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Is Mobile Internet an Important Part of your Lifestyle?
If you consider internet access almost as necessary as fuel, water, food and electricity - you've come to the right place.
Whether you're working from the road or water, attending online classes, keeping in touch with friends & family, planning your next destination, sharing your adventures or keeping entertained.
Assembling the mobile internet solution that fits your unique lifestyle can be an overwhelming challenge. Especially since there are so many options, and they change all the time!
We've made it our focus to keep on top of this rapidly changing industry and maintain educational resources to help make this stuff easier to understand. ... so you can concentrate on what drives you!
What is the MIA? (Mobile Internet Aficionados)
We are primarily member funded, our MIAs make all of our content possible without influence of advertising, sponsorships or selling you 'stuff'. For that support, our members go further than our free content.
Our Goal: To Save you Time, Money & Frustration
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Exclusive Content & Savings
Get access to in-depth guides, courses, product reviews & field testing notes, alerts, videos, interactive guidance, and insider tips. With our content, you'll not only be better able to make the right choices for you - when purchasing expensive gear, some of our vendor discounts can even save you more than the cost of membership.
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Educational Focused - Become an Aficionado
We firmly believe in our approach that everyone's mobile internet needs are unique and there is no best setup. We focus on creating content to help you understand and choose your best solution. There is a learning curve, but our team is here to help you navigate this.
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Up to Date & Ahead of the Curve
We make it our mission to keep our eyes and ears focused on this niche topic. Between constantly scanning resources, our industry contacts and our public outreach - you'll have information kept as current as humanly possible to make timely informed decisions.
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Community Focused
We are dedicated to helping our nomadic community stay informed on this topic, and through member funding we can provide a lot of our content for free. Our members also become part of our community through our forums and webinars - helping each other in addition to our team.
The Mobile Internet Resource Center was founded in 2014 after Chris & Cherie shared for years about this topic on their travel blog at Technomadia.com. They became full time technomads in 2006, taking their high tech careers on the road traveling by various RVs and boat.
As the resource center has grown, so has our team to keep the incredible amount of content we're covering updated and helping our members find their right solution. Meet our team on our About Page. Our team is made up of fellow nomads who depend on mobile internet themselves.
Library Card
- Newsletters & Notifications
- Exclusive Content: Guides, Reviews & Analysis
- Extra Features
MIA+ Membership
- All Library Card Features
- + Interactive Guidance: Forums, Webinars & Facebook Group
- + Insider Tips & Testing Data
- + Vendor Discounts (Save $)
- + Mobile Internet Video & 101 Courses
- Access to Purchase Private Advising Sessions
MIA+ with Private Advising
then $129/yr $295
- All MIA+ Membership Benefits
- + Private Advising Session - 45m ($149 value)
- Save $3 by pre-purchasing an advising session. Or, book a session later as desired.
We offer private advising sessions as an optional add-on to our MIA members - add one now, or later if you decide you'd like one. These sessions give you one-on-one time with our team to review your needs and proposed mobile internet setup before you purchase it. Or use the session to address questions you in a private setting (as opposed to our member forums, which are included).
Learn More About Private Advising
Annual Subscriptions
Because your ongoing support helps us better plan our resources - we're happy to lock in a discounted rate if you setup automatic recurring annual renewals.
Coupon Code Policy
Coupon codes are only valid for new Mobile Internet Aficionado memberships ('Library Card Access' not eligible) and only one can be used for a new membership, and can not be combined with sales/specials.
MobileMustHave Insider Memberships
Our Education & Action partner at MobileMustHave offers an Explore Membership that includes a MIA Membership without the video course. If you are narrowing in on purchasing gear & plans from MMH, it is worth looking at their membership instead for the additional perks. You can also start with our membership for your research phase and upgrade if you end up purchasing from MMH with a pro-rated refund.
Returning Member?
Login to re-activate your membership at our returning member rates.
Join Risk Free
We're pleased to offer a ton of free guides & videos here on the resource center that should give you a good feel for our style and depth of content. We encourage you to utilize the free stuff before joining and see if our content clicks with you.
It's our hope that by the time you decide to join, you've already received value from our resource center and want to support it.
However, if you find that in the first 30 days that becoming a member was not the right fit for you - just ask. We'll be happy to refund your full membership fee provided you've not utilized any vendor discounts.
More Information On the Membership Levels:
Our Library Card Holder level is the basic membership.
It's meant for those who are more self paced with an existing understanding of this technology, don't desire interactive assistance and/or who have already assembled their setup and just want to stay up to date on the latest.
The benefits included are:
Exclusive Content - Guides, Reviews, Videos
We release most of our in-depth mobile internet guides, product reviews, guides and produced videos to our paid members exclusively.
You'll also find extra tips and insider info embedded in some news articles, just for members.
Note: Library Card Holders however do not get access to content contained in our community interactive areas (forums, comments, groups, webinars). You will miss out on discussions, comments, troubleshooting, questions/answers and member sharing. Our staff also posts unconfirmed breaking stories, insider tips, in progress testing notes of gear, and alerts in these areas. Once confirmed/finalized, this content is moved to articles, guides and gear center entries available to all members.
E-mail Notifications & Newsletters
Our exclusive newsletter delivered by e-mail at least monthly (usually twice) summarizing new content on this site.
This means you don't have to pro-actively check in to see what's up if you don't want to - just check your mail and skim the newsletter.
Our newsletters are more in-depth and comprehensive than our free public monthly summary, and might contain member exclusive insider tips.
Special Alerts - We issue special breaking news alerts if we hear of anything that might impact our members that needs to be acted on quickly.
Extra Features
Throughout the site we have provided some extra features to make your time with us easier, including:
- Sample Setup Explorer - our interactive area to explore sample setups to make learning & deciding on your approach easier.
- Member Dashboard - get a quick glance at new stories, new gear, forum posts, alerts, videos, newsletter archives and more.
- Bookmarking - Easily save guides, gear pages, articles and more to come back to later via the Dashboard.
MIA+ is our full membership level. It's most ideal for those starting their research to assemble their setup, doing a total refresh, or for those who want to tap into the wealth of knowledge a community can provide.
Library Card Access
You get all Library Card benefits, plus:
Mobile Internet Courses
We offer two courses to our MIA+ Members:
Mobile Internet 101: This structured course walks you through our guides - ramping you up from understanding your options, assessing your needs to selecting your plans & gear. Get a free preview of Section 1 in Our Classroom.
Mobile Internet Video Course: For visual learners or those just getting started - we also offer a developed Video Course.
Interactive Community Areas
Got questions? Need help or guidance? MIAs have multiple venues for reaching out to the community, and our staff.
Ask in our member exclusive forums, in comments on articles & guides, in our private Facebook Group and during our regularly scheduled casual Q&A video webinars.
Insider Aficionado Access
We constantly have our eyes out in multiple places to try keep ahead of the industry. When we're at liberty to do so, MIAs get advanced notice - including tips we've picked up on, upcoming products, warnings of upcoming changes, breaking stories we're still researching and heads-up on limited time offerings.
We also share our testing in progress notes of gear we are evaluating.
Webinars
We host member exclusive Q&A webinar to ask questions of our staff in a casual interactive platform. We also host special edition webinars if there are merits with major breaking industry developments. See the schedule on the bottom of every page of the website.
Vendor Discounts
While we are not sponsored by any vendor or manufacturer, several extend special discounts to our MIA members. They include: MobileMustHave, Winegard/WiFiRanger, weBoost, Visible, TechnoRV, Insty Connect, Onboard Wireless, Speedify, Waveform, Powerful Signal, 5GStore, Wireless Haven and more.
Discounts can be as much as 10-11%.
Optional Advising Sessions
Want an expert to review your proposed setup before you click the buy button? Our MIA members can book a private video session with our staff for an additional fee.