Using a Phone Hotspot as a Backup WAN Connection - Home Network Upgrade
In this video I upgrade my home network by adding a failover internet connection. This can be done using a multitude of different LTE/4G/5G modem products, however these would all require me to pay for an additional data plan. Therefore in this video we'll look at a way to use my phone's existing data plan a backup internet connection with only £30 worth of hardware using a MikroTik mAP lite connected to my UniFi UDM-Pro router.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
03:50 - Hardware Introduction
10:01 - Configuring the mAP lite
22:19 - Initial Testing
23:52 - UDM-Pro Configuration
27:44 - Connecting it all up
31:43 - mAP lite PoE Weirdness
35:13 - Completed Installation
36:14 - It works!
40:25 - Conclusion
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