I mentioned in the last post about using the testing server with an OPNsense VM connected to my T-Mobile Home Internet box with success. I decided to work from this, get my hands on a NETGEAR M5, the 5G version of the MR1100 we used all those years ago, perform the necessary adjustments on it, ... Read More

Quick follow up to the last one.I’m renting a /48 because I’m going to have connection failover at home at some point in the future, so why not borrow a /64 from that for the case?I plugged the test server into my T-Mobile 5G Home Internet the other night, spun an OPNsense VM up, set ... Read More

Wow, this is the closest posts have been together in a while. I was doing some research the past couple of days, and while I did mention in the last post that I was looking at OPNsense vs. OpenWrt, realizing that OPNsense needs more resources means that I’ll stick to OpenWrt for the firewall VM. ... Read More

With recent discoveries regarding specific 5G hotspots, I think it’s time I looked into moving on to 5G NR from the 4G (WiMax then LTE) we’ve been on for over a decade. While 4G served us a lot better than 3G did, one day it will be shut down. Although that day is not to ... Read More

As the title says, we’re in the planning phase again. As I mentioned in the last post, I’m planning to make the case into a self-contained system requiring one single AC power cable (100-240v). Instead of using the ON100, however, I’m going to set a Fitlet3 up as a PoE-powered small hypervisor using Proxmox. The ... Read More

Well here we are, a month after the last post. I’ve got a permanent address now, and I have proper Internet again. My roommates and I moved in a couple of weeks ago, and we were getting by using the hAP ac2 with the aircard. It had its moments but worked flawlessly. T-Mobile LTE is ... Read More

The last few months have been a bit tumultuous. First off: I’m now in the Pacific Northwest but not settled permanently yet. As such I’m using the mini case currently. It has served me well since I left Metro Atlanta 2 months ago. I was reading back through older posts, and I realized I had ... Read More

I wrote about this in the main blog the other day, so I’m not going to write too much about the circumstances here. Last weekend I pulled my gear out of Coloblox because I’m hoping to leave Metro Atlanta sometime next year. In place of there, I spun a Nanode up in Linode’s Seattle data ... Read More

Oh geez, I’ve not written anything on here since last November. Oops. Just chiming in to say I’m still alive, and I’ve done some minor work on the primary portable setup and have working secondary setups. The primary setup that lives in the Pelican 1450 is still the Mikrotik hAP ac2 that is back running ... Read More

We’re back! A week ago, I returned from attending AWA, and I actually made use of the hotel reservation! It landed me Diamond status with Hilton, and quite surprisingly the aircard worked really well! As I’ve said before, I’ve done a lot of testing at ground level around that area, and I was quite pleased ... Read More