31 Dec
2015
31 Dec
'15
6:16 a.m.
On Thursday (12/31/2015 at 12:02AM -0600), Jim Brain wrote:
On 12/30/2015 10:51 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
I build those kinds of routers for my day job. It's pretty much
routine now to see 50Mbps up and down on a 4G LTE link. CAT4 will do
even better. I have a little box running OpenWRT (totally open source)
with the cellular modem inside and ethernet out the back. Does what a
cable modem+router or DSL modem+router does but does it over cellular.
As you have discovered though, finding an affordable package is the trick.
My world is IoT/M2M and so there is a lot of bundling and pooling of
plans going on to reduce the per user costs in that space.
Chris
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Chris Elmquist
We're at least 2.5 miles from the DSLAM, so
DSL is *not* an
option. That's the distance on the private roads and I haven't
seen where the DSLAM might be (nearest town is 5 miles away once
you get to the "public" roads).
We're in a similar boat. We're
too far away for DSL, microwave
can't reach us due to the treeline, and Cable isn't available here.
I took a page from FullTime RV folks, and bought a commercial grade
router/AP that uses cellular modems for uplink, and then found a
business cellular package that has unlimited use. We burn through
400GB every month here.