4G home Wi-Fi
- Thread starter Grain Buyer
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- SG9
Out of my depth here! Been looking for Home-Fi not got anywhere. The gadget talked about sounds ideal for me as an upgrade more and further reception My 4 year old Huawe E586 struggles to get from one end of the house to the other. Would you be able to contact a printer from a laptop instead of having to each time connect to the printer wi fi every time you want to print from laptop?
My printer works fine , you can get an extender to boost the signal.
Pheasant Surprise
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- Woodbridge, Suffolk
Basic routers like those bundled from EE or the likes of the Huawei's are aimed at the domestic market. They're bog standard and work fine but they don't have any other more useful features that you will find with the likes of Proroute or CradlePoint.
These routers are more aimed at the commercial market (called M2M which is short for Machine-to-Machine). They have better management features and are usually more ruggedised - because they are often installed in remote locations, in vehicles and may not have someone available to support them directly.
If you are going to look at a more expensive router, one of they key things to look at is whether they can support multiple SIMs - this is really useful, if you need to expand on your data allowance - say in your situation 64GB + 64GB should you need it. The router could be setup to use all the allowance on one SIM, then changeover in the background to the second SIM. Alternatively you could have a SIM from EE in there or one from Vodafone as a backup and the router can "fail-over" from one to the other.
Anyone used a 4G router linked to IP cameras?
A guy asked me yesterday about installing a camera in his remote farm shed so he can check the cattle from home.
Apparently from what I have read, you can't use your EE,O2 etc sim data cards because of the way they use public IP addresses which rules out the use of dyndns or no-IP. Need to use a fixed IP sim which costs a fortune.
Any truth in this?
A guy asked me yesterday about installing a camera in his remote farm shed so he can check the cattle from home.
Apparently from what I have read, you can't use your EE,O2 etc sim data cards because of the way they use public IP addresses which rules out the use of dyndns or no-IP. Need to use a fixed IP sim which costs a fortune.
Any truth in this?
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- Northumberland
Pheasant Surprise
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- Woodbridge, Suffolk
There are ways around it - basically in nerd speak you need to establish what is called a VPN (virtual private network) using software/possibly hardware that creates a semi permanent "tunnel" for the traffic to traverse across the double NAT segment (the bit of the carriers network-edge of your network, that doesn't have a public facing IP).
There are commercial out of the box solutions that do this for lots of stuff already - Nest thermostats/cameras, Ring doorbells/camera etc., etc
Edit - One option if you own a Synology NAS box, you can run a service called QuickConnect on the box which will enable you to connect to it remotely. If the NAS box is running the Synology Surveillance Station app then you have a one stop shop.
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I use Three, payg sim. Top up £25, convert to a 30 day bundle and hey presto, unlimited download!