New cellular internet routers and answering your questions! Rural internet solution  

After struggling through little to no internet for 3 years, you have helped us to finally have usable internet at our home! We did cellphones in the window, hotspots, HughesNet, waited for StarLink to never come, etc. and the best we had was 1 Mbps down, .3 Mbps up, with latency over 1000 ms. Once we got NetBuddy with a MIMO antenna, our speeds drastically increased -- over 7 Mbps down, over 5 Mbps up, and under 100 ms latency. I know those speeds are pitiful to those that have options, but we'll take them any day over what we had! We can now stream multiple videos, play online games, surf the web... all at the same time! Thank you, Mr. Kelley, for the recommendation!

Thanks for some actionable knowledge that I can actually can try/ test for myself. Learning that "unlimited" cellular plans do exist was a game changer. Into it.

Thanks so much for the series on your internet progress. We too are rural and I had a service all set up and was running nicely with a Netgear M1 router but got an email that they were not going to be able to offer service anymore. Was back searching on the tube again to see what I could find and found you and NetBuddy. Got my router last week, super quick shipping, and am now up and running! Getting much better speeds with their router over the M1 AND the service is much cheaper! Thanks again!

Love my Netbuddy router! One thing to add would be to back the current settings before changing anything. There is a reboot option for my router that I have set so no need for a external timer. Thanks again for all the information and testing.

Interesting Andrew. Enjoyed your review. 👍👍. ❤️❤️. 🇨🇦

I love your home! That loft is great!

Hi, Andrew! As always you have done proper research and provided high quality content. My son in law is chairman of Rutherford County Commissioners. One of the most challenging problems they deal with is acquiring good cell and internet service for rural residents. It’s three steps forward and two steps back. It’s very frustrating. See you Sunday. 😊

Yaay, Andrew in his office!!!😃 May you have many happy productive days there:))))

Great update and information.

Since your original video I bought the router and have been extremely happy. I have had great service. Every three or 4 days I have to reset the system. Which I have had to do with my phone and mifi system. Thanks for the update. Glad you also got the affiliate link also.

I really enjoy the these videos especially the cellular/wifi thing thanks❤

Loved This!

Awesome educational video. Love the content.

Something to think about; most of the cellular towers are owned by tower companies and they rent space on their towers for cellular, tv,911 a n other critical service.

I don't know if you're planning to do this already, but you might consider taking one of these routers and hooking them up to a portal battery (eco flow or similar) and testing your speed at other areas of your property. If you find a spot that gets a better speed, you could build a shed or something in that area and power it off solar. Then run fiber from that spot back to your house and connect to another wireless access point or use a wireless point to point system to get the signal back to your house.

AWWW HYPE!!!! I've been waiting for this video

I am in a similar situation as you, but different... I am working on building my internet set up in my tiny little teardrop trailer to go explore the USA and still be able to work 8 hours a day. I was wondering if you have ever tried any of the more expensive cellular routers like Pepwave and Cradlepoint. I would LOVE to see how they compare to your current router. I love the price point of your router, but I am curious to know if these other routers are any faster. If you don't know about them, one big advantage in both of those brands is that there are two SIM slots per cellular modem, an A and B. You can configure the system to switch between them if the signal goes down. While it is not immediate, it does save you from having to physically switch the SIMS. Another cool thing is they make routers with 2 cellular modems in one router. There are multiple ways to configure it to run. One way is to combine the bandwidth from both to increase your overall speed. Another approach is failover: If your primary goes down it will automatically and immediately start using the second modem until the connection is reestablished with the primary modem. Again each modem has an A & B SIM slot for a total of four SIM cards. It can get expensive, but you can get some really cool internet!

4g & 5g cellular home broadband becoming popular here in the UK - rural & urban dwellers are getting into it as it's working out cheaper as ADSL is being phased out & people are being forced onto more expensive fibre connections.

A lot of these types of online businesses won't have brick & morter or even phone numbers to keep overhead low, which allows for the competitive pricing that they can offer. Typically, they also won't have a large staff and will expand their staff as they grow. If emails are responded to in a timely fashion, then that's a good thing.

Great video just subscribed. I gotta asked have you tried lowering the Waveform antenna below the peak off the house. The antenna will put up “noise” from other towers or electrical devices like an omi antenna being over the roof line. A lot of time the building (well your house) helps to focus the signal just directly to the tower your aiming to eliminating “noise” that slows your speeds done (so the house helps the antenna like a satellite dish). (I’m not Rich by the way. My RU-vid name is just something I came up with years ago to support his channel) . Ok let me know? Great channel. thanks George

I use a cheap used Huawei B525s, got it for 50€(new one goes for 120-140€), works like a charm, and it has the option of either internal antenna or external antenna (can also use third party antenas) for greater range and signal strength, but it isn't needed as it works great. I get 32ms ping with 10Mbit/3Mbit speeds (that is the limit of my contract).

I live in Florida..if I lived closer I would help you improve those speeds a bit. I recommend Proxicast Cellular Antennas. They are probably the best. It's also important to play with the antenna and testing the connection each time you switch directions. Sometimes it isn't optimal to point directly at the tower. More times than not it needs to be turned towards it but not directly at the tower for best signal. I know you can easily get into the hundreds on download speeds and close to that on upload speeds and if you do a lot of uploading then you need to change from an N41 to an N71. N41 caters to download whereas N71 is good for both.

I use visible 30.00 in a unlocked hotspot at my apartment and Metro by T-Mobile at home internet here in my camper van

Yep 4x4 mimo LTE is very good if you got a cat 8 cat12 or more LTE modem chipset you'll get better LTE speeds

I found your videos while looking for options for the internet. My area has no good internet. The only thing around was CenturyLink, which has a cool 1.5megs download for $60/month . I got that new router you got with a t-mobile card . I'm around 30 to 40 megs download no external antenna . the first day I got up to 272 megs, then drop to where I'm at right now . I'm going with external antennas soon but very happy with what I'm getting so far ,especially for 40 dollars per month . Thank you !!

You should do a test at the other side of your house for 5G, You could do a test like this person does in his video "AFFORDABLE High Speed Internet Anywhere - My RURAL INTERNET Setup Revealed!! video from Silver Cymbal" You could setup with your older waveform high gain antennas on a poll on a slab of wood and the router hooked up to one of your EcoFlows and sit out the back with your laptop, You can easily aim your antennas by rotating the slab around.

With my T-Mobile home Internet gateway I’ve gotten a maximum of 630 down but I typically stay between three and 400 down with 30 ms ping and usually about 80 or 90 up speeds. T-Mobile aggregates 4G LTE with 5G and that’s why the speeds can be so good.

Hi! Thank you for your thorough videos. I am trying to connect a mimo 4x4 antenna to a net buddy/suncomm 5g o1 router and can’t find information on which cable goes to which port on the router. If you have any information I would be greatly appreciative. Thank you!

I live in north Florida in the middle of no where I have T-mobile home internet it works half the time with our budget having no limited internet is awesome I would love to try one of these net buddy routers just would have to wait to get the money to buy on hopefully soon we tired of buffering and not being able to use our laptop while someone is watching TV satellite internet is way to expensive

I am between these two routers also. Cudy seems to have slightly better WiFi specs. Net buddy told you the suncomm had better connection with T-Mobile, but I have to ask if the Cudy you tested has the 520N modem or one of the other modems? Another deciding factor for me is the network and WiFi settings. I can’t find much on the Suncomm to even see if it can do a DMZ or DNS over TTL. I would have been interested on the test with the Cudy on the waveform antennas. Seems like the Cudy held the signal, I’m sure with some channel locking you might have been able to keep the Suncomm on 5G also?

I’m trying to build my house in a similar way as your ( metal trusses) what does your wall assembly look like ?

I've recently purchased the suncomm router in this video. So far it's great but I have one issue I don't know how to fix. These router use CGNAT. This causes a double NAT situation. Does anyone know how to fix this

what about using a we-boost to boost the 4G LTE signal? (Live in rural Indiana)

Love your videos. Been exploring how to get internet to my cabin in the woods. If I get a router, do I have to buy an att plan or would can I just use an att sim card in the router? Att is the only tower in our area. Have a weboost & get 4 bars on it through att.

Looks like a great opportunity for most people. I guess I am still too rural. I contacted Verizon and they said no external antenna will work for them even though my house is surrounded by their towers. AT&T and T-Mobile said the same thing. Maybe I'm a little late to the show. Net Buddy doesn't have anything in stock it seems.

I'm surprised you haven't tried using your old 4 antennas on your back pouch with your router without mounting it to your roof to test the 5G coverage, since the router was able to pickup 5G inside on the desk it should certainly pick something up.

Use a different address to get TMobile at home the modem can be used anywhere

I had Nettbudy a few years ago. I started with AT&T with them until AT&T dump their old plan the MVNOs were using and then T-Mobile through Nettbudy until that got dropped and they switched me back to another AT&T plan. About 6 months later they basically closed my SIM and my account and disappeared with no communications. I’m with another MVNO now in my remote RV location but my new Virginia property I need an internet solution. I am on the list for T-Mobile home internet and need something in the meantime and the Nettbudy T-Mobile plan would fit well but very leary about going with them again. Any thoughts?

When they ran fiber at my farm in Ky. My bill went from $76.00 to $143.00 a month and service was bad

Love your content, have you played around with band locking?

Also, if your gaming and not uploading then you don't need fast upload. You need fast download but here is the kicker with gaming consoles. The Xbox and Playstation do have nice network cards that are compatible for up to 1gb but their online networks block those high speeds, acting as a choking point, because they don't want some folks having such a huge advantage in online game play. So getting more than 400mbps is probably not going to happen. I get over 300mbps on my PS4 Pro. Would get 900+ but PlayStation Network blocks those ultra speeds

do you have a video out on how you installed your cable through your outside wall and made it waterproof on the exterior side?

Goodmorning sir well I bought one of these from netbuddy it’s the cudy lte 18 4g will 2x2 mimo work or do I need the 4x4

A question for the power cycle reset for a phone to get higher on priority list. Do you have to do a power cycle on a phone to achieve the lift on the priority list or can you simply turn off your Mobile Data in the settings and turn it back one to achieve the results?

I have the arc Verizon box connected via pig tail adapters to a 4x4 mimo panel. I then connected my Xbox to the Verizon box with an Ethernet cable and the speeds are….manageable, but my question is if I were to put the Verizon arc gateway back to stock condition and add a router to the Verizon box and make the arc a modem only via online, and then connected my Xbox to the router using Ethernet, would I see any improvement at all since either way I’m using a wired connection? Thank you for any help it’s been a journey trying to figure all of this out to only achieve minimal results so I’m just trying to see how far I can go to stay connected and your channel has been a huge help!

Hello! So glad I found your channel. Just watched both videos of you covering this topic. My husband and I are thinking about moving to a more rural area, and I worry about internet coverage as I work from home and we stream Netflix, video games, etc. I apologize if this is a silly question or was already answered elsewhere and I missed it - but for the tower coverage area, if the property is not in the highlighted coverage zone of one of the towers, does that mean slim chances of this method working?

What type of prepaid SIM card do you use? Is it a data only? Where do you get the data only SIM cards?

You might be on TMO band n71 that's why your TMO 5g speeds are crappy b n41 is the ultra capacity band it's aggragated with b66 LTE or b13 or B2 most times

Question: have you tried just purchasing the Sims from net Buddy. Then purchasing your own router online through another company. Does net Buddy sims card come activated already.

Awesome video. I asked a similar question on another video you made, but I just found this video and it's more applicable because you cover a setup that's identical to mine. I've got the new Netbuddy Suncomm modem paired with the Waveform 4x4 panel. What connection order did you use between the modem and the panel antenna? I've tried all sorts of variations and haven't been able to get a steady, reliable, connection to T-Mobile. Currently I'm using 1, 3, 2, 4 - numbered clockwise from the back left corner of the modem. I would greatly appreciate you're help with this because I'd like to confirm if it's a setup issue on my end, or if it's just that T-Mobile won't work in my area.

I ordered the Cudy but how can I add an outdoor antenna

Cell mapper is not working on my laptop and the app is some Finder app that has nothing to do with cell towers. Any advice? When i search USA it only shows Sprint and T mobile but the map is basically blank. I can't move it or anything.

Thanks for your help on this! I have a cabin on the river in the TAG area of Alabama. Zero cell signal at the cabin. Bought the waveform directional antenna and the netbuddy with the T-Mobile SIM card. Mounted the antenna on the roof and pointed it in the general direction of the tower. Storms blew in on me. Went inside and tested it and had 28mbps. Can’t wait to get back up there and fine tune it. 🫡

Any thoughts on this Cudy vs GL.iNet GL-X3000 (Spitz AX)

I really enjoy watching your informative videos, I believe I have watched all your videos on wireless internet. I'm considering using one of these for security cameras in my shop, it is all metal. From your experience do you think this will get enough signal without an external antenna for security cameras? I see where Verizon is offering wireless internet for $25.00 a month with a 10 year price lock! i have got to dig a little deeper and see if that is limited or unlimited usage before I choose a carrier and order my router. Any guidance and suggestion would be helpful thanks.

Thanks for the cellular information. Up here we are lucky to get good 4G and 5G is non existent

What do you use to reboot your modems automatically?

Is that cudy router the 4G LTE Cat.18? really wating that for my Motorhome, is that good? PLanning to try it out if it is a huge diference from my little hotspot i wont buy an 4x4 mimo external antenna if not i will but the 4x4 antenna eheheh

i have one big issue does this run as a hotspot design? how does it transfer a cell service to a wifi service .

I’m currently getting 228mb download and 11.8mb upload with Spectrum, SE of Dayton, OH.

I do have a question regarding cellular routers for internet and cell phone boosters like WeBoost. Do you have to get both to cover the cell phone signals and the internet or would the cellular router cover both the internet and cell phone signals. I am about to order the Netbuddy and if that covers both I would be very happy but if it doesn't I would also get the WeBoost as well, thanks.

What will work with the same router That’s from the website but I bought the router from Amazon

I have been watching your videos and have purchased a Mofi cellular router/waveform antenna, because like you my options for internet at our house in AZ were limited. I purchased a Visible sim card based on our Verizon phones working fair at that location. We have not had very good success YET. I'm not giving up... When you get sim card from a provider, do you specify a data only card? I have been thinking about getting a Cricket sim based on a friend's phone having pretty good speed at that location. Thanks for the info!

Do you know if one can set the IMEI on the MOFI5500 cellular routers?

I've already got tmobile gone internet. Is it possible to simply purchase a cudy cellular router and switch my sim over?

Y'all might have some good news coming soon. If you're on the electric co-op, they may be running fiber in your area. Our's did that and we love it!

I have been trying to get a Net Buddy Data only wifi router now forever, but they have been sold out forever and behind shipping schedules for parts they say. Do you know of any other supplier of the devices that come with the data plan only sims? I have been unable to get a good data plan sim as well. Just digging for help, sorry to bother.

What website do you use for Speed Test.?

Hey Mr Kelley on that cudy I have 3 blue lights and 1 red is that normal

Sorry for bugging but is there any help you can offer with the cudy router at first it was working now it don’t have any download or upload speed I messaged the guy from netbuddy and he basically said just return it I’m not a tech expert I’m just trying to get it goin within my 10days if not I can’t return it

Anyone know if the cudy routers work with a firstnet sim?

I have seen Starlink advertised here. Just looked at there site. Just over double what I pay now so no intention of going with them. But looking at the coverage map, they do all of Australia except a few areas around Brisbane and Sydney. Other providers must have a monopoly on those areas. Looks the same in your region, maybe political issues.

Which sim router will be best fot business? Let me know please?

You keep talking about different SIM cards from different providers but who provides the SIM card? Can I just go to a carrier for example Verizon T-Mobile AT&t and pick up one of their SIM cards

If I buy one on Amazon where do I get the nano SIM card from?

cudy are the best. I like the $69 budget AX 3000. Oh Maaaaaaaane

As a newbie to this type of technology, what would a Verizon jet pack do numbers wise. My campground WiFi is terrible and wife uses hot spot for work and we also use it to stream television. We are close to towers, nearest one is about a mile away.

Is 129mbps up and 28mbps down considered good internet speed ?

Is net buddy no longer providing data plans? I just got an email from them stating that I have to go get my own data plan now?

Thank you for the video and showing how to find the towers. You said that you have your router set to turn off and back on in the middle of the night. How do you do that?

I got the netbuddy router with AT&T service. I have over 200 mbp but everything buffers! Any ideas?

Okay, now I feel really stupid. I have that same SunComm 5G router from Netbuddy and the Waveform 4x4 panel antenna with that same wire set up but I could’ve swore my instructions, instructed me to attach the antenna cables to the back of the router. I don’t have it in front of me because it’s up at my cabin but in your video I just saw you have it attached to your side antenna ports on the router. I’m guessing you’re doing it right and I misinterpreted and I’m doing it wrong?

Any news on xmartfi

I got a question is cellular routers for iPhone also ? Or only android

Is there any solution for people that have their own LTE or 5G router and want to buy an unlimited sim?

Was it just me or was the ping lower after plugging into the external antenna?

Yes! Thanks for Cellmapper overview. Terrible website from user friendly ness Netbuddy routers are sold out! Argh Can you list what 3rd party data plans you have used

does each device connected to these routers get their own unique IP address?

Can you update IMEI on that router?

hi, really appreciate your reviews of these cellular routers for those of us that are living in the sticks. Based on your videos i did buy the top of the line cudy 5 G router, i looks the the one on your countertop and the 4 antenna kit. And i bought the $50/month home internet plan from t-mobile. But the router cannot get a signal from the t-mobile tower 2.4 miles away. I called t-mobile and the gal in tech support said she thought i would need to get their t-mobile "gateway" to piggyback to the cudy router. She said the ime# for the router is different than what she is showing in my account. Is this true that i need a t-mobile "gateway", or is there a workaround for this? Thanks for any info.

I have a spare phone with an unlimited plan, could I just take the sim out and put it into the router?!?

What are you all using for internet now?

Why would you use a device that requires that you use the plan provided by the manufacturer, you can buy cellular routers that have a sim card slot. You can get much better plans that way.

I cant seem to get hiboost 4k to work decently at all :\

Is it me or it looks like you attached your wifi antennas to external antennas instead of 5g antennas

The "need for brick and mortar" is a bit baffling. This is already aimed at people who live in the middle of nowhere. And yet those people still expect a brick and mortar store? In the middle of nowhere? Used to use T-Mobile in a USB modem connected to a regular wifi router. It worked great. There is very bad T-Mobile coverage where I now live and I have to endure Comcast.

Bummer it's been one month and they're already sold out

1st?

You do realize that TMobile at home is cheaper and the modem is free too

I tried netbuddy and it worked for 1 month. After the first month, I started getting a message stating my att account ran out of data. I sent them emails for 3 weeks and never heard back from them, so I had to cancel the service. Absolutely worst customer service I have ever seen.