Please help me get connected to the internet through my OPNsense router.

[TrafficChaos]

Hello once again, I am making no progress in regard to connecting my OPNsense
router/firewall to the internet.

I have tried to get my OPNsense box to connect to the internet via my hotspot
which is bridged to my mobile phone, and had no success at all.

I have also connected a USB to WiFi adapter to my phone and connected
the ethernet end of the adapter to the WAN port on my OPNsense box and
have failed to make an internet connection using this method either.

I can connect the hotspot which is bridged to my mobile directly to a
computer and that computer can access the internet.
I can also connect the USB to WiFi adapter to my computer and also
rech out to the internet.

I truly have no idea why neither device when connected to my OPNsense
box's WAN port will not work.

There are so many settings under >Interfaces >WAN that I do not know wher to
start filling in the required details, or even what details are reauired.

Could someone please help me get this to work.

I connected both my USB to WiFi adapter and my Hotspot to my switch
and both allowed the devices connected to the switch to access the
internet, but this is not good as they do not go through the OPNsense
router/firewall.
But even this approach seems to only work sometimes.

I have no wired internet provider where I live, so am stuck with using
a mobile phone bridged to a hotspot which I can plug in via ethernet
cable to the OPNsense box, or similar setup using USB to WiFi adapter.
I  attach the switch to the lan port on the OPNsense box and the other
devices am trying to access the internt with to the WAN port, I assume
this is the correct approach, did I at least get this right.

Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to help.

[viragomann]

I have also connected a USB to WiFi adapter to my phone and connected
the ethernet end of the adapter to the WAN

Are you sure, you have connected it to the correct network port?

Which hardware did you install OPNsense on?

In nterfaces: Assignments open the drop-down next to WAN and check if the plug symbol is green.

If you want to use the USB adapter on OPNsense, you have to change the network device here to ue1 or alike and save the setting.

[nero355]

I have no wired internet provider where I live, so am stuck with using
a mobile phone bridged to a hotspot which I can plug in via ethernet

Why not plug a USB LTE Modem into your OPNsense ?!

Lowers the chance of conflicting IP subnet addressing too!

See :
- https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/interfaces.html#mobile-networking
- https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/cellular.html

[TrafficChaos]

I have also connected a USB to WiFi adapter to my phone and connected
the ethernet end of the adapter to the WAN

Are you sure, you have connected it to the correct network port?

Which hardware did you install OPNsense on?

In nterfaces: Assignments open the drop-down next to WAN and check if the plug symbol is green.

If you want to use the USB adapter on OPNsense, you have to change the network device here to ue1 or alike and save the setting.

Hi, yes I used the default port layout during install, the first port is igc0 which is LAN,
igc1 is my WAN port where I plug in my hotspot which is bridged to my phone.

I have actually got my USB to RJ45 adapter to work from the OPNsense WAN port.
I  am using a Mini PC with 4 2.5Gig ports, it is base on an intel N100, with 16Gb Memory
and 128Gb SSD.
Where is this setting you mention / If you want to use the USB adapter on OPNsense, you have to change the network device here to ue1 or alike and save the setting, Thanks.

I have not had time to try my hotspot in that port, that hot spot is bridged to
my phone for internet access and works fine when connected to a switch or computer directly.
The usb to RJ4 adapter I use has an AX88179A chipset, it is no longer available on Amazon
but therre is still one model that does have this same chipset listed.

My issues now is that I have set up secure dns in unbound settings, and I see the dns server
address being accessed under the traffic tab, but my browsers is not using secure dns when I
use online tools to check what dns am using.
There is one tick at the top of the unbound page where I entered the secure dns servers,
I am not sure if it needs ticked or left unticked, it states from memory, use system dns
servers, I am not sure what system dns servers refferes to, is it the servers I just set
up under unbound secure dns, or the servers one can set up during OPNsense install, I actually
did not install and dns servers during OPNsense install.
Either way any advise on how to ensure my secure dns servers under unbound are in fact used
would be appreciated.
If I recall/ am not at my home now, but there is a setting somewhere else that states something
like, allow dns to be over ridden by service providers dns, if so, then should this unticked in
order to force the use of my unbound secure dns server entries.

Thanks to all

[TrafficChaos]

@nero355 I don't want to pay for a second service.
I ordered a phone line, it was installed, I asked during
the orer process if the line would be able to handle internet
when I would research the best provider in my area and was told yes.
I ordered interent, a month later no box from the provider arrived,
I asked them why, and was old my line needed upgraded.

I cancelled my contract with the phone company as they would not upgrade it,
they said they made a mistake when they said it was fine for internet useage.
It quite clearly was not, it was an old line from when the property was built
40 years ago, they should have known fine will it was long overdue an upgrade.

So, am stuck with a mobile phone for internet, which is fine as am the only user
and have unlimitd data plan.