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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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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