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No. Niña and Pinta already have four mobile modems built in.

Yes, all three. Niña and Pinta record to a replaceable memory card while you stream or on their own — a 64 GB card is fitted as standard, and Niña takes cards up to 1 TB, subject to card compatibility. Recording time depends on your quality settings, so we don’t quote hours. Admiral comes with a 128 GB replaceable card.

Niña takes any HDMI camera and USB (UVC) cameras — action cameras, mirrorless cameras with USB video and PTZ cameras. Pinta takes 3G-SDI and HDMI. Both stream over RTMP, RTMPS, SRT, HLS, UDP-TS and RTSP, straight to a platform over one connection or through Lumbus Connect when you combine several. Cameras are not included.

About 4 hours on Niña, about 2 hours on Pinta and more than 4 hours on Admiral, on the internal battery. Pinta and Admiral also run from an external battery. Those are the datasheet figures; real time depends on what you plug in and how hard the modems work.

In packs, not monthly: every Niña and Pinta starts with a 100 GB bonding allowance valid 3 months, and you buy the next pack when you need it from Plan & add-ons in your dashboard. If a pack runs out mid-stream you get 20 GB free so you can finish and buy the next one — nothing is cut off. Your bonding allowance has its own sign-in, set up on your encoder; that is where the balance lives, not in the Lumbus app.

Yes, subject to network and device compatibility. If only one connection is active you don’t need Lumbus Connect; if several are bonded, you do. And it works the other way round: Lumbus SIMs are fitted in a Lumbus encoder when you buy one, or delivered to you to fit in hardware you already own.

Yes — we deliver Lumbus SIMs to fit in your own rig, and Lumbus Studio takes any encoder that can send SRT or RTMP. You keep paying your equipment provider for their own bonding licence: Lumbus Connect does not replace another manufacturer’s proprietary service unless we have verified that compatibility with you.

Yes. Starlink can be used on its own or bonded with other connections. On its own it doesn’t need Lumbus Connect. Bonded with another connection, it does.

Buy a Niña or Pinta with a SIM allowance and the SIMs come fitted, with your Lumbus Connect sign-in set up on the encoder. Streaming on your own hardware? We deliver the SIMs to you and send you the sign-in. Adding more — a bigger SIM allowance, a Connect pack, and with a studio also storage and the plan — happens in Plan & add-ons in your dashboard, with or without a studio; we confirm the rate by email first.

Plan on your video bitrate plus about 20% for bonding overhead: that is what your connections carry and what your SIM allowance counts for the Lumbus SIMs among them. At 8 Mbps that is about 4.3 GB an hour, so 100 GB lasts around 23 hours; a poor network pushes it towards 5 GB an hour. Lumbus Connect counts differently — the stream in plus a copy out per destination — see the next answers. The estimator on the connectivity page works both out.

No. The same stream is split across whatever you bond, so two, six or twelve links carry the same total — about 4.3 GB an hour at 8 Mbps, divided between them. Weak networks and heavier redundancy settings raise usage; the number of connections by itself does not.

Lumbus Connect counts what passes through it: the bonded stream coming in, plus every copy going out — each destination you send to, a live preview you keep open, and any recording you pull from the receiving service. Bonding more connections does not add to it; more destinations do. With Lumbus Studio as the destination, all your platforms count as one. For every 100 GB of bonded streaming, expect about 183 GB of Connect to one destination, 267 GB to two, 433 GB to four — or 183 GB to any number of platforms through Lumbus Studio. The bonding service’s own written definition, confirmed with you at onboarding, is the binding one.

Work it out from Connect usage, not from your SIM allowance — the estimator does it for your bitrate, hours and destinations. Packs suit setup, a trip or an event, and occasional streaming. For regular bonded streaming Unlimited is usually cheaper than packs bought several times a year, and it never runs out mid-stream. The 100 GB in the box is a starter: about 55 GB of bonded streaming to one destination.

Niña and Pinta are available to buy only. Admiral projects are handled privately by the sales team.

Lumbus designs the service and configures, manages and supports every part of it. Manufacturing, mobile networks, bonding and hosting come from specialist partners.

Because we would be selling something we cannot buy. Allowances are bought country by country at a real wholesale cost, and an honest unlimited plan needs a wholesale agreement behind it. Rather than sell an “unlimited” plan and then throttle, cap or geo-restrict it in the small print, we quote the allowance and the countries you actually stream from. If we get a genuine unlimited or fair-use wholesale deal, we will publish it with the terms attached.

Yes, and it never has a price. Niña and Pinta ship with the Lumbus belt pack; Admiral ships with the Lumbus backpack. Neither is a separate product, an accessory line or an upsell at checkout.

You get usage alerts before the allowance is exhausted, and you can top up or move to a larger allowance. We don’t charge surprise overage fees.

Yes. Every recorded stream downloads as standard MP4 files that open in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut. Recordings are kept 14 days on Studio and 30 days on Studio Pro, so pull them down and they’re yours for good.

Lumbus never ends an active broadcast just because your connection disappears. A lost signal, a schedule, a restart of the studio software or an update never end a stream you are running — the stream ends when you end it, with a slide to confirm. What the machine cannot promise at any moment it says on your studio page, in plain words.

Your machine keeps streaming, keeps switching scenes from your signal and keeps recording; only the buttons wait until Lumbus is back. If the machine restarts while Lumbus is unreachable it runs on the settings it last applied and takes the latest ones the moment Lumbus answers.

Send H.264 or H.265 at the bitrate your connection carries — 4 to 8 Mbps is the usual range at 1080p60, more for 4K. Studio makes its own output from that one feed (1080p60 on Studio; 1440p60 and 4K60 on Studio Pro for YouTube and custom RTMP — Twitch, Kick and TikTok take 1080p at most), so a change of output quality never restarts anything mid-stream.

On a private machine in the region you pick — London, Frankfurt, US East, US West, Singapore or Tokyo — so the hop to it is short. Move it between trips from Your studio; your scenes and destinations come with it. On a schedule it sleeps when you are done and wakes before you start, never while anything is streaming.

Studio and Studio Pro are at early streamer prices: $99 and $149 a month instead of the standard $129 and $199. The crossed-out figure is the standard price; the lower one is what you pay. Plans are monthly and cancel any time. If what you pay is ever to change, we email you before it does.

One test stream. Your studio has its own SRT and RTMP address from day one — point your encoder at it, paste your channel keys, test off-air, and cut over when it looks right. Your current provider keeps running until you cancel it, so nothing goes dark.