netgate 2100 tethering phone advice
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Hey there I have a netgate 2100 and soon found out that freeBSD wireless LAN card is not do-able. Hence my next plan is to figure out if I can tether my phone (which has a hotspot) to the USB in netgate 2100 and then propagate to my network.
Are there any gotchas (interface et all) I must watch out. Does this functionality work smoothly - Looking for advice from somebody who have used this functionality as a backup. -
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@netboy Not likely. Your best bet for doing cellular is a device like Netgear's Nighthawk - something with a dataplan and an ETH connection.
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I did this by setting up a bridge device (some access points can be set as bridge (client) mode) and using my MIFI as a hot spot AP..
Linksys used to sell a bridge unit which is what I used back when I did this. Now we have a Mofi in place permanently as our backup when the weather gets wild here.
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@chpalmer MOFI is not supported by Verizon. Off course you can cheat and buy a sim card for tablet but later when IMEI does not match your plan will not work. MOFI is also very expensive. I opted to buy travel router GL-AXT1800 (Slate AX) wifi6 and can be tethered by the phone! On top of it is travel router VPN etc. multiple uses and cost now is around $100 in amazon. This is for "emergency" purposes only. I will tether the phone USB with GL-AXT1800, GL-AXT1800 has 1 WAN port and 2 LAN port. How do I connect the GL-AXT1800 to netgate 2100? or should I connect the 2 LAN ports from GL-AXT1800 to my switches?
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@netboy Mofi works just fine on Verizon.. in fact my last one I took into the store to get it turned on. Ive got both a 4500 and a 5500 9191 and both on the same plan.
Any method that one would use however to get an IP connection out of a carrier would work fine. I simply mentioned MOFI because that is what I use now.
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@chpalmer Thank you for the information. The Verizon chat person told they do not support it and hence my reservation. Nice to know it works.
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@netboy Got my GL-AXT1800 - Tethered my IPhone (verizon) got 40Mbps download! Good enough for me!
I would like to connect my GL-AXT1800 (which is tethered to my iphone) to Netgate 2100 WAN so that all my further connections to the switch need not be altered. how do I do it?
Basically I want the Netgate 2100 WAN to source it from GL-AXT1800.
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@netboy said in netgate 2100 tethering phone advice:
I would like to connect my GL-AXT1800 (which is tethered to my iphone) to Netgate 2100 WAN so that all my further connections to the switch need not be altered. how do I do it?
Plug it into a LAN port on the GL?
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@rcoleman-netgate To be sure I understand...connect one of the LAN ports (GL) to the WAN port in Netgate 2100?
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@netboy Yes.
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@rcoleman-netgate Thank you very much
