At about midnight last night (a little past), Comcast went down again.
I successfully switched to my mobile hotspot via ddwrt router and was able to get some internet functionality back.
By coincidence this device came in today.
It goes under the name KuWFi 4G LTE USB WiFi Modem Mobile.
When you plug it in, it gives you an RFC 1918 IP address (you can configure this)
From there you can connect to the Internet.
It does appear as an ethernet device in Windows. I am going to try this with Linux, but online reviews said after a while it reverts to a “modeswitch to a GSM modem”. I vaguely recall what that is, but I am going to do more research on it.
For those researching, I basically got a t-mobile SIM, activated it using a normal smart phone (in my case a Pixel Pro 7) then moved the SIM into the device.
The SIM actually goes into the USB portion.
So when you get it plugged in like I said you get an IP address via DHCP, the default gateway is the device and you can connect to it with a browser.
From the browser you can send and receive SMS messages.
We will see though, I am going to connect my Linux box to it and see how it behaves for a few weeks.
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