re: Anyone experienced with 4G/LTE modems? Froogle sees the RUT950 at $278 which is a little steep. I was using an $88 Xgody phone that mostly worked. I used it for a couple months and I think the prolonged use of the WiFi hotspot maybe overheated it. The WiFi and GPS both stopped working after being intermittent. Both are sometimes built into the CPUs on those I've read.
I have used USB tethering from a phone to an OpenBSD machine and bridged that to a WiFi card set up as an AP. I'm not impressed with the reliability of WiFi after using it a few months. It's convenient when it works but I'd rather run wires then maybe hang WiFi APs off them, like one at each end of the house. I didn't know about umsm, I'll try to find one of the supported devices. That's what I was looking for. On 11/3/15, Tati Chevron <chev...@swabsit.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 03:31:07PM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: >>What I'd like to get is something I can connect to an OpenBSD machine >>over USB or go for one of the slightly better ones that offers an >>ethernet connection. Firewall it, connect it through my wired LAN, >>run a WiFi AP for portable devices. I'm on Straight Talk, so AT&T >>towers, I'm looking for something unlocked. > > Have you looked at the 3G routers by teltonika? Specifically the RUT950. > > They support operation in bridge mode, so you can basically disable all of > the > internal routing and firewalling, and dedicate an OpenBSD machine to that > task. > > They have decent antennas, too. > > Unlike DSL routers, most 3G routers don't have an option to run in bridge > mode. > > -- > Tati Chevron > Perl and FORTRAN specialist. > SWABSIT development and migration department. > http://www.swabsit.com > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
