Does anyone have any experience with mifi units? I am looking at ways to get internet at remote sites. I was looking at some prepaid units but what I've seen the data you buy is only good for 60-90 days. I'd prefer something like a year or no expiration. I've also read they can be a bear with setting up a port forward. Ideally I'd want to have the allstar and ssh ports opened up. I have also not explored adding a mifi to my current cellular plan. To add to this does anyone have any idea for a test how I could measure bandwidth on one of my nodes for 30 days so I can get a real idea of how much bandwidth we would need to actually purchase. Thank you Bob/N1XBM
Not sure what provider you would be using, as an example: http://cache.vzw.com/multimedia/mim/vzw-4glte-router/vzw-4glte-router-user-m... Port forwarding is rather straight forward - I did try this, not with verizon but using LTE on a local provider... worked alright - I assume your remote sites are mtn. top locations, one thing to consider is most of the time the signal from cell carriers is directed down more then out/up - may not be the most reliable at extreme elevation... vnstat: - looks promising for measuring usage - http://www.binarytides.com/linux-commands-monitor-network/ Mark KC7DMF
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