The signal's out there. Your hotspot is in here.
That's not a coverage problem. That's an antenna-in-the-wrong-place problem — and fixing it is the only thing we've ever really sold.
My kids could stream a movie while I was on a video conference with 12 other people. I even let my RV neighbor join my WiFi. Great results — I recommend Insty Connect to everyone I know.— Derek A., full-time RVer
Your rig is what's blocking your signal.
Aluminium or fibreglass walls, foil-backed insulation, a metal roof. You are sitting inside a box that's very good at keeping cell signal out — and then asking a little device on the dinette to find some anyway. It's not that your device is bad. It's that you've put it in the worst seat in the house.
It's stuck behind the same walls you are
Whatever trickle of signal makes it through your wall is all it ever gets. In town you'd never notice. Down in a canyon, under trees, at the far end of the campground — that's the spinning wheel, the frozen face on the call, the kid asking why Netflix stopped.
Here's the tell: the same shops sell you a booster and a range extender to add afterwards.
It's already outside, where the signal is
We put the 5G modem inside the weatherproof antenna on your roof, so it meets the signal out in the open air and turns it into data right there — before a single wall gets in the way. That's the part we build ourselves instead of buying in.
One cable brings it inside to the router. Nothing to bolt on later.
Three things that box will never do for you
Change as your trips change
Start at a window — no drilling, no ladder, nothing permanent — because you're not sure yet. Move up to a roof antenna next season. Add a long-range one the year you start chasing the empty places. Same system every time, so you never buy the whole thing twice. A sealed device stays whatever it was the day it shipped.
Catch you when Starlink drops
You're mid-sentence and the trees take the dish out. Ours has already switched over to cellular before anyone on the call notices. Starlink, cellular and campground WiFi all live on the same router — one network name, nothing to unplug, nothing for you to do.
Stop charging you in January
The rig's under a cover in the driveway and the bill turns up anyway. Ours doesn't: $4 a day, only on the days you're actually out there, flipped on from the app when you pull in. Nobody else will sell you a single day. We checked.
The cheap one usually isn't.
The device is the number everybody compares. The data is the number you actually live with — and after twelve months it has quietly cost you three times what the device did. So here's the whole year, both ways, no small print.
A typical 5G travel hotspot
- The device$200 – $450
- Unlimited data, 12 months$1,320 – $1,680
- One-time activation feearound $30
- Booster or extender, if you need oneextra
Insty Connect LITE
- The system — antenna, modem, router, app$349
- Unlimited data, 12 months$948
- Activation feenone
- Booster or extendernot needed
The left column is a typical range for comparable 5G travel-hotspot gear and its unlimited plans, checked August 2026 — not a quote from any one company, so shop your own basket and check us. Our numbers are exact: LITE $349, Explorer $649, Single-Network Unlimited $79/mo, with an Insty data plan. Travel less than full-time and the right-hand number drops again — see below.
Why pay for July in January?
Everyone's cheapest option is still a whole month. Remember to pause it, or pay for four weeks you spent parked in the driveway. We sell days.
Tap it on in the app when you pull into the campsite, or let it switch itself on as a backup behind your Starlink. A day runs to midnight. It is an industry first, and it is still the only one.
That month costs $34.
The actual switch. It's in the app.
Out more than that? Pick a bigger plan — in the app, in a minute.
No contracts on any of them, and no activation fee. Move between plans yourself in the app's plan store — the system is eSIM-capable, so we can set up plans for you anytime, anywhere, with nothing arriving in the mail. If your rig sits still more than it rolls, the On-Demand page works out your own number.
When a hotspot is genuinely the better buy
We'd rather say it now than take an order that comes back. There are real cases where a pocket device is the right call and we're the wrong one.
→ You want to carry it around
A battery hotspot goes in a bag — the rig, the car, a hotel room, a trailhead. Ours mounts to one vehicle and runs off its power. If the thing you need is portable between places, buy the portable thing.
→ You go out twice a year
Two weekends a year and good campground WiFi? Honestly, your phone's hotspot may cover it. Our On-Demand plan is built for the in-between case — but if you're barely in it at all, don't buy a system for it.
Northeast Iowa, about 25 miles from the tower
Nick was parked in a spot with essentially nothing — the nearest tower roughly 25 miles away as the crow flies. The Binoculars antenna he'd built pulled it in. Standing in that same spot, he swapped in a $400 name-brand antenna off Amazon to compare. It wouldn't even connect.
Those antennas got built out of pure need, before Starlink existed, so travellers could connect where they never had. That's the part of this we didn't outsource — and it's the reason the modem lives out in the antenna instead of inside a box on a shelf.
Build my system →
One system. Two ways in.
Same router, same app, same data plans, same failover, and on both of them the modem lives in the antenna. Explorer steps up the hardware: a PoE cable that runs 150 ft, a modem that reaches the highest-frequency 5G bands, and it's the one that takes our long-range antennas.
Insty Connect LITE
- USB from the antenna, up to 30 ft — one cable, plug it in
- Qualcomm X55 5G modem, in the antenna
- Real-world speeds around 40–200 Mbps
- The perfect Starlink sidekick — automatic backup when the dish drops
- Upgrade to Explorer later; your plans and app come with you
Insty Connect Explorer
- PoE gigabit ethernet, up to 150 ft — put the antenna anywhere
- Qualcomm X62 5G modem — the highest-frequency 5G bands
- Real-world speeds around 50–500 Mbps
- Takes the long-range Rocket and 5G Binoculars antennas
- Can run into your own router if you'd rather
The things people actually ask
Neither, and people ask Nick this at every show. A booster can't make a signal better — it can only amplify what already got in, and amplifying it degrades it. A hotspot keeps the modem and antenna together in a box on your table.
We do the opposite: the modem sits inside the antenna, outside, and turns the signal into data right there in the open air. What comes down the cable is already internet, so there's nothing left to lose on the way in.
No. The Window antenna is included at no extra cost and mounts inside at a window — no drilling, no ladder. You give up a little of the outdoor-signal advantage for zero install. If you want the full benefit later, the Square antenna (+$30) clamps to your ladder, and the Drum (+$30) roof-mounts with a sticky or magnetic X-Mount. You can swap antennas whenever you like — that's the point of a modular system.
We do it, and the word to watch is automatic. Our Multi-Network Unlimited ($139/mo) runs T-Mobile and Verizon and switches between them on its own, in the moment, with nothing for you to do. U.S. All-In ($219/mo) adds the third.
Before you buy anything that advertises multiple networks, ask exactly how you switch — on plenty of devices it means messaging support and waiting for them to do it at their end. That's no help at a campsite on a Sunday afternoon.
Our $79 unlimited is a single network (T-Mobile 5G). That's the honest trade, and it's why it costs $79. Worth saying too: a good antenna outside beats a second carrier indoors more often than people expect, because the real problem is usually reaching the tower at all.
The honest version: $10 a month holds your spot whether you travel or not — zero days in January still costs $10. A day runs to midnight, and taxes put it around $4.59 on the bill. And if you're out more than about half of every month, Unlimited at $79 is simply the better deal — the app will happily switch you. That's the whole catch. There's a full page with a cost calculator if you want to run your own numbers.
It's built to. Starlink plugs into our router and stays your primary; the cellular sits underneath and takes over automatically when the dish drops — trees, weather, obstructions. Put On-Demand under it and a paid day only starts when the backup actually kicks in. There's a whole page on that setup.
Real-world, Explorer runs about 50–500 Mbps and LITE about 40–200 Mbps — ranges, not promises, because signal, tower load and your plan all move the number. Both are far more than enough for video calls and streaming.
Us. Usually one of the family. We're a small U.S. company that builds this in our own shop, so the person reading your message is the person who made the thing. Send us a message and see how fast someone real replies.
Stay online in the places you used to lose.
Put the antenna where the signal is, and pay for data the days you actually use it.
Takes about two minutes. No contract, and you can change the plan later.
