Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon called it's Monday the 20th of January.

I spend an awful lot of my time on the road trying to keep connected and I'm afraid I have more

fails than I really should given that for purposes of filing copy, recording and sending in podcasts,

all sorts of things, I need to be connected. So I thought I would take some advice from an

expert. This is Matt Sims. You will probably know the Motor Home Matt podcast. It is the very

same Matt. You're looking at very much

the motorhome market, but you're also the person who understands how best to keep connected,

which of course, for an awful lot of people who have got motorhomes, is a really crucial thing.

Yes, absolutely. It feels like a basic human right, doesn't it? And where I think a lot of people

go wrong, and I suspect where you might be going wrong,

is you're trying to connect to the internet with your laptop via your phone.

Yes, of course.

And it's a common misconception that that's a best practice.

And remarkably, it's not.

And simply because your phone is a very, very busy little box.

So it's constantly update, text messages, emails and so on,

updating all the apps and notifications. I'm sure your phone is a very busy place like mine.

And that takes up lots of bandwidth. And the other restriction of a phone, a smartphone,

is the size of the a aerials within. So they are a coil inside the phone and their ability to pick up a cellular distance often on campsites

we're in a remote location is really hard so that's where you get no signal so having a dedicated

device that's designed to pick up that signal they usually have big aerials on or big coiled aeros

inside and then the ability to send a Wi-Fi signal

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