Hi, I'm trying to build a set-up for my girlfriend. She's a film producer and moves between studios with a wireless fibre optic internet connection and the field a lot. I want to put a network laser printer in a flight case with a wireless repeater that can easily be reconfigured to share a studios wireless connection (thus still giving access to the printer for her and her team) but that also has a 4g modem that it automatically switches to when no wireless network is configured / available to repeat.
The. Upshot being that everyone connects to the network in order to share files and access the printer, if at a studio she can input the details to the router for the local wifi connection to repeat, but if on location it defaults to a 4g connection.
Anyone have any ideas on the ideal networking hardware? The set-up of network details to repeat needs to be fairly simple and should ideally automatically switch over to 4g when unavailable. I know the simple solution is to forget the wireless repeating aspect and just build a case with printer and 4g router, but this would mean either using the slower 4g connection even when fibre optic wifi available or not having access to the printer, or switching wifi networks constantly.
Any ideas on what hardware to buy much appreciated!
The. Upshot being that everyone connects to the network in order to share files and access the printer, if at a studio she can input the details to the router for the local wifi connection to repeat, but if on location it defaults to a 4g connection.
Anyone have any ideas on the ideal networking hardware? The set-up of network details to repeat needs to be fairly simple and should ideally automatically switch over to 4g when unavailable. I know the simple solution is to forget the wireless repeating aspect and just build a case with printer and 4g router, but this would mean either using the slower 4g connection even when fibre optic wifi available or not having access to the printer, or switching wifi networks constantly.
Any ideas on what hardware to buy much appreciated!