• Re: If I didn't live in a

    From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jan 6 19:53:00 2021
    Re: Re: If I didn't live in a
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Tue Jan 05 2021 07:01 am

    Subject: Re: If I didn't live in a pla
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    Moondog wrote to Ogg <=-

    A friend that lives 2 miles to the north of me went throught the ATT fixed wireless (available to the north of me) and a tech came out and set up a wifi router that took a SIM card. It was set up where it had good reception and had an external cell antenna.

    It's probably just an ATA that connects a phone line to a wireless radio and not a router?

    We're playing with Cradlepoint routers at work, they sound like what you describe. With a 5G radio and a couple of big antennas, they are set up as backup WAN connections. When my AT&T circuit goes down (not if, unfortunately), our firewall nails up a VPN connection over the Cradlepoint to the home office, where the networking team sits.



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    It's the same technology that's in a wireless hotspot or usb data dongle, except it offers bother wifi and wired ethernet connections. You purchase a data plan tied to the sim.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Thu Jan 7 11:15:00 2021
    Moondog wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    It's the same technology that's in a wireless hotspot or usb data
    dongle, except it offers bother wifi and wired ethernet connections.
    You purchase a data plan tied to the sim.


    Oh, OK - that makes sense - we were talking about home voice wireless
    earlier, I was confusing the two. With 5g coming, they keep promising us
    home 5g networking, that would be a nice disruption to a mostly monopoly environment with home networking.


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