Feeding cable into caravan for 5G antenna while parked up only

[Buckman]

True, but have you never ignored anyone?

Oh yes!

 

[JTQ]

Has anybody knowledge of actually what cable or cabling is involved? Would make giving targeted advice way more specific.

Edit: a quick look indicates some are WiFi some Ethernet, probably using PoE.
Neither seem to me to be challenges on a temporary potable basis, more a challenge if a permanent fixed solution is envisaged.

 

[borderbilly]

When I used a satellite dish it came with a adaptor cable, very thin cable that routed through Window.

 

[otherclive]

I used Rockboard “ flat cable” for tv and sat. Different cables of course. If OP knows the cable spec for his needs then a quick search will give options. Just include “flat” in the search.

 

[Sam Vimes]

I'm pleased that we managed to get this thread back on track to help the OP.

 

[Buckman]

Phone on roof in plastic bag and use wifi. No need for any cabling. Simples.

 

[JTQ]

Phone on roof in plastic bag and use wifi. No need for any cabling. Simples.

Much my solution, but then its "tethering" the mobile not using a dedicated MiFi unit.
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Re cabling, it's going to depend on the device the OP is using, which so far I have not picked up on. By inference, the mention of a cable implies its not a device with onboard powering and or wifi data transmission.

 

[Dustydog]

We use one of our caravans for work and leisure cannot see why it a problem

BB
Your post reads like you have more than one caravan “ We use one of our caravans”?
That lead to people thinking you had two 😎

 

[tim2000s]

So for reference, it's a ZTE U50 MiFi 5G device that has additional ports for external antennae to improve reception of the mobile signal in weaker signal areas.

Rather than clutter the roof of the caravan with an AVTex aerial and router, which seems like a far more expensive way of achieving the same thing, this provides an easy solution within which we can switch SIM cards easily dependent on the local dominant mobile provider.

Whilst I understand that for some, any time away from home is an opportunity to completely disconnect, for others we use it as an opportunity to work from somewhere different and take the option outside of work time to investigate and discover a new area, usually around a long weekend!

Horses for courses, as someone else might have said...

 

[Buckman]

So for reference, it's a ZTE U50 MiFi 5G device that has additional ports for external antennae to improve reception of the mobile signal in weaker signal areas.

Rather than clutter the roof of the caravan with an AVTex aerial and router, which seems like a far more expensive way of achieving the same thing, this provides an easy solution within which we can switch SIM cards easily dependent on the local dominant mobile provider.

Whilst I understand that for some, any time away from home is an opportunity to completely disconnect, for others we use it as an opportunity to work from somewhere different and take the option outside of work time to investigate and discover a new area, usually around a long weekend!

Horses for courses, as someone else might have said...

If signal is poor, then I think there is nothing much that can be done, but open to correction?

 

[JTQ]

Any details on these ports, I am not finding any info on this?

I find there can be quite a difference in the signal pulled in between my phone in the van, an aluminium clad one, or outside, much depends if a window is in line to break the van's Faraday cage.

 

[Buckman]

Any details on these ports, I am not finding any info on this?

I find there can be quite a difference in the signal pulled in between my phone in the van, an aluminium clad one, or outside, much depends if a window is in line to break the van's Faraday cage.

We open one of the skylights and place the phone on the roof when we are in an area with poor reception. However if you are in a dip, nothing much you can do to stream to the phone.

At East Fleet farm in Weymouth we had that issue and not much we could do about it. Strangely when down in Brean in Somerset where the area is flat, the signal can be poor on many campsites? Apparently people in the area haven been complaining about this abnormality for some time?

 

[borderbilly]

Don't know if relevant but I could not get signal for my TV, my brother had a cheap magnetic small aerial and stuck it on roof of car, hey presto 100% crystal clear picture. About £7 from the bay of plenty.

 

[Buckman]

Don't know if relevant but I could not get signal for my TV, my brother had a cheap magnetic small aerial and stuck it on roof of car, hey presto 100% crystal clear picture. About £7 from the bay of plenty.

Sometimes a wire coat hanger will work just as well.

 

[tim2000s]

Any details on these ports, I am not finding any info on this?

I find there can be quite a difference in the signal pulled in between my phone in the van, an aluminium clad one, or outside, much depends if a window is in line to break the van's Faraday cage.

That's really part of it. We're a Bailey, so the AluTech potentially presents reception problems.

 

[Buckman]

That's really part of it. We're a Bailey, so the AluTech potentially presents reception problems.

With all brands you will have the same issue.

 

[JTQ]

With all brands you will have the same issue.

Not so where the walls are composites etc, its metals, sheet, foils and certain meshes where the "Faraday Cage" issue lays. later Alu-Tec were I thought a grp skinning, foam sandwich.