Am I asking for a headache? New rural setup
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:49 am
I wish I found this forum last year when I was close to pulling the trigger on a cba850, but instead got the new 8800L MiFi. I'll try and keep this brief while detailing my current situation if it helps. Before the MiFi my setup consisted of a phone tethered to a PC running connectify hotspot. Then wired bridge to my two routers in the house. Speeds with varying phones never consistently hit more than 30mbps at best. 8800L has been killing it speed wise with cat 18. I now get a healthy 30-60mbps, thats with my tower being 4.4mi away. I have a WeBoost 4G-X pointed to intercept that towers signal 2.7mi away to though. Fast forward to now, I'm tired of torturing this poor MiFi and swelling the batteries up. I did try just about everything from putting it on a timer and even deleting the battery. I thought for sure I could hack up a cable to feed it power and direct to the pins then all would be well. Figured it wouldn't like 5v and wanted 3.8-4.2v instead. Tried using diodes and even a voltage regulator. I keep getting it to work until I download heavy. I think its drawing too much current so after I start downloading a big file I see the amps go up and it shuts off. Part of me wants to figure out a solution to this, the other part says burn it, time to change it up! Anyone have any suggestions should I purse this cable mod or do what I should have done and buy a modem?
TLDR
1) If I go with a new setup is it worth it build my own dedicated router with a pci or m.2 card?
2) I'm building a new wall mounted PC that will be right across from my inside antenna. Should I just slap in a Telit LM960 or EM7411?
3)Since Ive had such good speeds with cat 18 do you think if say I get a Em7411 it will be much slower?
4)If I go overkill with the LM960 what pci or m.2 board should I pair it with to add the sim card?
5)Probably about to have VZW all over me if I do any of these aren't I? (Have gUDP plan)
Looking forward to reading and learning even more. Seems I'm one of the few who wants to dump a modem straight into my PC so may have more questions soon. Would really appreciate some input thanks!
TLDR
1) If I go with a new setup is it worth it build my own dedicated router with a pci or m.2 card?
2) I'm building a new wall mounted PC that will be right across from my inside antenna. Should I just slap in a Telit LM960 or EM7411?
3)Since Ive had such good speeds with cat 18 do you think if say I get a Em7411 it will be much slower?
4)If I go overkill with the LM960 what pci or m.2 board should I pair it with to add the sim card?
5)Probably about to have VZW all over me if I do any of these aren't I? (Have gUDP plan)
Looking forward to reading and learning even more. Seems I'm one of the few who wants to dump a modem straight into my PC so may have more questions soon. Would really appreciate some input thanks!