Sensor Area Networks (SANs)

[DonB]

(06-09-2013 23:21)nedb Wrote:  May be feasible if the MiFi has true router features, but I don't think it does.

I have a longstanding dislike of the MiFi that centers around things like that. In other words, lack of versatility.

For whatever reason, Verizon and the others really like to promote their MiFi devices.

Instead, I have always used an air card, what Verizon calls "USB Modem." I can stick it in a laptop when I'm out and about, although I only occasionally do that. Most of the time it resides in a Cradlepoint MBR-1000 router, with an external antenna plugged into it. With a Cradlepoint I can do all of the normal router things like DMZ, firewall configuration, etc. That includes dyndns, although I've not used that feature in this router.

There is the one-time cost of the Cradlepoint (several years ago for me), but after that the cost for the air card is the same per month as a MiFi.