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davidk9356

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Good morning to you all. I am new to the forum having been a Motorhome for several years. During this time we have owned two Motorhomes, a Bailey Autograph and currently an Autosleeper Corinium Duo. Due to my advancing years and wishing my wife to be able to drive independent of myself, we have decided to downsize in length and slim down a bit. We have also decided to incorporate automatic transmission into the equation. After much deliberation we have decided to go with an Adria Compact DL Supreme and have initiated the purchase process, but have until tomorrow to finalise the specification. I would be grateful if any members of the forum could advise on one of the extras that we are considering:
1. Adria Mach - The information is quite skimpy on marketing material about the advantage of having it for MiFi purposes, other than stating it enables you to have a WiFi Office. The other qualities of having control of the Lights, Fridge, Heating etc remotely doesn’t interest us, it is only the WiFi application that we are considering is worth the £700 cost


We require WiFi in the Motorhome for general internet access, but most important for using iPads for watching TV and sometimes downloading programmes for viewing later. I have an unlimited data sim, and my quandary is: If Adria Mach is good for this purpose, I would add it to the order. If not, I will purchase one of the many MiFi devices on the market out of my £700 saving.

I would be grateful if any member could advise from their experience
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Welcome! I can’t help with your Adria question, but there are many here who can.
 

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I just use my mobile phone to tether my laptop to the internet if there is no free wifi available. You can buy an awful lot of internet time for £700. I think you need to consider why you would want it if you are not interested in controlling bits of the van with it (or maybe there is an app that would do the same on your existing device anyway). If you already have an internet connected phone that you can tether why would you need anything else? Mind I am not the most tech savvy person here - I like things simple.
 

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Puddle duck is correct.. its only if you use more than your contracted "tether' allowance that a seperate device is handy. We use the one we sell BUT i'd say 95% of MH users in UK wouldn't need one.. Going over the water will make a difference, even the unlimited sims in UK have a Roaming tether limit of 20-30Gb depending on company, and 30Gb today is not much with todays tech eating it up.. Range is always something else to consider with just phone if your going to remote places. An external antenna is aa god send then.
 
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I think I will shy away from the Adria Mach gizmo and get an independent MiFi router & antenna installed to ensure some form of continuity of internet connection. I will take Puddleducks advice and tether my iPhone with my iPad during the interim period. I thank you all for your assistance, by offering your much appreciated advice to a novice Motorhomer.
 
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we used to use a mifi but now its just hotspot from phone . for tv we used a firestick. generally data is cheapest on your phone contract

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Welcome 😀 i am new here, com from south og Norway.
I use the cellphone to share internett...
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