RV Connectivity
RV & Overlanding
Three ways to get online, wherever you go
You never know what you are pulling into. Some sites have no tower, some have too many trees for Starlink, some have campground Wi-Fi that is technically there and unusable. Truly unlimited 5G on T-Mobile, in a router that can run all three and switch between them, from people who actually camp.
Authorized T-Mobile MVNO · No usage cap · Month to month · Pause for $10 when you store it · Billing starts at activation
The problem with mobile internet is that you are mobile
Every time you pull into a new campground you inherit a new set of internet problems. The site that worked great last spring has a dead tower this year. The one with five bars is under a canopy of Douglas fir. The park advertises Wi-Fi and it collapses at 7pm when everyone starts streaming.
One connection is a gamble. What you actually want is three, and something smart enough to move between them without you crawling under the dinette.
Cellular that is genuinely unlimited.
Not "unlimited until 100GB." Not a plan that gets cancelled out from under you in the middle of a season.
Starlink where the sky is clear, not where the rig is parked.
The dish needs to be somewhere else. Getting its signal back inside the coach is its own problem.
Campground Wi-Fi when it happens to be good.
It occasionally is. When it is, it is free bandwidth, and most routers cannot use it at all.
One router, three WAN sources, drag to reorder
The GL.iNet Spitz AX is $379, and it is what Chris runs in his own RV. It takes all three connections at once and lets you set the priority order in about a minute after you park.
1. Cellular, on a Crosstalk Mobile unlimited SIM. Dual SIM slots. One 5G modem, so you cannot run both slots at the same time, but you can keep two carriers loaded and switch to whichever is stronger where you are sitting.
2. Starlink Mini, hardwired into the Ethernet WAN port. Run power and Ethernet out through the pass-through storage compartment and walk the Mini out to the clearest patch of sky. Do not use the Mini's own Wi-Fi. If the dish is 50 feet from the camper, every device inside has to punch through the RV wall to reach it. Feed it into the router instead and let the router put out Wi-Fi from inside the coach where your devices are.
3. Campground Wi-Fi, as a WAN connection. Repeater mode connects to the park's network and uses it as an internet source, and you can test what you actually get before you commit to it.
Then in Multi-WAN you drag the three into whatever order makes sense for that site, in failover or load balancing mode. Whatever sits on top is primary, and the router slides down the list when it drops.
Your signal should not have to fight through the wall
The Spitz AX has six antenna connectors, four cellular and two Wi-Fi, and it ships with paddle antennas for all six. You can absolutely just use those. You will also lose real signal doing it, because your cellular has to punch through the side of the RV to reach open air.
The better answer is a rooftop antenna. Low profile, IP69K, no ground plane required, 15 feet of coax, and the leads drop straight onto the router with no adapters. Cellular does a lot better in open air, and roof mounted beats interior antennas every time.
The two Wi-Fi leads are a judgment call. Run them to the roof and you get better campground Wi-Fi as WAN. Leave the paddles on the router and you get better Wi-Fi for the phones and laptops living inside the coach. One signal or the other passes through the wall, so pick the one you use more.
9 to 36 volts DC, no inverter in the middle
The Spitz AX ships with a 12 volt 2.5 amp AC adapter, but it also takes direct DC input anywhere from 9 to 36 volts through a standard 5.5 × 2.1mm barrel jack, under 14 watts. So it runs straight off the house batteries in a camper or a van without an inverter sitting in the path burning power.
If you have ever sized a solar system, you already know why that matters.
Truly unlimited, and it stays that way
$149 a month, or $119 a month billed annually, which saves $360 a year. Month to month, cancel anytime. The SIM works in any 5G cellular router, so if you already have one you like, you do not have to buy ours.
No usage threshold and no overage billing. Not a soft cap that quietly throttles you at 100GB. Our live customers regularly run many times the data other providers publish as their limits, with no change in service.
Where that does not hold
During a natural disaster or a major event the carrier prioritizes emergency traffic and everyone on the network can be deprioritized. That is true of every provider on every US carrier, including us.
Higher network priority than a typical reseller SIM. This is the part most people conflate with "unlimited." The threshold is when you get moved to the back of the line. Priority is where you sit in line the rest of the time. Most cheap MVNO SIMs run at the lowest tier, which is why they feel slow at 4pm next to a loaded tower even when you have used almost no data. We sit above that. The specific level is covered by our agreement with T-Mobile so we cannot publish it, but it is a real difference and it is why heavy users do not run into trouble on our lines.
Billing starts when you activate. Not when the SIM ships. You do not pay for transit time.
Pause it for the winter instead of cancelling it
Most rigs do not run twelve months a year. When you store yours, pause the line for $10 a month instead of cancelling and starting over in the spring.
Reactivation is immediate. Pull it out of vacation mode and the line is back.
One thing to know if you have a static IP
Pausing releases it. We take the static off the line and the address goes back into the pool, so the one you get when you add it again will be a different address. You are not billed the $5 while the line is paused, so this costs you nothing in money. It costs you the address. Most RVers do not have a static IP and this never comes up. If you do, and you have cameras or a VPN pointed at it, either skip the pause or point those at a hostname instead of a hardcoded IP so the address changing stops mattering. Call us and we will set that up with you.
Authorized, with a direct carrier agreement
A lot of RVers have been burned. Plans sold by resellers working around carrier terms get shut off in the middle of a season, and the whole provider sometimes goes with them. If you have followed the RV internet space for the last few years you know exactly which ones.
Crosstalk Mobile is an authorized T-Mobile MVNO. We have a direct wholesale agreement, we are not reselling somebody else's consumer plan, and there is nothing about how this is set up that a carrier audit would unwind.
Crosstalk Solutions has been designing and deploying networks for ten years, and the channel that got us here is the same one that answers the phone.
You call us, and a network engineer picks up
Nobody wants to be diagnosing a cellular problem from a campsite. When something is not working you get a person who designs networks for a living, not a script reader asking you to power cycle a router you already power cycled.
888-381-7750, call or text, Monday through Friday, 6:30am to 5pm Pacific
CustomerService@CrosstalkMobile.com
What we are not
We run on T-Mobile only. No roaming to AT&T or Verizon. T-Mobile's 5G footprint is strong in a lot of places the other two are not, and for most travel it is fine. But if your favorite spots are deep in country where T-Mobile is thin, the right answer is a dual SIM router with a second carrier in the other slot, not us telling you coverage is universal. The Spitz AX holds two SIMs specifically so you can do that.
We are not the cheapest. There are $40 and $50 plans out there. Some of them are non-profit programs, some of them are the thing described two sections up. If price is the only variable, we are not going to win that one and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
A $379 router is not a $999 Peplink. More on that below.
The one thing $379 cannot do
When Starlink drops and the Spitz AX fails over to cellular, you are offline for a second while it switches. Watching Netflix or surfing, you will not notice. Sitting in a Zoom call that cannot blink, or pushing a live broadcast from the road, you absolutely will.
That is what SpeedFusion solves. The Peplink MAX BR1 Pro 5G bonds your connections together, which combines the bandwidth while both are up and gives you seamless failover when one goes away. It is $999, it is built like industrial equipment, and it is what we deployed for the Rahal Letterman Lanigan IndyCar team. If you need it, it is hands down the right call.
Most RV families do not. Call us and we will tell you honestly which side of that line you are on.
Why we deploy Peplink · The $379 RV router that replaces a $999 Peplink, almost
The bundle, or just the SIM
Option 1: the RV bundle. Router, low profile rooftop antenna, and truly unlimited 5G, configured and tested together before it ships, all in for less than the price of the Peplink router by itself.
Option 2: just the SIM. $149 a month in whatever 5G router you already own. If your current router is fine, we will say so.
Not sure which? Tell us how you travel, what is already in the rig, and where you actually go, and we will give you a straight answer.
888-381-7750, M-F 6:30a to 5p Pacific · CustomerService@CrosstalkMobile.com
Common questions
Is it really unlimited?
There is no usage threshold and no overage billing. Our live customers regularly run many times the data that other providers cap at, with no change in service. During a natural disaster or major event the carrier prioritizes emergency traffic and everyone on the network can be deprioritized, which is true of every provider on every US carrier.
What network is it on, and does it roam?
T-Mobile. We are an authorized MVNO with a direct carrier agreement. There is no roaming to AT&T or Verizon, so check the coverage map against where you actually travel.
Do I have to buy your router?
No. The SIM works in any 5G cellular router. The bundle exists because it is configured and tested together before it ships, not because the SIM requires it. See the unlimited plan.
Can I pause it when the rig is stored?
Yes, $10 a month instead of cancelling. Reactivation is immediate whenever you are ready to go again.
What happens to my static IP if I pause the line?
It is released. We take the static off the line and the address goes back into the pool, so the one you get when you add it again will be a different address. You are not billed the $5 while the line is paused. If you have cameras or a VPN pointed at that IP, point them at a hostname instead and the change stops mattering. We will help you set that up.
What if I only camp a few weekends a year?
Then the annual plan probably is not for you. Run it month to month and pause it the rest of the year.
Will it work with my Starlink?
Yes. Starlink goes into the router's Ethernet WAN port and becomes one of your connections, with cellular and campground Wi-Fi as the others. The router handles the switching.
Can it use campground Wi-Fi?
Yes, that is repeater mode, also called Wi-Fi as WAN. Worth noting because most consumer routers, including every UniFi device, cannot do it at all.
Do I need a rooftop antenna?
No, the router ships with paddle antennas for all six connectors. You will get meaningfully better cellular with a roof mount, because the signal is not fighting through the RV wall.
Can I run it off my house batteries?
Yes. 9 to 36 volts DC through a standard barrel jack, under 14 watts, no inverter needed.
Is there a contract?
Month to month. Cancel anytime.
When does billing start?
When you activate the SIM, not when it ships. SIMs auto-activate after 60 days if they are sitting unused.
Can I get a static IP?
Yes, $5 a month, on any 5G router, usually provisioned within 24 hours. Most RVers do not need one, but it is there if you want to reach cameras or a thermostat in the rig from outside.