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

It’s been a week since I returned from AWA, and while this won’t be a full con report post, it is a report that we had smashingly good success with the LTE solution. In fact, it was pretty flawless all things considered. The highest speed was 35 Mbps, and as long as nobody wanted to ... Read More

I drove over to the Galleria area yesterday afternoon to conduct preliminary speed tests, and the results are promising. The MR1100 was locked on Band 66 when I left the house, so I tested there once arriving and speeds were around 10 Mbps. Thinking there was room for improvement, I changed the MR1100 to Carrier ... Read More

We’re back! It’s been a while since I posted here, and we’ve had a few changes. First off, I now have AT&T for my mobile phone service! And summarily I am leveraging one of their iPad LTE SIMs for LTE in Internet in a Box now. As the post title implies, I am doing copious ... Read More