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Query, since you appear to be heavily involved: I am looking to buy a used/cheap phone to replace our home wifi hotspot(a very tired Moto G4 + LineageOS, always
by tunap 5y ago
Query, since you appear to be heavily involved:
I am looking to buy a used/cheap phone to replace our home wifi hotspot(a very tired Moto G4 + LineageOS, always plugged to power). No calls or texts required, just handling up to 5 device connections to the inet(music streaming, video downloads, web browsing). Having a new linux toy to tinker with would be a bonus, would love to support Pine64, but the inet reliability would need to be there as it is our only connection... extreme rural locale, no landline or line-of-site options available, Starlink is not yet an option, AFAIK, and def outside the budget.
In your opinion, would a PinePhone be a realistic candidate for our hotspot at this time?
- MartijnBraam 5y agoA PinePhone would work fine for that I think. It's also possible to use any MSM8916 phone together with postmarketOS to do that kind of thing, the G4 is not supported on mainline in postmarketOS yet sadly, only the G4 Play. I would recommend to use usb tethering though instead of wifi tethering. Just get a router that has an USB port that supports a modem and use that with a phone.
- ppcar 5y agoNote that the Pinephone only supports 2.4GHz, not 5GHz.