WINEGARD Togo Road Link C2

This device is Awesome! Works faster than my Verizon hotspot from my iPhone, at less than half the cost! We decided to forgo renewing satellite TV, and stream Netflix and Prime tv. Also, all our web browsing, and bill paying is done over the internet. You sign up for an AT&T contract(I paid the entire $360 for year), and you get a phone number for your account. In traveling, I found that AT&T and Verizon tend to cover each others weak area, so that I have almost(nothing is perfect)complete coverage! Of course, I'll defer to Togo, whenever I can, because of the data cost at Verizon. Easy install, I removed old Wineguard TV antenna, and mounted togo over old hole and used it to route new power wires inside, and used the power from the antenna(it was the boosted one that had a 12v source.) Love IT! Would buy again.

I live out on 12 acre in the woods. I have lousy internet... I have a choice though. I started out with a Verizon hotspot. When that slowed, I bought a HughesNet Gen5 dish. That's about as fast as dial up. I had a buddy who had an RV and brought over his Togo. It worked well enough I bought one in October, 2019 and paid $360 for the 12 months unlimited data from AT&T. It worked great for 5 months... It would occasionally need to be rebooted but small price to pay. I called Winegard when mine crapped out. They sent another with instructions to swap SIM cards and call AT&T to activate the new IMEI# with the old SIM... Still nothing... It just blinks fast orange. My cell phone links to it and shows me there is no coverage.. It's on... But there is no Internet. I called AT&T and have spent a combined 30 hours on the phone with their tech support. I even took in into a AT&T store to have them look at it. NOTHING! I paid $400 for this in October and another $360 pre-paid for 12 months service and now am left holding the bag with a worthless carrier who cannot provide service to a worthless router! Winegard hasn't a clue and won't offer money back. My advise... Just go buy a Verizon Jetpack and use that! AT&T did away with the $360 unlimited... One of the AT&T reps said they audited my account and realized that the IMEI number wasn't supposed to go on the unlimited plan... He wasn't 100% sure though. Still.. The end result is I have $760 invested in something that is now totally, 100% WORTHLESS!EDIT: 5/31/20 - I found that by poking around in the settings... (Have your cell phone set to your Winegard router and entering 10.11.12.1) and entering the admin password... I could check on Cell Providers. Mine was originally set to "TH2" instead of AT&T... I was directed by Winegard to set it this way. When I switched back to TH2... I got my signal back. It's not as fast as before but that may because of tower changes or the fact that there are now leaves on the trees in the woods that provide an element of obstruction now that I didn't have earlier. However... I have also found that this should work for ANY carrier and I plan on switching over to Verizon when my 12 month deal ends with AT&T. According to the info in settings... I'll need to download new firmware to the router in order to do this. I will update as changes occur.

First of all it was a pretty easy straightforward install. I mounted the kill switch near the 12vdc power source IT-tapped into. I bought it to take advantage of the AT&T unlimited plan for $360 per year, but it was discontinued before I signed up. The silver lining is that they should be unlocking it for more carriers now. T-Mobile and Verizon I believe. Not sure if I saw Sprint as an option or not. I needed some tech support to diagnose a possible speed issue with my AT&T pay as you go plan on it. Winegard techs were very thorough and responsive. I’m not currently using it as a cellular hotspot, rather I have my existing Nighthawk hotspot broadcasting a very strong WiFi signal in and all around the RV. Now we don’t have any problems outside of the RV with our Wireless cameras or getting WiFi outside of it. Speeds are very usable and we like that when we hook our 5th wheel up to our truck we still have a WiFi signal. We can even use our interior camera to check on how things are holding up inside of the RV while we drive. I’m very happy with the purchase. It will be nice if another special (cheap) unlimited internet offer surfaces for it like they had before. That being said there is also a Winegard Connect 2.0 product that might be worth looking into that might have more flexibility and capability than this model, now that the special unlimited plan for the TOGO is no more.

Update 60 days in: we now have to reboot the unit several times per day, as often as every thirty minutes sometimes. I also learned that as of a week ago, AT&T will no longer offer their unlimited plan. So when my prepaid year expires in November, I can opt to pay $300 per month for 100GB or I just bought this Togo for nothing. Yes, I said $300 per MONTH. Our usage is about 125 GB each month (we are full time RVers with jobs and a teenager who plays video games). Seems like the makers would have known two months ago that they were planning on getting rid of the plan and could have offered a warning.Original review: Set up was not as difficult as others described. We didn't like the idea of screwing holes into the RV, so we have a temporary set up that we can remove when traveling and put back up within 5 minutes of stopping. The hardest part for us was figuring out hooking the wiring up to power since we aren't electricians. I find it odd that it doesn't have some other method for hooking to power than just bare wires that have to be connected to 12v power. Once we figured that out (with a lot of help from YouTube), it works great...even in rural areas when there's no other internet service around! It does have to be rebooted about once a week, but that's not a big deal. We are full time RVers, so hitting a button on a cell phone once a week to have Internet isn't bothersome at all.