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[1677.62 --> 1685.44] And so in the meantime, what we're thinking of doing is getting a couple of different providers to kind of figure out if that would improve his situation. |
[1685.70 --> 1694.54] Is there, you know, what should he be looking at for these kind of mobile internet type on the server side anyway, not necessarily the carrier stuff? |
[1694.98 --> 1695.24] Yeah, yeah. |
[1695.40 --> 1700.72] I'll tell you, I think probably the number one important thing is the antenna on the roof outside of the building. |
[1700.72 --> 1703.24] That makes such a huge difference. |
[1703.42 --> 1710.16] And then the other thing to kind of look for is you have different categories of modems and antennas. |
[1710.22 --> 1714.40] So you have like a CAT 12 modem and a CAT 16 modem. |
[1714.56 --> 1720.84] And essentially, the bigger the number, the faster it is, the more connections it can do to the tower, that kind of stuff. |
[1720.84 --> 1732.36] So that's what you want, right, is you want an antenna and you want a LTE device, like a router or a MiFi device that can take advantage of that. |
[1732.80 --> 1734.32] And so that's what I had to end up doing. |
[1734.44 --> 1739.00] I got something from a company called PepWave, or it's a PepLink. |
[1739.16 --> 1739.42] I'm sorry. |
[1740.24 --> 1742.12] Yeah, it's PepWave is the – anyways. |
[1742.12 --> 1751.14] And this is built for a mobile setup, but they have setups for residents and buildings as well. |
[1751.84 --> 1758.32] And they have, with that, a VPN service that does a bonded connection. |
[1758.96 --> 1762.14] And you can do this on your own if you're really good. |
[1763.28 --> 1768.80] Wes and I did build one on a Raspberry Pi and tested it for a bit, and it worked. |
[1768.80 --> 1772.90] And we bonded two connections out to Linode, and it worked. |
[1773.58 --> 1780.40] But the thing about the vendor solution is it works in conjunction with software on the router. |
[1780.74 --> 1782.18] It's aware of packet loss. |
[1782.36 --> 1786.64] It is very intelligent about what it sends over which VPN and which connection. |
[1787.02 --> 1789.28] And it overall just does a better job managing it. |
[1790.16 --> 1792.26] So you can kind of stack this stuff. |
[1792.44 --> 1795.10] So, you know, tier one, antenna and a modem. |
[1795.10 --> 1799.18] And then tier two is what you bring that into. |
[1799.78 --> 1802.42] Is it coming into just a little crappy Wi-Fi box? |
[1802.48 --> 1804.86] It's then doing Wi-Fi right there off that box? |
[1804.90 --> 1807.22] Because you're going to have a really limited Wi-Fi setup. |
[1807.28 --> 1811.72] So that's something that can happen is people can get a little Wi-Fi device, and then they go to use that. |
[1811.78 --> 1814.74] Well, those things suck when you get more than a couple of devices connected to them. |
[1814.96 --> 1817.04] And their range is only a couple of hundred feet. |
[1817.64 --> 1821.94] So he's got this Speedify article, which he found on TechRadar UK. |
[1822.52 --> 1824.86] It sounds like it does a similar thing. |
[1824.86 --> 1827.34] It bonds a few connections together over a VPN. |
[1827.98 --> 1837.84] And my initial reaction when he suggested that was, I remember back in my college days, I had a few cable modems that had some questionable firmware on them. |
[1838.02 --> 1843.28] And I ran those things into a PFSense setup to get free internet when I was a student. |
[1844.22 --> 1847.78] And I remember, you know, back then the internet was obviously a lot less sophisticated. |
[1847.78 --> 1853.64] But I just remember bouncing from one modem to the next and being logged out of websites all the time. |
[1853.68 --> 1855.12] And it was just super annoying. |
[1855.26 --> 1857.38] Is that kind of stuff still a problem today? |
[1858.08 --> 1859.54] Not with the right solution. |
[1859.70 --> 1866.10] That is getting better and better because the endpoint that you bond into, that's the connection that goes out to the website. |
[1866.10 --> 1867.74] So that IP doesn't change. |
[1868.08 --> 1875.54] But like with the Speedify setup, you know, what I don't like about it is they'll give you a couple of gigs for free. |
[1875.68 --> 1878.30] And then after that, you got to start paying. |
[1878.62 --> 1886.38] You know, you watch a Netflix movie, a single Netflix movie, maybe even half the Netflix movie before you've used up what you get for free. |
[1886.38 --> 1889.00] Well, I mean, the amount of videos I send him of his granddaughter. |
[1889.64 --> 1889.88] I mean. |
[1890.04 --> 1890.38] Right. |
[1890.62 --> 1898.56] Well, and you're going to the trouble of paying for an unlimited LTE connection and then getting all of this hardware and then, you know, this kind of stuff. |
[1898.62 --> 1900.68] It just doesn't, to me, it doesn't make sense so much. |
[1900.76 --> 1902.94] I do appreciate that it's more approachable. |
[1903.48 --> 1908.94] In the US, I'll link to some bundles people can get that just kind of bundles all the hardware and software together. |
[1909.16 --> 1910.28] It's a little trickier out there. |
[1910.34 --> 1914.70] But I think really what I'd start small and see what your dad's comfortable with. |
[1914.70 --> 1920.00] Like, you can even get MiFi devices that have small antennas that you can connect to them. |
[1920.50 --> 1924.14] And you can just mount the antenna to the window facing the cellular tower. |
[1924.28 --> 1926.08] And the little antenna has a section cup. |
[1926.16 --> 1927.10] It's a flat little antenna. |
[1927.40 --> 1933.50] And that can actually make a significant improvement because it's, what is it called, Alex? |
[1933.50 --> 1939.64] It's like the Richter scale where an improvement in dB in cellular reception is like a significant improvement. |
[1939.74 --> 1943.34] So like a 1 dB increase is a significant increase in signal. |
[1943.34 --> 1945.20] Yeah, the logarithmic scale. |
[1945.66 --> 1945.82] That. |
[1946.70 --> 1952.44] And so even just getting up a couple of dBs can make a huge performance difference and latency difference. |
[1953.04 --> 1961.08] And so just starting like with that, if you just got a MiFi and an antenna, like Netgear makes one, that mounts to the window, he'd be all right. |
[1961.22 --> 1967.80] But even better, obviously, as you know, would be an antenna on the roof, maybe on a pole that's above the roof line. |
[1967.80 --> 1969.84] Yeah, that is the way to go. |
[1969.84 --> 1975.88] So what I'm worried about with this EE solution in particular is they supply the modem. |
[1976.48 --> 1980.66] And ISP provided modems are notoriously crappy. |
[1981.20 --> 1981.40] Yeah. |
[1981.66 --> 1983.40] And you can't run WireGuard on them. |
[1983.62 --> 1988.64] And you can't do a whole bunch of port forwarding stuff, which I find very useful when we're doing remote management. |
[1988.98 --> 1993.20] And if I have a backup server there, yeah, I'm a little bit worried about. |
[1993.20 --> 1998.18] Will it be one of those things where you could take the SIM card out and put it in a nicer piece of hardware? |
[1998.98 --> 2001.02] I need to do some more research. |
[2001.14 --> 2004.94] Now, if you're in the UK and you know the answer to that question, I would love to hear from you. |
[2005.36 --> 2010.98] If you've replaced the EE router with something else as well, I would love to know what you've replaced it with and how it works. |
[2011.24 --> 2018.94] Because ultimately, I would love to get to a situation where the WAN connection isn't really very important. |
[2018.94 --> 2025.90] You know, so that way when Starlink does become available, we can just plug my dad into the OpenSense that's running in the house. |
[2026.08 --> 2029.26] And it's just another WAN connection that we load balance or something like that. |
[2029.48 --> 2035.10] So, yeah, if you know the answer or if you've done anything similar, please get in touch at selfhosted.show slash contact. |
[2035.76 --> 2039.30] Yeah, you have a little mini DV tape follow-up for people who don't recall. |
[2039.48 --> 2043.34] Alex ended up getting his hands on some DV tapes that he wanted to import. |
[2043.58 --> 2046.08] And you put the call out there for some hardware. |
[2046.08 --> 2050.20] But I guess it was a little more complicated than we remembered things being. |
[2050.48 --> 2053.06] It turns out 90s tech sucked worse than we remembered. |
[2053.88 --> 2059.30] I have in my hands a Canon Vixia HV40. |
[2059.70 --> 2061.18] I have one of those in the studio. |
[2061.66 --> 2064.74] If you don't want that, send it to me because mine died and I got to replace it. |
[2064.76 --> 2065.84] And then I could do video in the studio. |
[2066.24 --> 2070.10] I think this thing was the Rolls-Royce of camcorders back in the day. |
[2070.22 --> 2071.66] It has an HDMI out on it. |
[2072.02 --> 2072.18] Yeah. |
[2072.42 --> 2072.72] Oh, I know. |
[2072.76 --> 2073.86] I used to have two of them. |
[2073.86 --> 2075.28] But now they've both slowly died on me. |
[2076.08 --> 2080.82] So I met up with a listener who actually lives 10 minutes from my house. |
[2081.24 --> 2085.34] He heard the episode last, a couple of weeks ago, and messaged me and said, |
[2085.42 --> 2087.24] Hey, Alex, I've got a mini DV camcorder. |
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