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Good LTE/5G dongle for Linux? (self.linux)

submitted 5 months ago by ikidd to c/[email protected]

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I need a few of these for rpi's around the farm. Tired of dealing with LoRa.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

My carrier is Google Fi

one perk is that they will give you free data-only sims (up to 10 I think?) and you just pay for the data you use like any other data. I have used old Android phones in USB tether mode this way, and it works just fine. So, rpi+old/cheap phone should do the trick.

One fun bonus is that if you tether over USB it will work as a WiFi dongle, too

the failover from WiFi to cell should happen on the phone, transparently iirc. Not sure if that affects you.

Caveat is that I did this a while ago, and their pricing structure may have changed. Finished to be a great deal but has slowly become another carrier with not much to differentiate it...