Has anyone heard of Autonet

[rip]

  I had to buy a new receiver for my Motosat and I met Gary Swaim the owner of Custom Coach Connection. Gary's company keeps up with the latest technology and has a Autonet installed in his coach.The unit is a mobile internet router and also boosts the signal for cell phones. I fulltime and would love to have this if it works.The unit sells for $400.00 minus $200.00 if you sign up for two years.I have a wi-fi card now which takes a lot of abuse,so it would be great not having  that sticking out the side of the computer.The monthly service is also cheaper then I am paying now to Verizon. Anyone heard of this product yet?
  Don

[belfert]

For starters, you still need a WI-FI network connection in your PC.  Now, if you are talking about an aircard then no you won't need that anymore.

This thing is just an expensive router for 3G.  You can buy routers in which you can place your ccurrent Verizon aircard and do the same thing for a lot less.  I don't see how the price is less than Verizon unless you go with the 1GB plan.  Verizon charges the same $59 a month for 5GB, but Autonet may have less taxes and fees.

[rip]

I am not tech savvy but what I found if I'm correct routhers do not boost the signal which I was told what Autonet would do.It sounds like I need a small router to plug in my air card then an antenna and amp to strengthen my signal.I was looking at Wilson for that,but pricey.Any suggestions or products that will work would be a great help.Thanks.
   Don

[cody]

We use a magnetic roof mount antenna from wilson that cost us about 50 bucks for our aircard, it boosts the signal or so it claims and seems to work well, with wilson you have to also buy the adapter to plug into the air card to make the connection to the antenna, be sure the aircard has a port to plug the antenna in, not all aircards have that and when i was looking at verizen they only had 2 that the manager could find that came with an external antenna port.

[buswarrior]

The inside of a coach is terrible for receiving signals.

Prove it to yourself by moving the device outside when getting poor signal strength and see the difference.

One of these like cody's makes a difference without disrupting what you already do.

Funny, no matter what it has been in our lives, radio, TV, cell phones and now data through the air, it still comes down to crappy reception and tricks to improve that!

Perhaps there is comfort in that familiarity?

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[belfert]

I am not tech savvy but what I found if I'm correct routhers do not boost the signal which I was told what Autonet would do.It sounds like I need a small router to plug in my air card then an antenna and amp to strengthen my signal.I was looking at Wilson for that,but pricey.Any suggestions or products that will work would be a great help.Thanks.

I didn't see anything on Autonet's website where they claim to boost the signal.  Now, the router might have a better antenna than a typical air card simply because there is more space in the router.