Good day all, I have read through a few threads here but thought I best post my scenario and hear back from the openwrt gurus. My elderly parents live in a different country and I remote manage their PC via Teamviewer. The country the live in have constant power cuts.loadshedding for 2-4 hrs at a time thus everything is battery backed up. They are on a LTE connection with a modem and a mimo external antenna on the roof. In future they could get fibre.
They have security cameras that I would like to have on a vlan as they get cloud notifications.
Criteria:
low power device , so I can’t use an old pc.
-router must have a sim slot and have 2 connections for the external mimo antenna
router must be openwrt compatible so I can do vlans and use the lte connection and possible fibre in future
4 port ethernet preferable
rasberry pi I am weary off due to the SD card that could fail and I have no way of remotely connecting.
with openwrt if the remote upgrade fails in future then Luci will just revert to previous config version.
wifi 5 is fine
Router must be affordable as I know Draytek has one but cost like 300-400 dollars.
Mikrotik has a lte router but no external antenna connectors. Mikrotik seem to be well supported with openwt .
I see they sell Mediatek devices on Aliexpress but always hard to know what component on them will not be supported. By a missing driver in openwrt.
Am I asking for the impossible?
Any advise appreciated.
This was the one I looked at as I am sure one can request 2 ts9 or sma external antenna connectors.
I can only vouch for the devices that I have used myself, and the Zyxel LTE5398-M904 meets most of your requirements (it fails in the number of ethernet ports, as it has only two). It is still not supported on the stable releases, but so far I have not had any issue with the snapshots.
The ZTE MF287 Series was/is available in Austria only, afaik, but I think it would fit the bill perfectly - that is, if its integrated LTE modem can cope with the LTE bands required in your country of residence. It can be had for a few Euros (~10-30) used around here. I could try to help you acquire one, if you are interested - PM me if so.
do you have some facts that sustain this ?
I believe if the supported bands match (the network licensed ones) the device should work - how well it depends on a lot of factors but mostly signal strength / isp network peering
sure, if the bands are the same ...
I know my current EU bought phone struggles in US, but that could obviously be because of something else than band support, I haven't investigated it, not in US often enough to care...
This looks very promising . Thanks will do some research between the different models. Certainly looks better priced if I want to buy it second hand and flash openwrt.