Would a peplink mini work for my situation?

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Looking to get internet for my familys cabin, there’s At&T and T-Mobile coverage based on their maps. I have Verizon for cell service and it is not good/doesnt work during peak times when a lot of people are in the area (July 4th, hunting season etc)

I have heard that there is a tower for at&t so that would make it better than Verizon by other people in the area.

Ideally this would be fast enough to work from there and stream movies/tv.

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The mini should be sufficient for your movies and tv viewing, but I expect your challenge will be the cellular connection (regardless of router choice).

To improve on the latter there are a number of avenues you could pursue, such as:

  • Get a premium subscription with the cellular service, one that would provide priority during times of cellular congestion. Verizon (and likely others) have tiers of service.
  • Get a carrier that is in limited use, but which happens to work well at that particular location. E.g., at one of our locations, in a national park, Verizon has the better area coverage, but T-mobile is generally faster since it is less used by tourists. In your case it sounds like AT&T might be such a one.
  • Pick a Peplink model with the better cellular technology (e.g. 5G > CAT-7 > CAT-6 > CAT-4). The better the modem the more options you and the tower have in optimizing the connection
  • Consider adding an external antenna, if the barrier to getting a good connection is a low-quality signal.

And, dare I say, consider a starlink+peplink combo? (I have limited experience with that, but in our one deployment of such it worked really well. Starlink as primary and cellular as fail-over in our case.)

Just the usual $0.02

Cheers,

Z

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