Hi I’m a new Peplink BR1 Pro 5G owner and had a question.
My iPad has a Verizon data SIM in it. I turn on hotspot and connddct to my router via hotspot on the routers 2.4 WiFi signal. That works great. I also have a T-Mobile sim in the iPad and a Verizon hotspot plugged into WAN 1.
Would I be able to plug an Ethernet cable into LAN 1 and go back to the iPad for a bonded connection?
I live stream baseball games and the software ( Mevo Multicam) that does the encoding and streaming runs on the iPad. I’m hoping I can bond three connections on the Peplink router and pass it back to the iPad for a stable and high bandwidth connection.
Would this work?
If not, can I disconnect my wan via WiFi connection on the router and run speedify on my iPad to bond the connection from the router to the Verizon SIM on my iPad.
Looking forward to any guidance.
Thanks.
Hi…
But you already connect BR1-pro to iPad using WiFi hotspot from the same iPad?
There is some URLs, covering how to connect an iPad to ethernet dongle…
But the iPad will be a client to internet access, not be a router.
What you are trying to do is going to be dependent on how the ipad software works.
For the hotspot, can you force it to use the cellular as the upstream, or when you connect the LAN cable, will it prefer that source and try to use that as the internet source.
Then, if the wifi hotspot does use the cellular only, and that works as hoped… then you have to figure out if in the Mevo software, can you tell it which interface to use for the stream. If it auto-selects, it’s possible it would use the cellular only, and ignore the lan connection.
For what you are trying to do, the easiest solution would to be to run something like speedify on the ipad and just bond the built in cellular and the peplink cellular connections together in the ipad.