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If you have extremely reliable home internet I suppose it's viable, but personally I've found the redundancy of being able to fall back to hotspotted mobile dat
by sellyme 6y ago
If you have extremely reliable home internet I suppose it's viable, but personally I've found the redundancy of being able to fall back to hotspotted mobile data when required extremely important.
- tdeck 6y agoThere's also the matter of using a cell phone as an actual phone.
- boring_twenties 6y agoJust configure the cell phone to use VoIP.
- saagarjha 6y agoIf your carrier supports this, of course.
- Nextgrid 6y agoOr vote with your wallet and switch carriers or use third-party VoIP as your primary number.
- boring_twenties 6y agoI don't think this has anything to do with the carrier? On Android you would just add a SIP account and then set it as the default for outgoing calls.
- cozzyd 6y agoGet a dual sim phone and run your own cell phone network inside your home. (don't actually do this).
- garaetjjte 6y agoCarrier support vary, but you could use VoWiFi.
- pavel_lishin 6y agoWhich is great until your power/internet goes out, and you need to make an emergency call from inside.
- Lammy 6y agoYou can run an external cell antenna through the wall to your hotspot.
- tsimionescu 6y agoWhat is the faraday cage achieving then? Any device in your home can connect to the cell network anyway. Sure, they probably can't connevt to satellite anymore, but I doubt that it is extremely popular.
- boring_twenties 6y agoHuh? Only the antenna, outside the faraday cage, would be able to connect to the cell network. A wire would then connect that antenna to your router.
- tsimionescu 6y agoI thought the purpose was for ypur phone to be able to connect to the cell network, for example for (non-VoIP) calls. But, if your phone can connect, so can any other sim-enabled device.
- silon42 6y agoMaybe you would just have a (fixed) phone outside, forwarding calls/sms/internet to an internal device via fixed line. Wifi hotspot would have a password, so only trusted devices can connect. Maybe Apple devices can already do that?
- boring_twenties 6y agoNo, the comment you replied to seems to be talking about using the cell network as a fallback for Internet access. That's why the stipulated an antenna on the outside of the house.
- tsimionescu 6y ago
- sn41 6y agoYou can always cut off one room without encasing the entire space. Just for occasions when you need the extra safety.
- novok 6y agoYou can put an external mobile modem and make it a failover wan connection. That way you still control the network via your wifi equipment but have that still available.