Could you share a little bit about the use case for the USB150? And I would like to know which connection is the WAN connection for the USB150? If it doesn’t comes with 3G/4G sim slot, then the USB150 connect to Internet through the PC’s connection? If that’s the case, then the use case of USB150 is sharing the PC’s internet connection as an AP to nearby clients?
Trying to confirmed my understanding is correct that:
Wireless to Ethernet: is the use case as a router convert wireless to wired ethernet for situation where only wired ethernet available from the PC so this USB router will connect to the WiFi(with SSID and credential configured) and route into wired port to PC in USB form(but show as Ethernet from PC)
Wireless to wireless: this should be the same case as WIPS or WDS, or connect to outside WiFi and then establish VPN, then broadcast another inside WiFi to users so that they can get into VPN by this USB stick as long as it plug into a power source.
Thanks for replying, in all of your 3 cases above, it looks like Wi-Fi is the only way for outside connection for the USB150 (Where compare other devices which have a physical WAN port):
USB150 connects to internet through Wi-Fi, and routed to wired interface to PC.
USB 150 connects to internet through one SSID, and routed to another Wi-Fi SSID (WISP?)
I plan to use a few USB150 as part of a home mesh network (with a AR300M as the connection point to the rest of the LAN/WAN). Which solution/protocol would you recommend (batman-adv or OSLR). Speed is not my main concern, I am looking for reliability/ease of setup for an extension to parts of my house without good wifi coverage. Any pointer to an example implementation using USB150 is apreciated. The lack of hardware ETH port makes me worry of modifying its openwrt conf.