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I see a house, why not use the Pi's Wifi instead of a modem?
by mtw 7y ago
I see a house, why not use the Pi's Wifi instead of a modem?
- Scoundreller 7y agoSays it’s their countryside house, so may not have wifi at home. User is somewhere in EU, and data plans can be cheaper than fixed-line connections if you use under 100gb/month. Sometimes faster too.
- konstruktors 7y agoIt does use the built-in WiFi to connect to a WiFi network created by the mobile modem I placed at the neighbours house which has a permanent power supply. I considered using a mobile USB modem attached directly to the Pi but that requires extra effort keeping it connected with something like a cron task that pings 8.8.8.8 and restarts the connection if there is no response.
- mtw 7y agook, that makes sense. I thought it connects to a 3G/LTE network for internet connection. There are a few Raspberry HAT that offers this -- although that would be extremely costly for a live video feed