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    Recommendation for 4G/LTE Modem Router

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      Balanga
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      Can anyone recommend a 4G/LTE Modem Router for use with pfSense?

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        NollipfSense @Balanga
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        @balanga I had been looking at Huawei's 5G, and waiting for the price drop (we would have had it if the passed idiot in charge wouldn't have started a trade war nonsense and huge tariff). Meanwhile, I am looking at their 4G/LTE version but might wait for 5G.

        pfSense+ 23.09 Lenovo Thinkcentre M93P SFF Quadcore i7 dual Raid-ZFS 128GB-SSD 32GB-RAM PCI-Intel i350-t4 NIC, -Intel QAT 8950.
        pfSense+ 23.09 VM-Proxmox, Dell Precision Xeon-W2155 Nvme 500GB-ZFS 128GB-RAM PCIe-Intel i350-t4, Intel QAT-8950, P-cloud.

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          gabacho4 Rebel Alliance @Balanga
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          @balanga I use a Mikrotik LTaP LTE6 and have had great success with it. Get great speeds even while routing all my network traffic over a Wireguard VPN connection to New York from the Middle East. Before anyone gasps, I'm not running the Wireguard that was included in pfsense 21.02. LTaP is a very capable device, can be put into passthrough mode, and has an agreeable price as well.

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            It seems like we have been down this road several times before @Balanga.

            The advice is still the same. Use an external 3G/4G Ethernet connected modem for best speed and least hassle. For example the Netgear LB1120 has good reports here.

            Steve

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              Balanga @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10

              Thechnologies change so I thought there may be something new which everyone was jumping on.

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                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                Unfortunately still no MBIM or QMI support for directly connected modems so an external Ethernet connected device is the generally the best choice.

                Steve

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