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Jamesk811
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Sep 04, 2020

RBR50 possibility to add cellular dongle to act as backup

I’m thinking of buying a wifi dongle which has a SIM card inside and plugging it into my rbr50 router to act as a 4G cellular backup for when my wifi drops. Is this possible with this router and what setup steps are required? Thanks heaps in advance

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  • CrimpOn's avatar
    CrimpOn
    Guru
    Sep 04, 2020
    Jamesk811 wrote:
    I’m thinking of buying a wifi dongle which has a SIM card inside and plugging it into my rbr50 router to act as a 4G cellular backup for when my wifi drops. Is this possible with this router and what setup steps are required? Thanks heaps in advance

    Can you give more description about the desired result?

    "When my WiFi drops" indicates that the goal is not to avoid interruption when the primary ISP connection fails.  This is the second most common reason for purchasing an LTE modem/router.  (The most common is when there is no ISP broadband at all and LTE is the only option.)  In that scenario, both the LTE device can be set to "fail over" to LTE if the primary broadband goes out.

     

    Perhaps it would be worth mentioning what "LTE dongle" you have in mind.

  • Mstrbig's avatar
    Mstrbig
    Master
    Sep 04, 2020
    Jamesk811 wrote:
    I’m thinking of buying a wifi dongle which has a SIM card inside and plugging it into my rbr50 router to act as a 4G cellular backup for when my wifi drops. Is this possible with this router and what setup steps are required? Thanks heaps in advance

    If you are thinking about buying it to plug into the RBR50 USB port, it will not work.

    You cold plug the dongle into your PC or laptop USB port and share it with Free WIFI Hotspot or similar software.