Data Only Prepaid Plans? LTE

Devices & Integrations
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That would be great if you can share that script. Still trying to come up with a way of checking if regular internet is functional.

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$wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$ov = $wc.DownloadString("http://myexternalip.com/raw")

$From = "YourEmail@gmail.com"
$To = "AnotherEmail@YourDomain.com"
$Cc = "YourBoss@YourDomain.com"
$Attachment = "C:\temp\Some random file.txt"
$Subject = "Email Subject"
$Body = "Insert body text here"
$SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com"
$SMTPPort = "587"


if($ov -match "**********")
{

##Launch program## Start-Process -FilePath "C:"

 Send-MailMessage -From $From -to $To -Cc $Cc -Subject $Subject `
-Body $Body -SmtpServer $SMTPServer -port $SMTPPort -UseSsl `
-Credential (Get-Credential) -Attachments $Attachment
}
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Great deal on FreedomPop LET wifi modem. 1GB data for free each month, no credit card required, the only downside is the 4-8week lead time. I have purchased several from this seller before.

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This is wifi only, right? Cannot be used for usb tether with an asus router?

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I’d highly recommend this:

This:

Or this, depending on your needs:

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Correct. I haven’t found a Freedompop device that works via usb with my Asus router yet.

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Thanks! I think I have a rough idea on how to go about this, the powershell script might not be even needed but I have to use a pi I already use for vlc thing. The basics go like this… using the site uptimerobot.com, I can monitor my dnydns ip address that is pointing to a webserver running on the pi, it will report down or up status depending on the option you choose by email and then create automation based on that.

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I take it back, you can do source (policy) based routing on the USG/ER lines:

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In case anyone is wondering, I got my first ting bill today. I’ll admit the amount of tax you pay is based on the state you live in. However, where I am $14.33 for 45MB of usage is too much. I’m looking for a cheap failover for home automation, this isn’t it.

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I got in on a T-Mobile deal with three lines for $100 (all taxes and everything included). I use one line, my GF moved her T-Mobile line to the 2nd one and the 3rd one I use for my LTE Modem as a WAN failover.

It’s unlimited data but I wasn’t sure if T-Mobile would properly see it as ‘hotspot’ data or not, if it did, I would be limited to LTE for the first 10GB and then it drops down too low to be usable but 10GB would be plenty enough for WAN failover anyway.

Long story short I actually set it as my primary WAN connection until I hit 77GB of usage when I finally got a message from T-Mobile saying that I had used “80% of my hotspot usage”. At $33.33/mo it’s perfect, I can also use it to send text messages from servers as well.

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Not unfortunately my job provides me a phone. Wife uses straight talk. All in for me is $42.

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Mytimewireless, ten bucks for 100MB, not as cheap as you want probably but I think they had a cheaper plan too.

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Anyone do a fall over to freedom pop on the smart things system?

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I have an Asus router that supports dual WANs and I use freedompop as my secondary WAN. I also use a second FP wifi hotspot as the main connection for my alarm system. 1gb/month for free per device.

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I want the ability to just backup SmartThings with freedompop since my Nest Cam will eat all the bandwidth if network goes down

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Yeah thats an issue Im still dealing with… A more expensive layer 2 router/switch is what we need but in the mean time I have just isolated the asus router and ST hub. The primary WAN for the Asus router is plugged into the LAN of my primary router, freedom pop plugged into the secondary wan as a failover.

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The Ubiquiti ERL/USG support source based routing though you have to be quite technical to understand what you’re doing and how to configure it. It’s hoped in the future that the USG (at least) will support configuring it through the UniFi GUI but don’t count on.

Being able to choose a route based on the source of the traffic is part of the key of being able to say “only my ST hub can use this WAN gateway” because otherwise yes, in a normal failover situation you’d trash that 100MB/1GB in a heartbeat if you didn’t realise your primary WAN connection had gone down.

That’s why I just use my T-Mobile SIM and just not worry about it, if it fails over, it can still pretty much sustain all normal traffic but more importantly, I almost don’t need to worry about usage at all. 77GB later and they weren’t really worried and now that they’ve just announced that Netflix doesn’t count towards your usage, I would have zero concern.

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I have a few Ubiquiti HD access points, still need to get their router and switch. Currently still on an airport extreme. Perhaps if someone can make a tutorial on allocating a specific network device as backup (not entire network)… I will upgrade!