We’re excited to announce that the BR1 Mini 5G (SKU: MAX-BR1-MINI-5GN-T-PRM) now comes with built-in Wi-Fi, bringing several key benefits to your network setup:
Simplified Setup: Enjoy a compact, all-in-one device that simplifies installation and management.
Cost Savings: Eliminate the need for extra access points, reducing overall costs.
Increased Reliability: Integrate external Wi-Fi as an extra WAN for enhanced redundancy, ensuring a more reliable network.
The BR1 Mini 5G is now even more versatile, offering you seamless, reliable connectivity at a great value.
Thank you for that good news. This opens many possibilities for these devices for in applications that would previously had to use BR2 Pro or 5g dome for any 5g deployment.
Would it require two wan connections to switch to a remote SIM card from the wan side? I ask this because I know the cell modem has to reset to switch to a remote sim which would make the router lose connectivity momentarily if it was the only wan connection available to contact the sim injector. Thanks.
You will need to have a secondary WAN on your WAN port, this is possible if you renew the PrimeCare subscription.
You can add for example a Starlink or any other WAN option and use SpeedFusion to help with the WAN loss.
If you need to swap between sim cards without any other WAN option you will need dual Cellular. The BR2 with LTE modem has the option for dual 4G build on the same platform as the BR1 mini, this BR2 is the replacement for the UBR range. (datasheet)
Unfortuantely not 5G however a dual 5G modem is way to powerfull for this platform anyway.
If you want to have a cost effective dual 5G you could go for dual BR1 mini 5G with B One as loadbalancer.
This is good info thank you. I figured I would have to bootstrap a remote sim card with a secondary connection and WiFi WAN would make this easy to do with nearby devices or other available WiFi. Although I don’t see this on the spec sheet?
Thanks for that, I must have been thinking I was looking at the WiFi version while staring at the non-WiFi version on the spec sheet this whole time so you got me twice now. Thank you again for filling me in, this is more great news. Sometimes my SIMs are offsite so this will give me good options.
This model is missing GPS, so it’s not usable as a mobile/fleet device like all other standard BR1 Mini models, at least for all of our clients. Other than SIM injector supports, what is the advantage of this model over simply buying a B One 5G for only slightly more, which also has substantially higher performance and Wi-Fi 6?
I’ve had one for about a week. It’s destined for an Antenna Max (which will be on a mast on my sailboat), so form factor and RemoteSim are critical.
It’s running as a Synergy Device with a B One as the Synergy Controller. The Sim Injector hangs off the B One.
Running well so far, though strangely it was necessary to select SIM A as well as RemoteSim to get RemoteSIM to work, a solution that worked for user tividoo in a different context.
Those only matter for us in mobile applications, but we can’t use them for mobile because of the missing GPS.
We also use these for synergy devices, and love the current/core model for that. But without being able to use them for mobile, a core+wifi seems redundant when the B One exists with wifi 6 and much higher performance.
I’ve never really been confused by a product release like this before lol. If it just had GPS like all the other “standard” Mini models, it would make perfect sense and I could deploy quite a few. Actually ordered a bunch in, got them a few days ago, and turned around and sent all of them back because the missing GPS wasn’t mentioned to partners until the announcement here.
I’ll keep my eye out for a use for one, just in case.
