AT&T’s ZTE Mobley Connect Car unlimited data plan? Help

[TenOCPlus]

I am grandfathered into AT&T’s ZTE Mobley Connect Car unlimited data plan. It has worked very well for the last 5 or 6 years. I am extremely happy with it. And want to be very careful not to lose my grandfather status. However, now that 2 grandchildren will be traveling with us there is more need for more devices to be on the Mobley hotspot Wi-Fi. Mobley has a limit of 5 devices that can be connected.

If I remember correctly from a number of years ago several people had taken the Sim card out of the AT&T Mobley and put it in a Netgear hotspot router or a different hotspot. Is there anyone out there still using the Mobley in a different hotspot router that can connect more than 5 devices at a time? If so what brand/model hotspot do you recommend?

 

[Soundsailor]

I am grandfathered into AT&T’s ZTE Mobley Connect Car unlimited data plan. It has worked very well for the last 5 or 6 years. I am extremely happy with it. And want to be very careful not to lose my grandfather status. However, now that 2 grandchildren will be traveling with us there is more need for more devices to be on the Mobley hotspot Wi-Fi. Mobley has a limit of 5 devices that can be connected.

If I remember correctly from a number of years ago several people had taken the Sim card out of the AT&T Mobley and put it in a Netgear hotspot router or a different hotspot. Is there anyone out there still using the Mobley in a different hotspot router that can connect more than 5 devices at a time? If so what brand/model hotspot do you recommend?

One option that might work would be to add a travel router such as the GL.iNet Opal (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09N72FMH5). It should only count as one device and you could connect as many as you like to it.

 

[Walaby]

Like Soundsailor, I added a router to mine. Don't recall of top of my head which one, but it's been working fine for years. Mobley sees it as one connection, and then I can have as many as I want with the router.

Mike

 

[FT4NOW]

We are also grandfathered on the same plan, but i use it a little differently. I bought a female OBD2 port and wired it to an AC-DC adapter and can plug it in any standard outlet. We use it as a backup since we mainly use Starlink. The only downside is it times out after awhile because it thinks the vehicle is off (i think it does this because the voltage is constant) there was a setting to prevent this, but one of the software updates removed the feature.

I looked into moving the SIM card to a router, but we went with Starlink instead. Ive read that people that have used a router have reported better speeds compared to the original device. I was considering thr Netgear Nighthawk, it seemed to have good reviews from others that did the swap.

 

[Soundsailor]

I was considering the Netgear Nighthawk, it seemed to have good reviews from others who did the swap.

The Nighthawk is indeed an excellent router. However, it is much pricier than the GL.iNet Opal and requires AC power whereas the Opal runs off of USB (better for mobile applications).