Thanks for the great video. I'm looking into using one of those modems as a failover / backup for a fixed fiber line. There are a lot of options out there, but being able to do a direct modem passthrough over ethernet is what makes this one very interesting. I'm running OPNsense as well, this being priced around €100 in Europe makes it a very competitive solution with all the bells and whistles we ask for. Thanks!
You should get tmobiles 5G home internet. $30 a month if you have T-Mobile phone. $50 without. And price lock. And actually is unlimited. You can get 500Mbps and higher even in rural places. I’ve gotten 800Mbps. Down. Up is 100Mbps. And you can attach external antennas to their modem you get that’s free. There are RUclips videos of people demoing this. And the external antennas you need if you don’t live near a tower. But I was 7 miles from a tower with line of sight through trees and was getting 800Mbps. I get 500-600 on my phone on the low band.
Yay more routing^^ Been doing some iBGP to announce public ips on my Kubernetes cluster with MetalLB. VyOS does a great job with that... But it was such a sink hole into ip rules / tables vrfs, L3 networking and BGP. Now that I am somewhat familiar with VyOS I might eventually completely switch my trusty (FreeBSD) Opnsense to it. I especially like the zone based firewalling it's miles ahead the basic fw in pf/opnsense and most fws. It's awesome 🤩
Dude, I love the painters tape! It just needs to be functional especially for the initial testing. Then pole mount it when you are happy with it. Any recommendations for a 5G cellular directional one?
In theory you could get the non-kit version and put your own modem inside, and it should work with higher category LTE modems that are supported by RouterOS
I've never actually used Winbox (I have a mac), but WebFig was not terrible and the CLI was very usable. I'm just using the SXT as a modem though, so actual routing will be done in OPNsense, not RouterOS.
@@apalrdsadventures ah that's a bummer, Those CRS32xxx switches can even do some L3 HW offloading, it's pretty cool to tinker with it! But yeah SwOS is miles ahead in terms of usability... But if you think of the Switch like any other Linux box the bridge workflow makes sense.
I might have to move to RouterOS for an upcoming project where I set VLAN tags dynamically from Home Assisistant (via ssh to the cli), SwOS doesn't have an API. But that's still a few months out at this point.
I wish there was a 5G version of this thing, I am using t-mobile's $50/month option, the speeds are very good where I live, I send 1/2 my traffic through the 5G so its more than just a backup, but the device is a router with wifi etc and I have to double NAT :x
I don't think anything would prevent it from working with Google Fi unless they block hotspot type devices on their end. I got a hotspot-specific plan for this from t-mobile, and I know a lot of carriers limit the device models which can be used with tablet data plans. You basically just have to find towers in your area and make sure they are using one of the bands it supports - 2, 4, 5, 12
Thanks for the great video. I'm looking into using one of those modems as a failover / backup for a fixed fiber line. There are a lot of options out there, but being able to do a direct modem passthrough over ethernet is what makes this one very interesting. I'm running OPNsense as well, this being priced around €100 in Europe makes it a very competitive solution with all the bells and whistles we ask for. Thanks!
Dude this is so informative and awesome. Thanks so much
Glad you like it!
You should get tmobiles 5G home internet. $30 a month if you have T-Mobile phone. $50 without. And price lock. And actually is unlimited. You can get 500Mbps and higher even in rural places. I’ve gotten 800Mbps. Down. Up is 100Mbps. And you can attach external antennas to their modem you get that’s free. There are RUclips videos of people demoing this. And the external antennas you need if you don’t live near a tower. But I was 7 miles from a tower with line of sight through trees and was getting 800Mbps. I get 500-600 on my phone on the low band.
Yay more routing^^ Been doing some iBGP to announce public ips on my Kubernetes cluster with MetalLB. VyOS does a great job with that... But it was such a sink hole into ip rules / tables vrfs, L3 networking and BGP. Now that I am somewhat familiar with VyOS I might eventually completely switch my trusty (FreeBSD) Opnsense to it. I especially like the zone based firewalling it's miles ahead the basic fw in pf/opnsense and most fws. It's awesome 🤩
So far I've been happy with the policy routing on OPNsense as a good balance of having a good GUI (AFAIK VyOS still is CLI/API only?) and working.
@@apalrdsadventures yeah they're working on a GUI but it still is in a state where you don't really want to use it.
That's what I've found, it's a separate project at this point?
@@apalrdsadventures the vycontrol project is community driven, but they do have it on the roadmap to build one .
Yeah, I saw the roadmap plan as well and wasn't sure if vycontrol was at all related to official development.
Dude, I love the painters tape! It just needs to be functional especially for the initial testing. Then pole mount it when you are happy with it. Any recommendations for a 5G cellular directional one?
In theory you could get the non-kit version and put your own modem inside, and it should work with higher category LTE modems that are supported by RouterOS
Does not concern me directly, but still interesting! Thanks!
Glad you watched anyway! I'm still making plenty of Proxmox, thin client, etc. videos
Make sure you do a video on winbox as you tweak it on those, their LTE interface is slick.
I've never actually used Winbox (I have a mac), but WebFig was not terrible and the CLI was very usable. I'm just using the SXT as a modem though, so actual routing will be done in OPNsense, not RouterOS.
@@apalrdsadventures pretty much how I operate too. 10gb mikrotik switch, poe Cisco switch, proxmox, pfsense, truenas :)
I use the CRS328 as both my 10G switch and PoE switch, but I use it with SwOS
@@apalrdsadventures ah that's a bummer, Those CRS32xxx switches can even do some L3 HW offloading, it's pretty cool to tinker with it! But yeah SwOS is miles ahead in terms of usability... But if you think of the Switch like any other Linux box the bridge workflow makes sense.
I might have to move to RouterOS for an upcoming project where I set VLAN tags dynamically from Home Assisistant (via ssh to the cli), SwOS doesn't have an API. But that's still a few months out at this point.
I wish there was a 5G version of this thing, I am using t-mobile's $50/month option, the speeds are very good where I live, I send 1/2 my traffic through the 5G so its more than just a backup, but the device is a router with wifi etc and I have to double NAT :x
Wow that's cool, I didn't know that Meekrotick made these. i'd be curious if these worked with google fi since they use the tmobile network.
I don't think anything would prevent it from working with Google Fi unless they block hotspot type devices on their end. I got a hotspot-specific plan for this from t-mobile, and I know a lot of carriers limit the device models which can be used with tablet data plans.
You basically just have to find towers in your area and make sure they are using one of the bands it supports - 2, 4, 5, 12