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

We’re now into the fall, and this is around the time the case’s original intention would be used. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it won’t be. AWA, at least my long-standing version of it, isn’t happening. The convention is happening, but my group isn’t flying in for it. Ah well. It’ll be a fun ... Read More

Happy Easter Weekend folks! I took some time today to get all the gear in the new case, and it all fits! Obviously I’ll carry a plug strip (or two) in my luggage separate from the case, and the LTE device will be in my laptop bag until in the room proper. I believe I’ve ... Read More

We’re back! I’ve got the hAP ac2 on order: I can deal with no PoE out. The reasoning for this is twofold: 1) the ac2 has IPsec acceleration, and 2) it’s apparently not hard to replicate the failover of Ethernet to LTE that I had on the FortiWiFi and SonicWall on RouterOS. Chances are very ... Read More