4G on Pfsense - Will it ever work at the right speed?
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Ahh. Do you even use tunnels on your setup? If so does your Jetpack allow you to configure any kind of VPN tunnel? Or do you get your pfsense to make the connection?
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Ahh. Do you even use tunnels on your setup? If so does your Jetpack allow you to configure any kind of VPN tunnel? Or do you get your pfsense to make the connection?
The pfSense boxes are connecting back to the main office using IPSec.
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Where did you see that the modeswitch will make it detected as 3G only? I'm guessing that was someone using 3G/4G/LTE interchangeably, as in "it's no longer coming up as a storage device, it's now a modem."
I've never had a card that required a modeswitch so not sure. The Verizon UML290 I have works at LTE speeds the same as when plugged directly into a Mac or Windows machine.
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I got around this problem by using a mr3020 with openwrt and bridging it to the wan nic of pfsense.
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@cmb:
Where did you see that the modeswitch will make it detected as 3G only? I'm guessing that was someone using 3G/4G/LTE interchangeably, as in "it's no longer coming up as a storage device, it's now a modem."
I've never had a card that required a modeswitch so not sure. The Verizon UML290 I have works at LTE speeds the same as when plugged directly into a Mac or Windows machine.
Just going from these other topics on this forum.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=49549.msg263609#msg263609https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78304.msg427065#msg427065
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Ahh. Do you even use tunnels on your setup? If so does your Jetpack allow you to configure any kind of VPN tunnel? Or do you get your pfsense to make the connection?
The pfSense boxes are connecting back to the main office using IPSec.
May I ask what sorts of speeds you are able to achieve with that method?
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Ahh. Do you even use tunnels on your setup? If so does your Jetpack allow you to configure any kind of VPN tunnel? Or do you get your pfsense to make the connection?
The pfSense boxes are connecting back to the main office using IPSec.
May I ask what sorts of speeds you are able to achieve with that method?
About 6-8Mbit/s down and 2-3Mbit/s up, but that has more to do with the locations all have the MiFi indoors in metal warehouses or on the first floor in the middle of a multi-floor office building. If you take them outside you get 30-40Mbit/s down and 10-15 Mbit/s up.
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About 6-8Mbit/s down and 2-3Mbit/s up, but that has more to do with the locations all have the MiFi indoors in metal warehouses or on the first floor in the middle of a multi-floor office building. If you take them outside you get 30-40Mbit/s down and 10-15 Mbit/s up.
That sounds pretty good. What variable do you use for the local identifier? I have tried with an User distinguished name but it never seems to work.
Also, what are you connecting back at your main office? Is it pfsense to pfsense? Or pfsense to something else?
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About 6-8Mbit/s down and 2-3Mbit/s up, but that has more to do with the locations all have the MiFi indoors in metal warehouses or on the first floor in the middle of a multi-floor office building. If you take them outside you get 30-40Mbit/s down and 10-15 Mbit/s up.
That sounds pretty good. What variable do you use for the local identifier? I have tried with an User distinguished name but it never seems to work.
Also, what are you connecting back at your main office? Is it pfsense to pfsense? Or pfsense to something else?
IP Address on both ends + PSK.
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About 6-8Mbit/s down and 2-3Mbit/s up, but that has more to do with the locations all have the MiFi indoors in metal warehouses or on the first floor in the middle of a multi-floor office building. If you take them outside you get 30-40Mbit/s down and 10-15 Mbit/s up.
That sounds pretty good. What variable do you use for the local identifier? I have tried with an User distinguished name but it never seems to work.
Also, what are you connecting back at your main office? Is it pfsense to pfsense? Or pfsense to something else?
IP Address on both ends + PSK.
You have a fixed IP on 4G?
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No, it doesn't need to be.