Your recent TelCel Banda Ancha experience, please.

[DonJuane]

And for anyone who might ask, "why not just use a hotspot device" - there are a couple of reasons. Most of the newer hotspots are dropping their external antenna jacks (add a few cents to bottom line). To really benefit from mounting a unit outdoors, the use of the modem's external antenna jack makes the most sense with a directional antenna pointed toward Telcel's tower. Also most of the hotspots have a user limit and are often plagued with not timing out properly when one device powers off and another powers on to take its place in the 5 device or so circle. Another issue is that a used modem and mini-router can usually be picked up for under $25 each, so for 50 bucks you have a much better performing device than the hotspot, with it of course having a bit larger footprint. The modem and mini router will need an external power supply, be it a battery bank (solar is an option in remote areas of course) or standard USB charger. The modem/mini-router setup also provides a wired connection option to feed your home network - something missing in a hotspot (found only in very old Cradlepoint routers).

With the ofmodemsandmen.com "Rooter" firmware loaded into your supported palm router (eg. GL-AR150), an ethernet cable can be routed up to your weatherproof box and POE (power over ethernet) can be used to power your device mounted outside. The inside end of the LAN cable is then run through the POE transformer and then into the WAN connection of your existing home router where you can then enjoy either wired or wireless Internet. Having wired LAN in addition to wireless is great for older peripherals that depend on wired-only connections. I have also used the LinkSys ATA SPA-2102 for VOIP service while traveling and I find that I must be under a very strong signal on a tower that is not overcrowded in order to get a non-choppy audio phone call over the wire. Note that most ATA (VOIP) devices have only a LAN jack for wired internet and do not work on a wireless network. I have also found that these VOIP devices are far superior to smart phone VOIP apps in call quality, at least with the free aps on Android and $3 paid app on iPhone that I experimented with.