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Running all of that separate network equipment seems particularly power hungry when not plugged into a campsite.

I wonder why the author didn't consider a Peplink router which can handle redundant cellular/wifi connections out of the box. That's how I recreate a setup akin to this while I'm on the road in a single device.

Not to say this isn't awesome as is and I'd love an excuse to install a full Ubiquiti stack in my own camper!

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Oh, this _seriously_ chews power. I need to do a blogpost up about the eletrical system that makes it all possible. Leave your digits at https://ghuntley.com/newsletter to be notified when it ships. I looked into teltonika (ie https://teltonika-networks.com/product/rut950/ ) but stopped because the modems are Cat4 (similar story with Microtik).

Care to give us a sneak peak - say, what your typical power draw is like? :)

I'm particularly interested in this topic because I've been thinking about power a lot after the Texas blackouts (considering building a bike generator so I can have power in case of a disaster like that one).

You will likely be disappointed in cellular availability during a long blackout. I'm in the Midwest in a metro area of ~200k. We had a major weather event which took out power for 1-2 weeks. Almost all cellular towers went offline as soon as their batteries died. It seemed there were only 1-2 towers in the entire area that had generator backups.

Have you considered any of the solar “generators”? Basically they incorporate a solar controller, inverter, and battery into one easy to use package. I typically get at least one outage/year here in the Midwest. I bought a kill-a-watt to measure what my fridge is using (about 2kwh/day) and it looks like one of these devices could keep that running through a longer outage. If you want to go even further you can buy more batteries!

Why did you opt for a UDM-Pro instead of virtualizing the router on exsi? It would save space and power over running another appliance.

FYI, Teltonika RUTX14 has CAT12.

Cheers. If anyone at Teltonika wants to send me a RUTX14 I'd love to try it out.

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