Re: [LUG] Portable routers

[Giles Coochey <giles@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/03/18 13:37, M. J. Everitt wrote:

On 20/03/18 13:35, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:

On 20 Mar 2018 1:33 pm, "Neil" <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Recently I was at a meeting where there was no internet access available. Then someone turned up with a small router, which we could all use. It turned out to be a portable wifi router. I had never come across them before. I tested it out with my small Linux laptop and it worked just fine.

Anyone in the group know about these please? Any advice and/or comments?

Chances are it was a "MiFi" device - WiFi on one side of the connection and 3G/4G on the other.

Grant.

I have an early one which I have an "Orange" dongle for .. but now I just use WiFi hotspot on my phone.

Of course, Neil wouldn't know anything about that .. :P

MJE

I use a TP-Link M7350. Works pretty well (bit slow on 3G, fast when connected to 4G). The main use I have it is so that my car can get live internet traffic updates on long journeys.

https://www.tp-link.com/uk/products/details/cat-5032_M7350.html

You can also get USB dongles: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/mobile-broadband/e8372/

You can plug these into a Raspberry Pi and get them working (the Pi working as a router), have done this in the past with a E367 (HSPA+,3G only), fun, but limited.

Wifi Hotspot on phones is good, but the M7350 has quite a long battery life, whereas a phone will drain pretty quickly as a hotspot.

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