We have a cabin that has no available internet access other than wireless. Even then I hade to put up a tower and yagi to get service. For a number of years we have been using a Cradlepoint MBR1000 and plug one of our phones in as a USB modem when we stay at the cabin so that the families various devices can connect, or so that I can use my laptop wired in.
Until recently that worked fine. Unfortunately a couple of our newer android phones updated their software and now won't connect to the MBR1000. Some of our older phones still do but i was looking for a solution that was also compatible with the newer phones.
I tried the RT-N66U both with Merlins .40 and the very latest ASUS release. In both cases the phones work as USB modems. The problem is that the internet connection is choppy. What I mean by that is the some sites won't load. Some pages will only partially load no matter how many time you try. Most pages take several tries to fully load. It is not a bad cell connection because I can unplug the phone from N66U and plug it into the MBR1000 and all the sites/pages I have trouble with work just fine. When I turn around and plug it back into the N66U browsing is poor and pages hang again.
I suspect it is something to do with handshaking or timeouts with the phone as a USB modem and the N66U WAN connection. Odds are there is nothing I can do about it, but if anyone has had a similar issue and fixed it, I would obviously be interested in anything i could try.
Right now I ended up turing the N66U into an AP and plugging it into the MBR1000 LAN and keeping the MBR1000 as the WAN USB modem connection point. Of course I am stuck with our newer phones not working with the MBR but at least the internet access is fast and smooth and it works. I do need to figure out what to replace the MBR1000 with though.
If I can find a way to get the N66U to work with our phones then great, other wise I need to look for another router that can connect to a phone/USB modem.
So any suggestions for the N66U would be welcome, or alternatively does anyone have any experience with either a MBR95 or a Balance 20 and using a phone as a USB modem? It gets kind of expensive to buy them, try then, and possibly have to return them.
Until recently that worked fine. Unfortunately a couple of our newer android phones updated their software and now won't connect to the MBR1000. Some of our older phones still do but i was looking for a solution that was also compatible with the newer phones.
I tried the RT-N66U both with Merlins .40 and the very latest ASUS release. In both cases the phones work as USB modems. The problem is that the internet connection is choppy. What I mean by that is the some sites won't load. Some pages will only partially load no matter how many time you try. Most pages take several tries to fully load. It is not a bad cell connection because I can unplug the phone from N66U and plug it into the MBR1000 and all the sites/pages I have trouble with work just fine. When I turn around and plug it back into the N66U browsing is poor and pages hang again.
I suspect it is something to do with handshaking or timeouts with the phone as a USB modem and the N66U WAN connection. Odds are there is nothing I can do about it, but if anyone has had a similar issue and fixed it, I would obviously be interested in anything i could try.
Right now I ended up turing the N66U into an AP and plugging it into the MBR1000 LAN and keeping the MBR1000 as the WAN USB modem connection point. Of course I am stuck with our newer phones not working with the MBR but at least the internet access is fast and smooth and it works. I do need to figure out what to replace the MBR1000 with though.
If I can find a way to get the N66U to work with our phones then great, other wise I need to look for another router that can connect to a phone/USB modem.
So any suggestions for the N66U would be welcome, or alternatively does anyone have any experience with either a MBR95 or a Balance 20 and using a phone as a USB modem? It gets kind of expensive to buy them, try then, and possibly have to return them.
