List 4G/5G LTE Adapters for OPNSense?

Started by Dowd, November 02, 2021, 12:37:53 AM

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Is there a list for this?

I have Verizon for my current WAN connection, I am hoping to sign up for a 4G/5G LTE service in my area and use that for failover in the event of the internet lines going down.

Any advise on hardware for this would be appreciated.

November 02, 2021, 09:55:41 AM #1 Last Edit: November 02, 2021, 12:05:14 PM by benyamin
I use a NETGEAR LB2120 and a "spare" ethernet port on the firewall.

You could setup your WAN with an additional tagged VLAN (perhaps labelled WAN-4G) and trunk the two into a perimeter switch and then break out the VLANs to bastion hosts and ISP routers as necessary.

It does have an in-built router but I use mine in bridge mode.

I like how it's all ethernet. It works well in a gateway group and OPNsense works well at directing traffic to particular gateways as needed.

It's showing it's age now though, I had to tape the last nano SIM into a micro cut-out. It might also have gigabit ports but it's maximum theoretical speed is 150Mbps.

NETGEAR have other options now too, such as the MR2100 with up to 2Gbps, but perhaps somewhat overkill with dual-band Wi-Fi and the works such as a colour touch screen, etc.

I'm sure there are a number of other players out there as well.