Showing posts with label WFD8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WFD8. Show all posts

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Cradlepoint as a Backup WAN

I've been skeptical of using cellular as a backup solution, cost being the primary concern.  Cellular data is not exactly cheap.  Yet I found myself in a situation recently where I was working from and had a remote cutover.  Less than an hour before the cutover, my home internet went down.  Now posed with the option of either driving into the office, or finding another internet connection with less than an hour.

I grabbed my IBR1100 that @Cradlepoint gave me from #WFD8.  I pulled the SIM out of my work cell phone and 3D printed an adapter in order to get my SIM into the router.  One I powered the IBR1100 up, it came up and I logged into the interface for the first time.  The interface is simple, the initial setup wizard asks a lot of the right questions to get the device up and running quickly for most of their primary use cases.


Sunday, September 27, 2015

#WFD8 and the ACMA

For those of you who don't know, Aruba has been pretty generous with the TechFieldDay delegates over the last few years. They are a great contributor to the community, even giving away hardware and software at wireless industry events like #WifiTrek and #WLPC. And with #WFD8, we're heading back to Aruba to hear what's new.