I had a thought the other day. I have a Ubiquiti UniFi Security Gateway that is not being used, as well as a UniFi AP: why not get a slightly larger Pelican case, that will still fit in my larger suitcase, and set that up, with one of their switches to power the AP and ... Read More

I hooked the hAP ac Lite back up today to work on getting it set up with the IPsec tunnel again. However, so far it’s giving me a little bit of trouble. I almost want to see if I can get back into the data center so I can put the SG-3100 in in place ... Read More

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