@scottalanmiller said in Cellular backup options:

@AdamF said in Cellular backup options:

@dbeato said in Cellular backup options:

@AdamF said in Cellular backup options:

@scottalanmiller Yeah, Our team, when working from home, likes to RDP into their PCs at the office. They use either traditional VPN, or Zerotier. Some of them claim to have issues with Zerotier, claiming it is "slow" for them. I never use traditional VPN anymore and I only use Zerotier if I have to RDP to anything at the office. I never experience slowness of any kind with Zerotier.

Yeah, change is "hard" 🙂

🙂 Zerotier is was such a game changer for us. Remember the old MPLS / pay a fortune days? DO NOT miss those.

I've never had to deal with that. We had better options than MPLS before MPLS hit the market. Even by 2000 we had ways to handle that stuff well without MPLS.

Yeah I only dealt with MPLS in a larger global company I worked for previously. They spend SOOO much money on AT&T managed WAN connections. Like insane amounts of money.

I know this is the "don't do this but do something else" answer, but just in case you've not thought of it, some places use satellite phones for this purpose.

@JaredBusch said in Google Fi:

@Dashrender said in Google Fi:

While I'm sure T-Mobile is working on it.. when I tested T 2 years ago in Nebraska... only the major arteries of the city had access, and horrible access at that. I technically live outside the city limits by less than 1/4 mile, but other than AT&T, all other carriers service sucks at best and generally don't work.

While true, at least with TMobile you have excellent WiFi calling at home.

Or in offices that are often shielded.

@coliver Not as far fetched as it seems. Biggest issues are the security of remote links.

@JaredBusch said:

WiFi calling is a big deal. The you obviously have no need to have service in areas outside of tower range.

FTFY 😉

I do need service in areas outside of tower range but that's well away from the range of WiFi. I will admit though that I've been fortunate enough to never need WiFi calling as everywhere I've worked and lived has had great mobile reception.

@Dashrender said:

I've never used Verizon as my own service, mainly because their price is significantly higher than the rest. But I had to give up my cheaper Sprint plan for something that actually worked! Moving to AT&T was cheaper than Verizon, because of GSM compatible with most European carriers and therefore roam-able, and worked well in my home (Verizon, like Sprint does not work in my house).

Thats why I like TMobile. Uses any GSM towers that it can, included AT&T and whatever is local in the country that you are in. And at home it always works because they have full WiFi calling. So I never have to worry about it at my home, any family member's homes or other places that I go regularly.