Is it possible to use the LAN ports on a remote synergy device?
Scenario:
I have a Peplink router at the bottom of a pole and another Peplink router at the top of the pole.
They are both synergied together.
I want to plug in a CCTV camera at the top of the pole without running a second cable or adding a VLAN switch.
You could use an ethernet WAN port and set it to a non-nat’ed configuration.
@Jake_W Why do you have a router on each side, what’s the wan side of each connected to?
Hey, sorry for the crazy delay in replying.
Scenario is we manufacture a product (a CCTV system) where there is a peplink router that is always fitted at the bottom of the pole. This has 4g antennas connected.
There is a single cat5 cable that goes up the pole (actually only 2 pairs not 4), and this normally connects to an ethernet switch and IP cameras.
Sometimes we struggle with signal and it would be useful to put a second peplink router at the top. This would give us a better (higher) location to mount the antenna.
I can synergy them together and it works almost perfectly. The problem is how I now connect the cameras.
I could fit a vlan switch at the top but that all gets a bit messy.
The problem with that is it would be layer 2 rather than layer 3, so discovery type protocols wouldn’t work. Interesting idea though.
I would add an antenna max to the top of your camera box, drill a hole and have your vlan’d switch in the box area with your camera.
The antenna max would provide great signal and also a place for your router to go.
What router do you typically use?
The problem with that is logistically it is not great having the router at the top if if comes to swapping sim cards where we can’t use esims etc.
To be honest having the router at the top isn’t essential. We should really just use BR2s for everything with dual modems which would make remote sim provisioning much easier than it is with the BR1s that we currently use.
We already have quite a nifty way of putting a Starlink mini on the top and wifi wan that back to the BR1.
Nice do share some mounting pictures.
The br1 mini 5G w/ wifi and the br1 pro hw3 both support the remote sim , sim injector as another option.