A place I worked at developed a Linux driver for the  Sierra  card (I know the 
programmer let me know if you need it) that might work with mikrotik probably 
better chances paying a pfsense bounty on the pfsense forum to get it working—
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On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Chris Hudson <[email protected]>
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> I built a Mikrotik cellular 3G/4G/LTE device last year and the Mini-pcie card 
> that I used was the Sierra Wireless AirPrime MC7700. At the time with ROS 5.x 
> the drivers sucked bad and wouldn’t stay connected. This week I pulled it 
> back out and installed ROS 6.13 and so far it has worked good. Unfortunately 
> I’m in an area with AT&T “4G” and our throughput kinda sucks. I’m going to 
> take it with me to OKC next time I run up there and see how it works on the 
> LTE up there.
>  
>  
> Chris
>  
>  
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of TJ Trout
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 5:47 PM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] 4g router device
>  
> I wouldn't recommend a mikrotik for this as they have horrible cellular modem 
> support. If you even find one that is compatible it likely has bugs where 3g 
> might work but 4g doesn't. Cellular is damn expensive but might be doable in 
> this case. The plan with baltic is sprint only and is a true backup plan with 
> low monthly costs but high data cost per MB so I would go with a standard 
> verizon plan and maybe get a refurb cradlepoint MBR1000 on ebay, I have one 
> and it works great. I'm a 100% mikrotik network as a wisp but can't recomend 
> for cellular
>  
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> The Cell data Rate plans can get expensive.... if that is not an issue, yes 
> this will work.
>  
> However you can also consider building them a small network using 900mhz eg 
> to view the camera or tie this to their existing internet (home or nearby) .
>  
> Just a thought.
>  
> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet & Telecom
> 7266 SW 48 Street
> Miami, FL 33155
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>   _____  
> From: "heith" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 5:58:58 PM
> Subject: [WISPA] 4g router device
>  
> A while back in Vegas Baltic Networks had a mikrotik router that operated on 
> Verizon or Sprint. We were told it could be used for a back up at a remote 
> site if you lost standard access through your regular network. In the past 
> week I have had 2 ranchers hit me for a solution where they could check their 
> water tanks with camera. The ranch property is leased ground so there is no 
> standard wireline or wisp in the area and is way out of our service area.
>  
> Has anyone done anything similar to this? From what we gathered it would use 
> an existing cell plan for the data usage. I also heard that it could be used 
> on Verizon & Sprint, but AT&T may be an issue. These places all have power at 
> the tank/pumps, so we were just thinking a ubnt camera and this device, maybe 
> a small battery backup, but we were just unsure if the router was a viable 
> product for this application
>  
> Thanks
> heith
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