The non-consumer grade units will have wired ethernet ports. My favorite
is the Sierra Wireless RV50X. It is rock solid stable and uses less than
1 watt of power.
https://www.sierrawireless.com/products-and-solutions/routers-gateways/rv50/
The problem I have run into with the JetPacks and the like is that they
are consumer orientated and expect to have somebody there to poke and
prod them when required. I had a 450 mile service trip to an island so I
could press "okay" on the screen to acknowledge that it had updated.
Then it returned back to normal service. For another customer, a cell
phone company at their cell tower, they suggested that we hard cycle the
power every 24 hours to prevent crashes.
Why don't OEMs include WiFi? It's a support nightmare. You either need
another screen on the device just to setup WiFi or you need convoluted
instructions and apps for both iPhone and Android. And then it works
fine until somebody changes the wireless credentials and then its back
to the convoluted setup again.
-James Jarvis
APRS World, LLC
On 4/11/20 3:08 PM, Kirk Herander wrote:
Just did the exact same thing using a Verizion Jetpack. Works quite well
transmitting both Mate3s and Blue Ion egauge data simultaneously.
Trouble is it does not have a LAN port, wifi only, so I had to use a
Netgear wall repeater with a port, along with an ethernet switch to
plug everything into.
And I could use any pointers on how to create the LAN port with less
hassle. I don't know of any Verizon-compatible modem with a built-in LAN
port.
Also why doesn't the Mate3s and other OEMs use wifi in their products?
Very few do. It is 2020 after all.
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