Anyone know of a reasonably-priced 4G (or later) USB stick that'll Just Work™ in a oldish Mikrotik box? It's sitting on top of a rack in the datacentre to give me emergency access when needed, currently using a 3G USB stick I had lying around. Ideally I'd like to find a stick that'll be willing to pass through a public IP address to the host, but I haven't been able to find anything that seems to do that. The current 3G stick insists on NATing, so if I have to accept NAT, it's no worse than at present - I just maintain an outbound tunnel to a third-party VM I already have elsewhere and log in through that. It's one more step I could get rid of though. At the moment one solution I'm seeing is to replace the whole Mikrotik box with the cheapest one that has a cellular data modem built in for circa £100, but it'd be nice to generate less e-waste and (hopefully) spend less by replacing only the USB stick.

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2024-08-08 14:24:11

[UPDATE] [PEW] VoIP and SIMs :
Phasing out of 3G on data SIMs

https://aastatus.net/42708

3G is being phased out by all mobile network operators, and will stop working for our data SIMs in early September.

The data SIMs we provide already support 4G. In a small number of cases it is possible that devices are too old to support 4G, in which case the device is sadly obsolete and will need replacing in order to keep connectivity.

You will be emailed if we think your SIM is one which is in …