I have active deployments of a Mikrotik RB2011 and the Vodafone R205 hotspot, This allows you to have the 3g modem in a more suitable position and have a unit in the rack. Big bonus is onsite tech's can get net access easy as On 31 January 2015 at 15:34, Darren Moss wrote:

Hi All,

We have a bunch of regional sites (weather probes) that run some equipment, 2 PCs and are connected to the internet.

At the moment it's dongle city which I would like to change over to something a little better :)

I am looking for suggestions on a decent (business grade) router with 3G capability an external antenna connection.

At each site, the equipment sits in a rack, inside a hut and signal strength is reasonable (3/5).

My thinking is to deploy a basic Cisco router with a 3G WIC then an external antenna on the same mast where we collect weather data.

Happy to hear suggestions and input.

Many thanks

Darren.

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Hey Darren Opengear make some really nice stuff which would be ideal for your requirements. A bunch of serial, ethernet, USB, and 3/4g interfaces that you can configure to do whatever. http://opengear.com/products/acm5000-remote-site-manager Regards, Tim Price Initech Consulting Ltd

On 31/01/2015, at 3:34 pm, Darren Moss wrote:

Hi All,

We have a bunch of regional sites (weather probes) that run some equipment, 2 PCs and are connected to the internet.

At the moment it's dongle city which I would like to change over to something a little better :)

I am looking for suggestions on a decent (business grade) router with 3G capability an external antenna connection.

At each site, the equipment sits in a rack, inside a hut and signal strength is reasonable (3/5).

My thinking is to deploy a basic Cisco router with a 3G WIC then an external antenna on the same mast where we collect weather data.

Happy to hear suggestions and input.

Many thanks

Darren. _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog