4G LTE modem

>>57406528
What's the tower capacity out there? Using multiple 4g cards and load balancing across them is trivial, but if the tower doesn't have a capacity to handle the load, you won't gain anything.

Maybe just buy a cheap hot-spot from FreedomPOP or some other virtual network operator and use that.

>>57406528
>would it be possible to use 2 of these modems in parallel to increase the speed?
Not really, no. 4G LTE is very commonly use for failover in SMB networks, though. I think pfSense supports it, even.

>>57406598
>What's the tower capacity out there?
I'm not exactly sure. I had a VERY good connection, and I was able to get a 50/20Mbps connection from their location just using my cellphones antenna .

the only available ISP up there was trying to charge him $200/month for a 20/5mbps connection + $200 installation fee (haha, nope).
Kind of crazy that that is acceptable service anywhere in the United States.


>Using multiple 4g cards and load balancing across them is trivial, but if the tower doesn't have a capacity to handle the load, you won't gain anything.

I'm pretty sure that the LTE tower has plenty of bandwidth to spare, it is a very small town it covers .T-mobile upgraded a shit ton of their towers, so i don’t think that is an issue.

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>>57407522
Forgot to add pic..

>>57407522
>I'm pretty sure that the LTE tower has plenty of bandwidth to spare
It won't really matter, because it won't work how you think it will. Do your grandparents have a fairly recent laptop and don't have anything else to connect to the internet? Just get a WWAN mPCI-E card and be done with it.

>>57407537
I was going to use a mPCI-E card adepter, and get a cheap thinkcentre to handle their network, another system for a fileserver / plex server, and another system for their home automation / security.

He really wants me to go all out.

>>57408053
You could probably get a TS140 and do it all on that.

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>>57406528

You can get yourself a beefy router with a USB 3.0 port and just stick in one of those LTE dongles the ISP gives you. Should be more power-effecient than a desktop PC running 24/7

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>>57410554

Second idea - use a cheap older-gen microITX board as a router. They often have a mini PCI-e slot on them and a low-power intel Atom onboard with just a heatsink, so no noise.

>>57406528
I'll take a cradle point for 300 Alex.
>inb4 verizon shill

>>57408053
>3 boxes

You're a fucking idiot, get one box and virtualise everything.

>>57410554
This, most of the new router have this function, or there are 4G routers combo... It's cheaper