Please help me get connected to the internet

[Notconnected]

Hello once again, I am making no progress in regard to connecting my OPNsense
router/firewall to the internet.

I have tried to get my OPNsense box to connect to the internet via my hotspot
which is bridged to my mobile phone, and had no success at all.

I have also connected a USB to WiFi adapter to my phone and connected
the ethernet end of the adapter to the WAN port on my OPNsense box and
have failed to make an internet connection using this method either.

I can connect the hotspot which is bridged to my mobile directly to a
computer and that computer can access the internet.
I can also connect the USB to WiFi adapter to my computer via the ethernet
port and also rech out to the internet.

I truly have no idea why neither device when connected to my OPNsense
box's WAN port will not work.

There are so many settings under >Interfaces >WAN that I do not know where to
start filling in the required details, or even what details are reauired.

Could someone please help me get this to work.

I connected both my USB to WiFi adapter and my Hotspot to my switch
and both allowed the devices connected to the switch to access the
internet, but this is not good as they do not go through the OPNsense
router/firewall.
But even this approach seems to only work sometime, am pretty sure
I do not change the working settings and yet when I try another day
I often can not connect to the internet, not sure why.

I have no wired internet provider where I live, so am stuck with using
a mobile phone bridged to a hotspot which I can plug in via ethernet
cable to the WAN port on the OPNsense box, or similar setup using USB to WiFi adapter.
I attach the switch to the LAN port on the OPNsense box and the other
devices am trying to access the internt with to the WAN port, I assume
this is the correct approach, did I at least get this right.

Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to help.

 

[dave14305]

Linking the same thread at the OPNsense Forum.

Please help me get connected to the internet through my OPNsense router.

Please help me get connected to the internet through my OPNsense router.

forum.opnsense.org

 

[Notconnected]

Linking the same thread at the OPNsense Forum.

Please help me get connected to the internet through my OPNsense router.

Please help me get connected to the internet through my OPNsense router.

forum.opnsense.org

Yes, and still no answers. I could not follow the OPNsense video in regard to setting up the box, as I was just using my phones hotspot at that time, but now that I have the switch installed, and a few devices connected to the switch, and am able to ping them and transfeare files between them, I moved on to the matter of internet access for them, and so far nothing I tried has worked.
I found a few other videos, but they just say put an IP here, what IP, from what range, or is it the IP of another device such as my wired hotspot, nothing is clear as of yet.

 

[degrub]

Very basically, the router WAN IP address needs to be on the same LAN subnet the hotspot is providing to your devices when directly connected.
Then the router LAN devices need to be within the LAN DHCP range you set up in the router if using DHCP or have static addresses outside the same subnet used for the LAN.

 

[Tech9]

Yes, and still no answers.

You get no answers because with your basic networking knowledge helping you with OPNsense via text messages is like explaining Windows in sign language. As I told you before this is an entire OS with hundreds of settings in correct networking terms, different than user-friendly named settings in home routers. Many things you have to do manually, there is no one click presets like in home routers. I can only guess you don't get access to Internet because OPNsense (like pfSense) by default doesn't route private IP addresses on the WAN interface. You are perhaps in double NAT.

I also don't know why your access to Internet is on a cell phone. Virtually all mobile operators offer Internet access options for remote areas with 4G/5G gateways. It's a small separate device with SIM card inside and Ethernet ports. No need to use any USB-to-Ethernet dongles or cell phones. Most mobile operators provide the device for free with some service contract.