unfortunately we don’t have the time to do fully exhaustive tests (nor claim to), but we do aim to give a good representation of what can be expected.
"Modified Sine Wave" is a very coarse stair step waveform, not as nearly as good as shown in the diagram in this video. Useless for anything more than an circular saw. For any modern electronics you want only "Pure Sine Wave".
Thanks for your comment. Modified Sine wave isn’t a definitive term and the “quality” of the wave depends on the inverter and how much effort has been put into the wave modification. You’re correct that some can be very course and others are more refined. As you can see in the video of the one we demonstrated (the wave form shown is the representation of the actual wave from an oscilloscope) can run a microwave, so I wouldn’t say it was useless for anything more than a circular saw. They are also not very efficient when running an AC motor so not ideal for a circular saw. Toasters, kettles, water heaters etc are fine on even a course Modified Sinewave. I think we’ve made a reasonable representation from our experience of using Square, Modified and Pure Sine wave Inverters and which we feel are best.
Ordered one on the strength of this video. (Can't get it so cheap anymore, It's about £145 now......) Fitted it on my Lexus RC 300 H (Lux ) which obviously doesn't have a camera but REALLY needs one! Rear vis is awful!! Works really well .... & .... as stated; was easy to fit. Well happy ... And now maybe I will stop reversing into things I couldn't see !!!
There's always accidents happening no matter what people are doing or using. Why don't they crack down on murders, immigration, drug dealers? If there's nothing in it for the government then it's obvious they will crack down on it. You can't have fun unless there is tax on it. There is literally a law for everything in this country that the people had no say in and people believe they live in a free country?
This would need a B2B charger with a Lithium Battery Profile. 2 years ago when we made this video LiFePO4 batteries were a lot more rare than they are today.
Range depends on various factors like terrain, hills, rider weight and wind The quoted range is 110km based on a 75kg rider on flat terrain. In our experience of more varied terrain in real use 70 km is realistic.
I have just bought a Renault kangoo express its so noisy on the road and looking at the back doors close but must be buckled or something as at the top i can put my fingers into the door but not at the bottom
Terrible experuence with a Nighthawk 6450 in Italy. Warning message about extreme high temperatures popping upbon the duspkay every quarter of an hour. I gave it back to Amazon after payung 990 Euros!!!. Now I'm waiting for my money back. I'd likevto try wuth a ZTE 5120. Have someone tested or tried it?
Thanks for sharing thats useful to know! We've not tried the ZTE I am afraid. Though having a built in battery and charging and its smaller physical size might make it susceptible to high temperatures too.
Putting your plates in a bag so you don't have to wash them ? My daughter dies a similar thing, she puts her filthy bowls, plates, and cups under the bed, in cupboards or in drawers, for them to fester and bake on hard, leaving them for more responsible people to wash up when they find them i.e. me.
I think you may have mis-understood. I still wash mine, so the only person I would be inconveniencing is me and it’s my preference to wash everything in one go rather than do multiple small washing up sessions, using more water, time and power. If you want to come and do all my washing up then you’re very welcome.
My question is how do I clean the latch and oil it? I’ve tried mass airflow sensor cleaner and multiple water based oils and silicone based oils and it gets so gunky and I can’t get it cleaned out. Some fresh oil helps it for a little bit but after a single day it’s gunky and rough again. The problem is I can’t open the door from the outside when it’s cruddy, only the inside.
Can’t say for sure as I don’t have that problem. but I’d start with some good quality degreaser and then use lithium lubricant rather than oil / grease.
Hello, thanks for the video. Is there a way to connect the dashcam to an old smartphone with a hotspot with LTE? So that you can connect to the dashcam while you're on the move in parking mode and watch live.
Not that I am aware of I am afraid. The WiFi only acts as a host to connect to for downloading and making changes to settings using rhe App, rather than being able to connect to a hotspot.
