2DS With Hotspot?

[Doc Doug]

Vacation home without internet.

I want to use a 2DS or EnvisaLink 3 for my DSC alarm vacation home. Is there a way for me to have a HotSpot / Hot Spot that the 2DS or EnvisaLink 3 will communicate with for access to the internet?

Thank you - Doug

[GrandWizard]

Do you mean WiFi? If you do, what you are looking for is a Wifi-ethernet bridge or sometimes they call them WiFi game extenders.

I think quite a few of out customers use them, maybe some users will chime in with some makes and models. I don't know of any offhand.

[Doc Doug]

A hotspot device provides a wireless (cellphone) internet signal that a wifi enabled device can access the internet through.

Has anyone or does anyone know how to do this? A hotspot device would be a LOT cheaper than having internet service sitting idle for the alarm to go off. As well, internet wires can be cut and wireless cellular hotspot internet can't be cut.

Thank you - Doug

[mikep]

Haven't tried myself, but perhaps a wifi router LAN connected to the 2DS and WIFI connected to the hotspot, use a static IP on the 2DS with the gateway pointed to use the hotspot IP, and the DNS address set for your service provider? A tablet with a LAN port or dongle might work too, but you'd need either a switch in between or a cross-over cable.

I'm currently developing/testing an android app (part of my android suite) that sends text messages and/or emails for 2DS related events (plus phone loss of power, phone loss of wifi connectivity, phone loss of connection to the 2DS). So you could use a wifi router LAN connected to the 2DS, wifi connected to a phone (or tablet with a phone connection). You could use the text messaging for very inexpensive monitoring - I've found contracts as low as $40/year, $0.10 per message.

Mike

[stevew]

You could purchase a 3G wireless router which you could use instead of a wired router, to do what you want. Run the ethernet cable from the router to the Envisalink. This will work perfectly. There are plans that you can buy with unlimited data, as there are with many phone plans, so perhaps that may be the solution. Everything else would work as if it were a wired router; no other modifications needed. No need to worry about static IP's - the Envisalink and the servers will continue to operate with a constant connection, just as if you were on a wired connection. The only thing is that you may not be able to find a plan that you can turn on and off when not in use...not sure about that part. Here is another solution if you have a device that has a WiFi Hotspot. This would use your existing dataplan on your phone, so that would be a less costly solution.

http://support.netgear.com/product/WNCE2001

[Doc Doug]

Thank you for the ideas. My next step is to find a 3G wireless router that has a LAN port and cheap monthly fee!

[stevew]

I saw this one last week for $60.00 and it has a LAN /WAN port

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/deta ... R3020#spec

[pounder]

Cradlepoint has a bunch of stuff like what you are looking for too.

You can simplify from the hotspot since you don't actually that.

What you need is a router that will use a sim card and built in antenna or an external "rocket stick" with its own sim via a usb port.

Many times the router of that sort will have wifi rabbit ears but will also have at least one ethernet port as well - plug that into the module and away you go.