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kkapelontoday at 9:42 AM3 repliesview on HN

Using a 4g/5g router is much easier and probably cheaper/power efficient.

Depending on your area you don't even need an external one. A simple 4g dongle would do.


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ycombinetetoday at 10:07 AM

Unifi (which the OP uses) even has dedicated devices for this type of failover: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/29887153953559-UniFi-5...

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zajio1amtoday at 10:09 AM

When here is local power outage and everyone switches to 4g/5g, it is overwhelmed and unusable.

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prism56today at 9:46 AM

Yup, OP is from the UK. In the UK I got a ThreeUK business SIM for £49 that lasted 2 years with 500GB data. It sits in wan failover and manages about 50mbps which is perfect to keep most services running.

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