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I did look at the low-end PepWave offerings but was put off by the pricing, especially when combined with their hosted VPN pricing. I might have misunderstood,
by Nexxxeh 4y ago
I did look at the low-end PepWave offerings but was put off by the pricing, especially when combined with their hosted VPN pricing.
I might have misunderstood, but for the bonding feature without setting up my own VPN server in a datacentre it looked like it would require SpeedFusion Cloud product at $589 for every 20TB I transfer. I'd easily hit that in a year at home.
That's more than my unlimited fixed line, my primary unlimited 4G/5G, my 15GB per month secondary 4G/5G, my 50GB per year emergency backup 4G/5G (on a third cellular network), and Speedify, per year combined.
And if I'm willing to set-up a hosted VPN server, I may as well just set up a local Speedify router instead.
I couldn't see the option for redundancy either, where the same traffic is pumped through both lossy interfaces which is especially useful at the edges for 4G coverage, like when IRL streaming in spotty reception.
I can see PepWave would have its use-cases, especially for businesses that can justify the expense. But for me it was less flexible and orders of magnitude more expensive.
[Edit after sithadmin replied: I think PepWave devices support redundancy as "WAN Smoothing".]
- sithadmin 4y agoTheir hosted VPN (FusionHub) service pricing is indeed quite insane. For my use case, I'm using a pretty minimal amount of bandwidth, so I've just deployed my own FusionHub Solo instance.