One connection or several. You choose.
Multi-network SIMs get you online. Lumbus Connect combines two or more connections into one reliable stream. Lumbus hardware can stream over a single connection, or bond several for resilience — which of those you do decides whether you need Lumbus Connect, nothing else does.
Connect is not required.
- · One SIM
- · Ethernet only
- · Wi-Fi only
- · Starlink only
- · One connection live, the rest kept as manual backups
Lumbus Connect bonds them.
- · Two or more mobile SIMs at once
- · A mobile SIM and Starlink
- · A mobile SIM and Ethernet
- · Ethernet and Starlink
- · Several SIMs plus Wi-Fi
- · Several SIMs, Ethernet and Starlink together
Multi-network SIMs (4G/5G), priced for where you stream.
Multi-network SIMs (4G/5G) priced for where you stream. Choose your destination to see available networks and your final rate.
Your SIM allowance is priced by the countries you stream from.
- Europe
- Europe incl. UK, Switzerland, Norway
- North America
- United States, Canada, Mexico
- Gulf and MENA
- Gulf states, Middle East, North Africa
- Asia Pacific
- Japan, Korea, SE Asia, India, Australia, NZ
- All regions
- Routes that cross more than one of them
Tell us your route and we confirm the networks on it.
- One allowance shared across every Lumbus SIM on your account — the dashboard shows the total used.
- Buy it monthly, or for a single trip.
- Your own Starlink, Ethernet, Wi-Fi or SIMs stay billed by whoever provides them. Only Lumbus SIMs count against your allowance.
- Usage alerts before an allowance runs out, and no surprise overage charges.
Your data allowance includes the traffic used to protect your stream, such as bonding overhead and retransmissions. Actual usage depends on bitrate, network quality and redundancy settings.
Your SIM allowance is quoted for the countries on your route, not from a single worldwide rate.
Price it for your routeHours are at 8 Mbps — the usual 1080p60 target — and include bonding overhead. A lower bitrate buys more hours; a higher one buys fewer. Your SIM allowance is quoted for the countries on your route, not from a single worldwide rate. Baseline rates — your rate follows the countries you stream from. Need 1 TB, 2 TB or more a month? We quote it for your route rather than publish a figure.
Your bitrate plus about 20% going in. A copy going out for each destination.
Bonding adds error correction and retransmissions on top of the video, so plan on your bitrate times 1.2 for what your connections carry. Lumbus Connect counts that stream coming in and a copy going out per destination — or one copy in total when Lumbus Studio is the destination. How many connections you bond changes neither number.
one output — the studio sends to all your platforms from Lumbus
- Your connections carry
- 242 GB
- 4.3 GB an hour · 8 Mbps × 1.2 · 4 h × 14 days
- Lumbus Connect counts
- 444 GB
- in, plus 1 copy out
The 100 GB starter in the box lasts about 13 hours at these settings.
Planning figures at the settings above. Lumbus Connect bonding allowances are bought in packs, not monthly. Each pack has an allowance and a validity, and you buy the next one when you need it.
Your data allowance includes the traffic used to protect your stream, such as bonding overhead and retransmissions. Actual usage depends on bitrate, network quality and redundancy settings.
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.
The 100 GB in the box is a starter: sending to one destination it covers about 55 GB of bonded streaming — roughly 13 hours at 8 Mbps — enough to set up, test and run your first streams.
| Conditions | An hour | A 100 GB allowance lasts |
|---|---|---|
| Video only, no bonding | 3.6 GB | 28 h |
| Clean bonded connection | 3.8 GB | 26 h |
| Lumbus planning assumption | 4.3 GB | 23 h |
| Poor network | 4.7 GB | 21 h |
Bitrate plus bonding overhead is what the links carry and what your SIM allowance counts, for the Lumbus SIMs among them.
| Where it goes | Connect |
|---|---|
| Bonded stream in, nothing out | 100 GB |
| To one platform | 183 GB |
| To two platforms | 267 GB |
| To four platforms | 433 GB |
| To Lumbus Studio, any number of platforms | 183 GB |
| A full-quality preview kept open, on top | +83 GB |
| A low-quality preview kept open, on top | +8 GB |
| A recording pulled from the receiving service, on top | +83 GB |
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.
| Bonded links | Each link | Total an hour |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2.16 GB | 4.32 GB |
| 6 | 0.72 GB | 4.32 GB |
| 12 | 0.36 GB | 4.32 GB |
The same stream divided across the links you bond. Weak networks and heavier redundancy settings raise usage; the link count by itself does not — and neither does it change what Connect counts.
- Lumbus SIMs
- 60 GB
- Starlink
- 30 GB
- Ethernet
- 10 GB
- SIM allowance used
- 60 GB
- Bonded stream into Lumbus Connect
- 100 GB
The SIM allowance counts only the Lumbus SIMs. Everything you bond feeds the stream Lumbus Connect counts coming in — then a copy out per destination on top.
Lumbus Connect combines two or more connections into one reliable stream.
What you use is a bonding allowance, measured in gigabytes — it is not a SIM allowance. If you stream on one connection you never touch it; if you bond several, it is what turns them into one reliable stream at your destination.
Every Niña and Pinta includes a 100 GB starter bonding allowance for Lumbus Connect, valid for three months — enough to set up, test and run your first bonded streams. Lumbus Connect is used when combining two or more connections. The SIM allowance is sold separately.
The included bonding allowance starts when you first combine connections. We confirm the start of the three months with you before it runs.
Lumbus Connect bonding allowances are bought in packs, not monthly. Each pack has an allowance and a validity, and you buy the next one when you need it. Packs are prepaid and expire on the validity shown. A bonding allowance is not a SIM allowance.
If a pack runs out mid-stream you get a 20 GB bonding allowance free, so you can finish and buy your next pack — nothing is cut off.
Your Lumbus Connect bonding allowance comes with its own sign-in — set up on your Lumbus encoder, or sent to you if you use your own hardware. Your balance lives there; the Lumbus app and dashboard do not show it. Packs are bought from Plan & add-ons on the web.
Work out what you actually need.
The setup builder asks one question about your connections and adds Lumbus Connect only if the answer calls for it. Your SIM allowance is priced after you say where you stream.
Build your setup