[RE-wrenches] advice on cellular modem brands

[Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar]

The Conext gateway is wifi and the whole conext power system is Wifi
accessible. I guess the question really is to me, when will Outback do
this?
I use both and do like having both wired ethernet and wifi. Just more
redundancy offgrid.

Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
"we go where powerlines don't"
http://members.sti.net/offgridsolar/
e-mail offgridsolar at sti.net
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 06:42:07 -0500, James Jefferson Jarvis
<jj at aprsworld.com> wrote:
> The non-consumer grade units will have wired ethernet ports. My favorite

> is the Sierra Wireless RV50X. It is rock solid stable and uses less than

> 1 watt of power.
> 
>
https://www.sierrawireless.com/products-and-solutions/routers-gateways/rv50/
> 
> The problem I have run into with the JetPacks and the like is that they 
> are consumer orientated and expect to have somebody there to poke and 
> prod them when required. I had a 450 mile service trip to an island so I

> could press "okay" on the screen to acknowledge that it had updated. 
> Then it returned back to normal service. For another customer, a cell 
> phone company at their cell tower, they suggested that we hard cycle the

> power every 24 hours to prevent crashes.
> 
> Why don't OEMs include WiFi? It's a support nightmare. You either need 
> another screen on the device just to setup WiFi or you need convoluted 
> instructions and apps for both iPhone and Android. And then it works 
> fine until somebody changes the wireless credentials and then its back 
> to the convoluted setup again.
> 
> -James Jarvis
> APRS World, LLC
> 
> 
> On 4/11/20 3:08 PM, Kirk Herander wrote:
>> Just did the exact same thing using a Verizion Jetpack. Works quite
well 
>> transmitting both Mate3s and Blue Ion egauge data simultaneously. 
>> Trouble is it does not have a LAN port, wifi only, so I had to use a 
>> Netgear wall repeater with  a port, along with an ethernet switch to 
>> plug everything into.
>> 
>> And I could use any pointers on how to create the LAN port with less 
>> hassle. I don't know of any Verizon-compatible modem with a built-in
LAN 
>> port.
>> Also why doesn't the Mate3s and other OEMs use wifi in their products? 
>> Very few do. It is 2020 after all.
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