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AdamH

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Re: 4G again
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2019, 02:05:11 PM »
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2019, 07:37:23 PM »
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2019, 11:43:45 PM »
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2019, 11:44:17 PM »
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2019, 06:15:37 AM »
AdamH, welcome to the forum, two very informative posts, keep us updated with how it goes especially if you get an external antenna.
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2019, 12:56:03 PM »
I would go for it Weaver, ignore my TBB comment for 2 reasons.

1 - It was based on Three's previous attempt at this "years ago".
2 - It was based on inner city performance, your location is very different, and Three issues seemed to be based on Cities not rural.

Also everyone on TBB who has used it so far is happy.

Plus I dont think you necessarily need an aerial either, I get great 4G in my bed etc. indoors.

I am glad you finally considering this as I think it will be better than your current setup, I am amazed with long adsl lines you were at one point averaging less than one fault per year I consider that an extraordinary run of luck, my experience on a 50db loop loss ADSL service was a mess reliability wise.
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2019, 06:33:39 PM »
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2019, 10:45:35 PM »
Why are you looking for PPP support? 

Any 4G router (assuming it has an ethernet port) should work fine - you just need an ipv4 connection to route your L2TP tunnel to A&A over (a few layers of NAT shouldn't affect it).  No need for modems and PPP - you just give the Firebrick an address on your 4G router's LAN and use that for the outgoing L2TP tunnel.
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #23 on: January 26, 2019, 12:02:26 AM »
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #24 on: January 26, 2019, 12:40:16 AM »
ICMP pings should work without PPP, without the additional overhead and processing.

It's only a PPP LCP echo on PPP
LCP echo works on IPoE?
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Re: 4G again
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Re: 4G again
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2019, 10:35:14 PM »
I'd highly recommend trying 3G/4G, perhaps in addition to a 'normal' broadband connection.

We live about a mile from the local town and had been stuck with poor (ECI-based) VDSL, with 10M download and a meagre 0.5M upload - but some of my kids wanted to do online gaming, which would be impossible with that setup (as anyone just sending an email with a photo would have literally 'killed them' mid-game).  So a few years ago I put a Huawei B593s-22 in the loft and got a good 4 bar (out of 5) 4G signal from EE.  I got my Draytek 2860 to divert their connection to the 4G modem, whilst everyone else's went via VDSL.  The SIM only had 64GB per month, which was just about enough for their gaming use.

More recently (6 months ago), I put a Three all-you-can-eat SIM into the Huawei and added a directional LTE antenna (Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0002 from Amazon) in the loft (the roof is tiled with slate).  I needed the antenna so that I could choose which Three mast I was connecting to, as I had two locally: the closer one was right near a load of houses and the download rate would often drop below 4Mbps (although upload was always around 30Mbps); and the other was further away but by a motorway and always had excellent up & download speeds (30Mbps for both).  Both gave 3 to 4 bars, but that bore no relation to the data throughput!

Technically I should only use a mobile phone with that SIM, but I'll only be doing this for another few months whilst FTTPoD gets installed - all paid for and currently waiting for some more BT survey work to do with the ducting.

So, yes, get a Huawei modem/router.  Mine had built-in WiFi but I rarely used it - but if your house isn't too big it may be all you need.
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2019, 11:53:49 PM »
Quote from: rpdmallett on January 26, 2019, 10:35:14 PM
Technically I should only use a mobile phone with that SIM, but I'll only be doing this for another few months whilst FTTPoD gets installed - all paid for and currently waiting for some more BT survey work to do with the ducting.

Apparently, due to a recent Ofcom ruling (due, ironically, to EU regulations!), Three (and presumably other Mobile Networks ?) can no longer restrict what you use your SIM for - see: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/bulletins/competition-bulletins/all-closed-cases/cw_01218

The pertinent quote from that article is: "withdrawn restrictions on the use of handset SIMs in dongles and mifis" ("handset" refers to "phones", and "dongles and mifis" are taken to include "4G Routers").

So - you are within your rights to use any SIM card in a 4G router! So, don't worry about doing that!  :)
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Re: 4G again
« Reply #29 on: January 27, 2019, 08:27:54 AM »
« Last Edit: January 27, 2019, 09:18:17 AM by Ronski »
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