Those EOIT cards are great. Work well in automotive Android radios. They can use all 3 major networks, so you'll always have a signal. Have one in my car.
I worked with AT&T for a while and it was always amazing to see exchange students and travelers with their fancy dual sim slots. Businesses also seemed to always know more about SIM cards than I ever was told working on the ground level. Edit: Interesting to see OpenWRT coming baked-in. In seeking travel routers for overseas-use it was always "sketchy" like you mentioned. I appreciate you testing this out, keep us posted on this little guy.
Day 417 in sand land diary entry. I made it to sand land over one year ago. Now we have shelter from a mono rail we found and brought. Last year they went to what was called Canada to get sat comms antenna. That was a success. Our underground shelter is coming along beautifully. We even put a little train tracks in it. Just recently we found a device that still uses working towers for internet. It’s sad because you know when the event happened. All the last TH-cam’s were on the same date. At least we get relive what our lives were before the event. I think it’s April 2024 now. Not sure of what day though. I lost my date book. So everything is a guess until we get the next working satellite for time.
I use IoT for prepaid data bundle for my smarthphone, its from Always Connected (1Gb for 9 euro, up to 25Gb for 80 euro, they expire a year after activating, and top it up when needed)
I gotta be honest I didn't see many 5G Wi-Fi 6 capable portable routers. Might look into it some day when my D-link DWR 2101 gives up 😀. I will make a note of this
@@RadOo - All the GL-iNet units that I’m aware of take a data dongle, so you could do 5G on most of them. Not all the routers do wifi 6, but they do some that do it. If you have a specific need, I’ve found them to be quite responsive. I asked them a question about antennas and the top guy at the company wrote back with the answer.
The tower your mobile phone connects to for data (3G/4G, etc.) and the tower the router connects to for data are the same tower. The only reason the router would get a better connection is because it may have a better antenna? The router isn’t connecting to some special tower. So if your phone has one bar so will the router.
This. Also, he said his phone is using a Verizon plan and the EIOT SIM has access to AT&T and T-Mobile. I suspect these networks simply have better coverage in the area he's testing.
They may be the same towers but some devices do not support the same frequencies. Most devices are built in Asia and don't fully support our wonky US bands. Also, ATT, Verizon and T-Mobile run on different bands EIOT actually has a card that supports all three carriers, but you need a device that covers all the bands for all 3 carriers. For data devices that is a tall order.
The tower end may be the same, but the radio on your end can be vastly different. the one in the phone will be optimised for minimal size and power consumption. the one in the router will be optimised for performance. bigger antenna, bigger and better filters, perhaps multiple transceivers for separate bands, more power available for more amplifier stages. I haven't done any A-B testing in the 4g era, but I 'borrowed' an industrial 3g modem from work and took it to our cabin. you could just make a phone call if you stood in the right spot and held your tounge at just the right angle, dropouts were common. the modem was 3 times the size of my phone and ran from an external 12v supply. it also cost about a grand. and even in a very fringe area came pretty damn close to theoretical maximum throughput, using the same sim card from the same spot on the porch. turns out if you build a modem to just be a really good RF modem, It performs orders of magnitude better than the domestic thinnest lightest cheapest swiss army knife that is a smartphone. as anyone who has played around with radio gear will know, there is a level of arcane art to designing the hardware. there is a reason Motorola can charge thousands for a walkie talkie where as you can get one from the sports store for fifty bucks. same band, same power, but one will soundly thrash the other in range and clarity.
@@yacoboy Yeah , absolutely they could be different cell towers… I just didn’t want people thinking that buying a mobile 4G (or 5G) broadband router would magically improve their data speeds or their signal.
Sandstone like this stays stable as long as you arch the ceiling a little and maintain the humidity, there are some 100+ year old tunnels in the area that are still stable. We have three entrances that provide some natural cross ventilation, and a powered fan in one area. I have a video somewhere on air quality measurements, we haven't seen any concerning issues!
hah, that reminds me about my old business laptop. It has a (I guess deprecated) slot for a cellular wifi chip that I guess business people used to use while traveling. This cellular router and sim seems like a perfect modern accessory for it. Really like seeing OpenWRT being used, free software is amazing!
*_"Nobody really uses voice phone calls anymore..."_* FWIW: That is why I prefer texting. NOT because I love texting. It is just the older I get, the more I hate talking. Really.
I installed an Android based "radio" (it's really an Android tablet with a radio tacked on) in my car. It has a cellular radio in it, but it's not optimized for US cell frequencies. It took me several tries, but I found a Franklin T9 RT717 (supports extended bands) for a reasonable price that seems to work well with the EIOTCLUB SIM card, even when in rural lake country in North-Central Minnesota. The only quirk is that the IP address I am given makes Google send me to Chinese ads, because the IP address is homed out of Hong Kong.
Absolutely useless, for me. However, I think your presentation of the product/service, is good. Fair and unbiased appraisal, of the cellular network device. Security, not provided by free WiFi, is perhaps, the most valuable feature, with the range-extension, simply a bonus.
Count me in. It's always been a pet peeve of mine. My favorite is the abbreviation "kmAh" or kilomilliamp hour. I cringe when I see statements like "Hey, check out this 20 kmAh battery bank that's on sale" on deal fourms, etc.
@2:00 "No one uses voice calls anymore" If you do it's going to be VoiP or servers like discord anyway. I would use this device as a mobile wifi hotspot for an older model vehicle that doesn't have a built in hotspot. With a small plan like this it would be good to keep basic files in sync with a NAS drive in the vehicle, and with a bigger plan you could keep the whole server backed up and have a 6 point security system accessible from anywhere on your vehicle. Talk about a backup cam/dashcam!
Does the router work with any sim card or is there a firmware on it that locks it to eiot? Maybe it's possible to request a second sim card of your current plan and save on some fees that way
I think it should be open to any SIM/carrier. Haven't tested these models but freely available modems like what I have (D-Link DWR 2101) has worked with all local carriers I have available.
@@BurkenProductions It's a standing height underground tunnel on TH-cam so yeah, I know a bar is a bit different to a bunker and an in-progress garage but c'mon it's still impressive.
We are watching big tech slowly die and be torn apart, open source software is free and in many cases far better than what would come packaged with a standard commercial router. If software costs money in the future, people won't use it, that simple.
which probably works fine in the city to update your instagram feed, but not so much out in the sticks. your not paying for data throughput, your paying for redundancy. vastly more options on what carrier and frequencies are available. you have much better odds of being able to see some kind of connection wherever you are. also, the use case for such things does not need a whole pile of data. your not sending multi megabyte photos or streaming in HD, your more likley to be sending back a few packets here and there with a bit of status information. the security camera is probably the highest data use, and even then its only going to be for short bursts when the camera lets you know 'hey, I see something"
@@arjovenzia So does 3 different SIMs I can get for the same price as 1 EIOTCLUB. I can't speak for US since I am in Czech Republic, but in general, it's just easier to have 3 SIMs from all carriers for the same price and not to worry about Chinese IP.
working in creating a network of solar is this road blocked sensors to document how long intersections are blocked by ever increasing intercity rail traffic.
I used an EIOT sim for a bit based on your recommendations. It worked great until a certain scummy ISP disconnected me because they couldn't control my camera. Needless to say, I disconnected them in return.
An internet service provider having access to a privately owned camera? Why and how? Not doubting you but that's really weird. Edited because you answered the question of how you knew already.
@@DirtyPlumbus ok, man, me being an IT professional, although not specifically a cyber security one, but still, I ask you for any proves or specific details of your story (which I doubt I'll get from you to be honest), or I'll call a massive BS on this one.
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Those EOIT cards are great. Work well in automotive Android radios. They can use all 3 major networks, so you'll always have a signal. Have one in my car.
using those rail cars as housing/storage is so cool
I worked with AT&T for a while and it was always amazing to see exchange students and travelers with their fancy dual sim slots. Businesses also seemed to always know more about SIM cards than I ever was told working on the ground level. Edit: Interesting to see OpenWRT coming baked-in. In seeking travel routers for overseas-use it was always "sketchy" like you mentioned. I appreciate you testing this out, keep us posted on this little guy.
Great. Seems very useful. Hopefully it keeps working well.
Day 417 in sand land diary entry. I made it to sand land over one year ago. Now we have shelter from a mono rail we found and brought. Last year they went to what was called Canada to get sat comms antenna. That was a success. Our underground shelter is coming along beautifully. We even put a little train tracks in it. Just recently we found a device that still uses working towers for internet. It’s sad because you know when the event happened. All the last TH-cam’s were on the same date. At least we get relive what our lives were before the event. I think it’s April 2024 now. Not sure of what day though. I lost my date book. So everything is a guess until we get the next working satellite for time.
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I use IoT for prepaid data bundle for my smarthphone, its from Always Connected (1Gb for 9 euro, up to 25Gb for 80 euro, they expire a year after activating, and top it up when needed)
A very nice device, I've been looking for something like this for a while, thank you for showing it.
GL-iNet do some great little routers for travel and home. I have loads of different models.
I gotta be honest I didn't see many 5G Wi-Fi 6 capable portable routers. Might look into it some day when my D-link DWR 2101 gives up 😀. I will make a note of this
@@RadOo - All the GL-iNet units that I’m aware of take a data dongle, so you could do 5G on most of them. Not all the routers do wifi 6, but they do some that do it. If you have a specific need, I’ve found them to be quite responsive. I asked them a question about antennas and the top guy at the company wrote back with the answer.
The tower your mobile phone connects to for data (3G/4G, etc.) and the tower the router connects to for data are the same tower.
The only reason the router would get a better connection is because it may have a better antenna?
The router isn’t connecting to some special tower.
So if your phone has one bar so will the router.
This.
Also, he said his phone is using a Verizon plan and the EIOT SIM has access to AT&T and T-Mobile. I suspect these networks simply have better coverage in the area he's testing.
They may be the same towers but some devices do not support the same frequencies. Most devices are built in Asia and don't fully support our wonky US bands. Also, ATT, Verizon and T-Mobile run on different bands EIOT actually has a card that supports all three carriers, but you need a device that covers all the bands for all 3 carriers. For data devices that is a tall order.
3g is gone
The tower end may be the same, but the radio on your end can be vastly different. the one in the phone will be optimised for minimal size and power consumption. the one in the router will be optimised for performance. bigger antenna, bigger and better filters, perhaps multiple transceivers for separate bands, more power available for more amplifier stages. I haven't done any A-B testing in the 4g era, but I 'borrowed' an industrial 3g modem from work and took it to our cabin. you could just make a phone call if you stood in the right spot and held your tounge at just the right angle, dropouts were common. the modem was 3 times the size of my phone and ran from an external 12v supply. it also cost about a grand. and even in a very fringe area came pretty damn close to theoretical maximum throughput, using the same sim card from the same spot on the porch. turns out if you build a modem to just be a really good RF modem, It performs orders of magnitude better than the domestic thinnest lightest cheapest swiss army knife that is a smartphone.
as anyone who has played around with radio gear will know, there is a level of arcane art to designing the hardware. there is a reason Motorola can charge thousands for a walkie talkie where as you can get one from the sports store for fifty bucks. same band, same power, but one will soundly thrash the other in range and clarity.
@@yacoboy Yeah , absolutely they could be different cell towers… I just didn’t want people thinking that buying a mobile 4G (or 5G) broadband router would magically improve their data speeds or their signal.
Are those tunnels really safe? Are they structurally stable and do they have good enough air supply?
it's not that complicated. ventilation is as easy as a fan and a hose. it's dug into sandstone. it has arches. it's fine.
Sandstone like this stays stable as long as you arch the ceiling a little and maintain the humidity, there are some 100+ year old tunnels in the area that are still stable. We have three entrances that provide some natural cross ventilation, and a powered fan in one area. I have a video somewhere on air quality measurements, we haven't seen any concerning issues!
I'm impressed that a phone could get youtube underground at all.
I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook!
hah, that reminds me about my old business laptop. It has a (I guess deprecated) slot for a cellular wifi chip that I guess business people used to use while traveling. This cellular router and sim seems like a perfect modern accessory for it. Really like seeing OpenWRT being used, free software is amazing!
Love sand land videos
*_"Nobody really uses voice phone calls anymore..."_*
FWIW: That is why I prefer texting. NOT because I love texting. It is just the older I get, the more I hate talking. Really.
does your phone have a dual sim tray because you could put the sim directly into your phone
Bro has better internet connection in a hole in the ground than I do to my house.
I installed an Android based "radio" (it's really an Android tablet with a radio tacked on) in my car. It has a cellular radio in it, but it's not optimized for US cell frequencies. It took me several tries, but I found a Franklin T9 RT717 (supports extended bands) for a reasonable price that seems to work well with the EIOTCLUB SIM card, even when in rural lake country in North-Central Minnesota. The only quirk is that the IP address I am given makes Google send me to Chinese ads, because the IP address is homed out of Hong Kong.
that is odd from a security standpoint
run a tower mapping app and send that in ... odd that cell networks would route that traffic
@@unmanaged Buy an EIOT CLUB trial SIM and learn.
@@unmanaged with EIOTCLUB you're basically Roaming all the time, so that's why it's been identified under Hong Kong.
Proximus? That’s a cell phone operator/ISP here in Belgium.
“Geodesic space dome that we got from Canada”…. As one does
Where else do you get your geodesic space domes?
@@ek8710 touché
Didnt that truck tracker you made a video on have a sim-card slot?
Might be fun to see what happens when you put one of those in there, just for lols.
Absolutely useless, for me. However, I think your presentation of the product/service, is good. Fair and unbiased appraisal, of the cellular network device.
Security, not provided by free WiFi, is perhaps, the most valuable feature, with the range-extension, simply a bonus.
Please join my campaign against the milliamp-hour. 5,000 milliamp-hours is just 5 amp-hours. Thank you!
leave mAh alone bro
you, good sir, are a scholar and a gentleman 🎩👓🥂🚬🤝🧐
Count me in. It's always been a pet peeve of mine. My favorite is the abbreviation "kmAh" or kilomilliamp hour. I cringe when I see statements like "Hey, check out this 20 kmAh battery bank that's on sale" on deal fourms, etc.
Ok but what bout when your dealing with little battery packs like 450 mah? Saying .45 ah isn't much better than 5000mah
@@BenWilsonJewelry try to answer your own question, man
8:24 What sort of music do you like to stream down there?...... Rock.... Music ? Ba dum tish 😆🤣
what carrier does that work with?
Heh... I haven't visited Slashdot in a long time.
OOOOOOOH Interesting!
@2:00 "No one uses voice calls anymore" If you do it's going to be VoiP or servers like discord anyway. I would use this device as a mobile wifi hotspot for an older model vehicle that doesn't have a built in hotspot. With a small plan like this it would be good to keep basic files in sync with a NAS drive in the vehicle, and with a bigger plan you could keep the whole server backed up and have a 6 point security system accessible from anywhere on your vehicle. Talk about a backup cam/dashcam!
You definitely need four more trampolines
Did you lived in stoneage?
Does the router work with any sim card or is there a firmware on it that locks it to eiot? Maybe it's possible to request a second sim card of your current plan and save on some fees that way
I think it should be open to any SIM/carrier. Haven't tested these models but freely available modems like what I have (D-Link DWR 2101) has worked with all local carriers I have available.
What are you using to tunnel/cut the bedrock?
Mostly electric demolition hammers (like a small jackhammer). I've also used an angle grinder but it's kind of sketchy!
Oh wow, a TH-cam tunnel to rival Colin Furze.
Not really this is totally different and has those rediculous side burns that need to go.
@@BurkenProductions It's a standing height underground tunnel on TH-cam so yeah, I know a bar is a bit different to a bunker and an in-progress garage but c'mon it's still impressive.
We are watching big tech slowly die and be torn apart, open source software is free and in many cases far better than what would come packaged with a standard commercial router.
If software costs money in the future, people won't use it, that simple.
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Wow those cards plans were EXPENSIVE.... $45 for a 5 GB plan per month?! Man here you get unlimited data and voice for $40-$45 a month.
which probably works fine in the city to update your instagram feed, but not so much out in the sticks. your not paying for data throughput, your paying for redundancy. vastly more options on what carrier and frequencies are available. you have much better odds of being able to see some kind of connection wherever you are. also, the use case for such things does not need a whole pile of data. your not sending multi megabyte photos or streaming in HD, your more likley to be sending back a few packets here and there with a bit of status information. the security camera is probably the highest data use, and even then its only going to be for short bursts when the camera lets you know 'hey, I see something"
@@arjovenzia So does 3 different SIMs I can get for the same price as 1 EIOTCLUB. I can't speak for US since I am in Czech Republic, but in general, it's just easier to have 3 SIMs from all carriers for the same price and not to worry about Chinese IP.
Did you do a video on the living situation?
working in creating a network of solar is this road blocked sensors to document how long intersections are blocked by ever increasing intercity rail traffic.
No no no no no no no no no no no use visible for 25.00 a month ! It's so much better
I used an EIOT sim for a bit based on your recommendations. It worked great until a certain scummy ISP disconnected me because they couldn't control my camera. Needless to say, I disconnected them in return.
how you figured out that was the reason they disconnected you?
@@Pootie_Tang they weren't afraid to say it.
An internet service provider having access to a privately owned camera? Why and how? Not doubting you but that's really weird.
Edited because you answered the question of how you knew already.
@@rubenskiii it's actually not weird. If you're connected to the internet, privacy is a farce. Even your car mines and sells your data.
@@DirtyPlumbus ok, man, me being an IT professional, although not specifically a cyber security one, but still, I ask you for any proves or specific details of your story (which I doubt I'll get from you to be honest), or I'll call a massive BS on this one.
1 Gb of data is pratically useless today, certainly not suitable for HD CCTV or remote weather imagery stations.
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