Peplink Router: Van Life Internet Ultimate Solution

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find it is helpful to give an example of what the Peplink admin UI looks like when talking about how it works!  The simplicity, and control, of the Peplink router is another reason why we love it; but, there is a learning curve.  Below you can see our 5 signals (2 cell, 2 wifi, and 1 wired).  When we arrive at a boondocking spot, I spend a few minutes dragging the signals around to see what produces the highest quality output signal for us.  The drag and drop is really simple and intuitive, and there are additional setting options in the “Details” tab which we will dig into next.

More often than not, we end up with just the cell signals.  But sometimes, we do pull in our Starlink on an Ethernet connection (this would be the WAN connection).  And, very rarely, we will see a good public WiFi connection and bond that in as well.  If you are ‘mooch-docking’ this comes in handy!

If we have only one quality cell signal, we will drag the other cell signal into Priority 2 and turn off SpeedFusion because with one operating signal, SpeedFusion produces less bandwidth than if it is off.  This is because SpeedFusion works as a VPN tunnel fusing connections together- with just one signal you are doing an unnecessary step. 

Let’s talk about what it means to have two signals in priority 1…