[188882] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mobile providers in the US for backup access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Apr 20 14:43:38 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <2025019619.2372.1461177300771.JavaMail.mhammett@ThunderFuck>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:42:44 -0500
To: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I had horrible experience when I tried to use Freedom POP many years =
ago.
Their customer service is awful and completely uncooperative. Their =
equipment did not work well
in my environment at all.
I would not wish them on my worst enemy.
Owen
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
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> I'd look at FreedomPOP's Netgear 341U. $20 - $50 NRC, single digit MRC =
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Dovid Bender" <dovid@telecurve.com>=20
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> Subject: Mobile providers in the US for backup access=20
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> A while ago some people mentioned that some US carriers have basic =
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> plans for backup access to their equipment. A few questions:=20
> 1) Do they give you a public IP per connection or do you tunnel back =
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> central location and then connect via the tunnel?=20
> 2) Which carriers offer this and what kind of devices do you use to=20
> connect? Is it simply a GSM card on a "MyFi" like device? We have lots =
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> Pi's out there that we want backup access to.=20
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