Currently, my ideal setup is GLinet Spitz X750, with the LTE modem swapped out to a MC7455 for maximum compatibility (for mpcie slotted cards) with the world's LTE bands. Then run GoldenOrb's ROOter. The x750 has integrated dual band simu WiFi, and has an integrated slot and pigtails for the modem. Since I travel a lot, I can power this entire thing off of an Anker USB power bank.
Today, you can go the route of: 1) OpenWRT with ModemManager, 2) WiFix's ROOter, or 3) GoldenOrb's ROOter. Personally I like GoldenOrb's ROOter because it has a nicer UI interface that I can access from my phone. You can SSH into it and hack the scripts to get things to work exactly how you want to as well.
Shoutout to the GLinet team, they actually listen to feedback.
Quite expensive ($120?). My setup consists of a RPi Zero (20 € new), LTE stick as in this post (29 € used), USB power adapter (5 €), micro USB to USB (2 €), so in total only around 55 €, minus lots of fun setting it up (priceless). Not sure the RPi Zero is the best option here in terms of speed, but it works well for my purposes.
Edit: Looks like the RPi Zero maxes out at around 35 MBit/s.
Same issue, keyboard on 2018 had issues. Key broke and Apple deemed it "accidental damage" because of my efforts to clean the key following their support article.
TLDR: I think this guy just received bad customer support, and likely an actual defective device. Author seems to be overdramatic about a mistake by their support team.
Their Jabra Evolve 75's are actually solid. I have 2 of them in my office, and we recently just purchased another pair. They work with and without the USB dongle. The reason why the USB dongle is there is because the bluetooth spec for live calls are not in the HD profile. It's likely not in HD to reduce latency. Therefore, they originally created the Link 370 dongle to use their own proprietary connection to get HD microphone quality, and instant pairing; this is a MUST in a busy office environment. I'm 100% certain their support made a mistake and said the device only works with the dongle. I've also tested it's bluetooth with USBC Macbooks and it works perfectly fine. I suspect he had a defective unit.
Other notes about this 75:
- Connects with two devices at the same time, and switches between them over bluetooth ala Bose QC35 bluetooth.
- Does not charge over USBC, but over Micro USB.
- There are regular firmware updates for the Link 370, and their other Jabra devices.
Turns your entire house into an antenna that radiates across useful frequencies. Like whispering between two people while a tornado siren is going off 100 feet away.
"Unfortunately these devices tend to wipe out almost the entire HF spectrum for anyone listening nearby. As household powerline cables are not shielded for RF emissions they radiate in the HF spectrum quite heavily."
All digital gizmos basically radiate electromagnetic energy at more or less all frequencies all the time while they're on. But some gizmos are better behaved than others, and are rather quiet. Some are total trash, and they're just "shouting" loudly across a broad interval in the RF spectrum.
If there's something like that nearby, your receiver will drown in noise, and you'll be unable to pick up faint signals from distant transmitters.
I don't know much about Powerline, but typical offenders are plasma TVs, cheap computers, etc.
Think of every wire that connects your outlets together, generally these are pretty long. Powerline Ethernet turns those wires into antennas so you get things like this[1].
When you're talking about radio waves there's two power measurements PEP and ERP. PEP is roughly what wattage a radio is spec'd at. ERP is PEP * Antenna Gain, so your long runs of wire make them a high gain antenna.
To use a poor car analogy PEP = horsepower, ERP = 0-60mph. Powerline is a motorcycle, not a lot of HP but still stupid quick(loud).
What makes this even worse is that since your wires are different length is means the noise is pretty wide-band(every frequency) and so it's not something that can be easily filtered.
You guys really need to compete against Wiris in the K12 Education space. If you ever want to see this introduced to the US edu market, ping me a line.
I hate Xero with a passion. I've a software engineer background and currently serve as CEO, ala non-accountant, I'm constantly finding bugs with their software that go on unfixed for months. I'm only using Xero because my accountant prefers it than spreadsheets.
Today, you can go the route of: 1) OpenWRT with ModemManager, 2) WiFix's ROOter, or 3) GoldenOrb's ROOter. Personally I like GoldenOrb's ROOter because it has a nicer UI interface that I can access from my phone. You can SSH into it and hack the scripts to get things to work exactly how you want to as well.
Shoutout to the GLinet team, they actually listen to feedback.