Winegard Air 360+5G and Winegard Gateway 5g

[StressLess Camping]

We just got a 2025 Rockwood Mini Lite with the Winegard Air 360 5G antennae on the roof. In theory this intrigues the heck out of me but the $999 price for the internal bits seems excessive.

We do have a Starlink dish but if I can get something that's hard-wired into my trailer that also doesn't use 120vac and performs close to what our Starlink can do, I'm all for it.

But not for a grand. Sheesh - I know the connectors are gold plated but is the rest of the box?

 

[bclemens]

Call Demartini RV. They source their own 5G router. 9 antennas. I think you can wire it 12V (not sure it comes that way from the start, but I do think they have an adaptor). Just sits on a shelf. Far less money.

My in-laws now have one in their apartment. They had DSL, best they got was 20-30Mbps. Put this in the same spot, 400-500 Mbps.

 

[DW_DX3]

We just got a 2025 Rockwood Mini Lite with the Winegard Air 360 5G antennae on the roof. In theory this intrigues the heck out of me but the $999 price for the internal bits seems excessive.

We do have a Starlink dish but if I can get something that's hard-wired into my trailer that also doesn't use 120vac and performs close to what our Starlink can do, I'm all for it.

But not for a grand. Sheesh - I know the connectors are gold plated but is the rest of the box?

The WiFi portion of the Wingard router is crap. Plain and simple and not worth $100 much less the price they charge. But ..the router portion of the hardware supports an Ethernet connection from a quality WiFi access point. So we mounted a white TPLink router next to it on the ceiling and connected to the Wiegard via flat Ethernet and connect to that WiFi. We have our Starlink set up with the same access point names so when we want to use that, we simply power off the winegard and TPLink via the power switch to have everything connect on the Starlink.

 

[Tentmaker]

It’s a shame that so many campers have the Winegard Air360+5G on the roof … it’s hard to find a satisfied user … $999 for a router that seems inferior to the competition … data plans that get low priority throttled back service … it seems like a large roof hole for no purpose

 

[bclemens]

You can still do a 4G router instead of the 5G for far less.

 

[robnotto]

We're working on a "rough in box" right now. Just a box with conduit into a cabinet. Then water tight connections cable connections on the side. Wire what you want.

When do you anticipated units like this will start being produced? Asking because I was the person that ordered my Isata 3 (BarringtonRV) without the satellite/winegard and asked for a conduit or Cat 6E cable to the roof.

 

[bclemens]

When do you anticipated units like this will start being produced? Asking because I was the person that ordered my Isata 3 (BarringtonRV) without the satellite/winegard and asked for a conduit or Cat 6E cable to the roof.

We have not been able to find a box that does what we want, that you can properly add to later.

I vaguely recall your special order request, but not sure what we offered back as a solution. I think the plan was to run Cat 6 from an outside bay to the A/V cabinet.

 

[Driveby]

We have not been able to find a box that does what we want, that you can properly add to later.

I vaguely recall your special order request, but not sure what we offered back as a solution. I think the plan was to run Cat 6 from an outside bay to the A/V cabinet.

I've seen this one. No idea if they can scale to your ordering needs nor if they can hit a price point you need, just an idea for you.

https://mobilemusthave.com/collections/icotek-cable-management

 

[timdeck]

Wondering if anyone is using the Winegard Air 360+5G and Gateway 5g yet.? If so, can you provide some of your observations. Is there a slightly less expensive (such as Netgear) modem than could be used with the Winegard roof antenna? Winegards Gateway 5g looks much like the Netgear Nightwawk.

If you don't really want Starlink or want another cell based solution, I would recommend a Peplink router, which can connect to the 360+ 5G antenna wires down from the roof.

Check out Judge64's upgrade post #56 in this forum:

https://www.forestriverforums.com/f...modification-thread-279404-3.html#post2975490

 

[Judge64]

The Winegard 4G and 5G Gateway's are not very good and they are not worth the price. The old Winegard ConnecT 2 I had in my old Super C worked better than the Gateway did in my '24 I3 FE.

I thought about doing Winegards 4G to 5G Gateway trade-in but there was no way I would spend that kind of money after seeing how badly the 4G Gateway performed compared to the 4G Winegard ConnecT 2.

As timdeck said...... I replaced the Winegard Gateway with the MobileMustHave Base Camp enclosure and the Peplink BR1 Pro 5G. The system works great!

It uses the Winegard Air 360+5G antennas for 4G/ 5G Cellular and I used the roof WiFi antenna for outside coverage and one Peplink antenna for inside coverage.

T-Mobile has an unpublicized plan that offers 30GB for $10/mo with direct autopay. The BR1 Pro 5G will take two physical SIMs and two BYOD SIM's. I purchased two physical SIMs and one BYOD SIM and get 90GB for $30/mo with the Peplink Router.


I also use Starlink as my backup source of connectivity when there is no cell coverage and it works great. In Alaska last year we had connectivity where everyone else did not. About 8 people in our Caravan ended up ordering Starlink in the middle of the trip when they saw we could make calls and be online.

What's great about Starlink is you can pause the Service when not in use. And now that they released the Mini hardware you can use the cheaper 50GB/mo for $50 Plan with the Gen3 hardware if don't need the Unlimited Plan for $160/mo.


Right now I think I have the best.... and cheapest option.... for having connectivity anywhere we travel.

 

[gremlin]

If you just want to use it to connect to other wifi hotspots, like at a campground (or in our case a racetrack) the Osprey unit just plugs into the winegard roof dome and works much much better than the Winegard unit works. I do wish there was an extra cat 6e cable run from that location down to the bays so you could easily stick a starlink or something else on it without the extra hop. I'm still hoping I'll figure out a way to get one installed, but am nto that hopeful

 

[Tentmaker]

Posts Appreciated … discovered the Basecamp Router Enclosure … Definitely opens up a few new options for me to consider next spring

https://mobilemusthave.com/pages/basecamp-router-enclosure-for-winegard-360-plus

 

[vlamgat]

Starlink comes with 50 or 75 feet of cable and you can buy an accessory cable of 150 feet. That would seem to be enough, in most situations, to carry the antenna out to a clear view of the sky. I also have a flagpole mount that gets the antenna above the height of the coach, which has helped on several occasions.

You will need a very large camp site to move 150 feet from the router without running the very real, and often commented risk, that it will get hit by another vehicle.

 

[TrailWayz]

You will need a very large camp site to move 150 feet from the router without running the very real, and often commented risk, that it will get hit by another vehicle.

^^^^ THIS ^^^^

I sold my last SL to a guy who had his dish run over at a campsite in Oklahoma.