Wireless 4G dongle shared via desktop ?

[danielmTAMS]

Hey guys,

I need to know if it is at all possible to create an ADhoc network between Server and desktop (permanently).

What i want to achieve with this is have a 4G LTE dongle tethered to the server, then have a lan cable from from the server NIC to a switch that will hopefully distribute the internet tethered connection to other devices on the network.

As at the moment we have employed a 3G simcard router (Netcomm 3GWW2v) and it does it all however the internet speeds are terrible,

IF the above doesnt seem to work, can you recommend another solution that will utilize a 4G dongle.

Cheers.

 

[bill001g]

It depends on the dongle and the ISP. Many routers support these, you can look at asus and tplink. One of the oldest vendors to do this is cradlepoint. You can also look at third party firmware running on routers like asus or tplink. Third party firmware tends to have the largest list of supported dongles. Key is to dig thought these lists and find one that matches your dongle and ISP.

You might be able to make your serer act as a router and share it. This function is called ICS and microsoft has excellent instructions for setting ti up. They key nasty problem is some of the ISP have done something to their device drivers and they do not have the sharing option you need to make ICS work. These tend to be the greedy ones that also do not provide information to allow vendors to support their dongles on routers either.....other than the expensive ones the ISP sells themselves.

 

[danielmTAMS]

Cheers, for the response Bill,

I will try this ICS method and see what happens,

Just for information the dongle i have is a netcomm sierra wireless aircard 785s