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Proxicast updated the PocketPORT 2’s firmware to officially support the USB800, so I updated mine, factory reset it, plugged the USB800 in, and it came up without any issues. What a neat little device that solves so many problems! Anyway, I’ve still not decided on what to use going forward, but I am definitely leaning ... Read More

It works! We’re set with a replacement for the AF23 to use with the USB800. Big props to their support for getting back to me quickly after hours! The biggest question now is: what device do we use? Since I’m planning on having the USB800 as the primary connection, it really means, well, whichever we ... Read More

The aircard seems to be working fine with pfSense despite being, well, a little fussy: it’s fussy enough that I’ve got a Proxicast PocketPort 2 on order. This little jewel is powered by Micro-USB and converts a USB aircard to 10/100 Ethernet. It supports the Verizon equivalent of the USB800, so I should be good ... Read More

I went back to pfSense for my home firewall since soon I will have AT&T Fiber and need to do the bypass trick, so I decided to see if I could figure out how to get the USB800 working which actually took not much effort. I plugged it into the MicroPC and enabled the AT ... Read More

Hi friends! Currently at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, OK, for my return flight to the 7th Circle of Hell, I mean, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and this trip was a big success on the data front: the USB800 had good speeds and no inexplicable slowdowns at all. I think we finally have ... Read More

No, I’ve not decided to get rid of the full Internet-in-a-Box in favor of something smaller. What I have done, however, is fill the gap between aircard alone and the full case for single day or less setups. What does this mean, and why am I doing this instead of using an actual hotspot device? ... Read More

The work trip to Nashville was partially successful on the Internet in a Box front. Speeds were great when I arrived Sunday afternoon then proceeded to tank over the next two days, which made zero sense. By Monday morning download speeds were seemingly stuck at 1.5 Mbps while uploads were 30 Mbps+. I left my ... Read More

Happy New Year! Since our last post I’ve struggled with some issues that I documented in a rather large OneNote document. Internet-based traffic seemed to be okay, but the USB extension started showing issues with the SonicWall after I pumped a lot of data through it, so I reloaded OpenWrt on the APU2 and managed ... Read More

Well, some unexpected things have happened that pushed us back to 4th and long at our 1… I managed to acquire the USB800, and once it arrived I immediately plugged it into the USB extension I had the MF861 plugged into and… it went into a boot loop with pfSense. I was understandably somewhat disappointed ... Read More

We are back, and things are proceeding nicely with the internet in a Box rebuild: the new apu2d0 arrived and is running pfSense with an IPsec tunnel back to the datacenter firewall. Also new is the LTE modem in use: ZTE’s MF861 “Velocity USB Stick”. However, this will ultimately be replaced with the Inseego Global ... Read More