Does anyone use US Cellular to work from home through a VPN? If so is there anything specific that I need to do, to the router? Do I need an extender? So many questions, but I’m at a lost here how to make this work. I also am not tech savvy. Any help is greatly appreciated
How are you connecting to the internet via US Cellular?
I have a work issued hotspot and it connects usually without issue to our company (sonic wall) vpn.
I have US Cellular home internet working with a more than one VPN. (It is my backup if Xfinity goes down.) (Different VPNs for different clients.) There should not be anything special you have to do. An older firmware might have an option called IPSSEC passthrough they should be on, but you may not need it. Just be careful that the ip subnet you are connecting to on the VPN is NOT the same as the ip subnet of your router.
Did they give you the Inseego router (recommended) of the Orbi router? I have the Inseego and it works very well.
They both default to 192.168.1.0/24 If the VPN you are connecting to is also connecting to the same subnet, then the VPN will not connect. The IT department of the company you work for should be able to help you with this. The default LAN subnet can be changed to something like 192.168.50.0/24 in the admin control panel of the router/modem by going to http://192.168.1.1
One of the VPNs I connect to forced me to change mine to 192.168.90.0/24
Wireless from us cellular with router. They say it is available in my area. I will have to connect the Ethernet cable to the router to access WiFi to my desktop going through VPN CiscoAnyConnect to be able to work. IT at work claims hotspot will not work. I’m trying to figure out a way to make this work. I’m unable to use a laptop to connect wireless for work.
Thank you for the info. I am going to see if this will work
Ahh, so it’s a fixed wireless product. I didn’t know US Cellular had that.
I would think your IT department could walk you through how to set it all up.
Also, IT departments (from my experience) don’t like and blame all network problems on hotspots.
It should work. How is the signal strength at your house and how congested is US Cellular in your area? I used US Cellular as a backup when my Comcast goes down. I have used it with Cisco Anyconnect and it works.
I work from home and I use AT&T - I was lucky enough to get a small biz plan with unlimited and no data cap before they 86’d it.
I get roughly 70 to 130 down and 10 to 30 up and I use vpn - no issues unless there tower goes down (and it does about once a month or 1.5 months) but for $70 and no other alternatives how can I complain.
I haven’t used it yet. Moving to new area and trying to find out my options. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile,Spectrum, Comcast and StarLink are not available. Supposedly I can get EarthLink DSL, Viasat, NetHughes, BroadbandQ and US Cellular.
Best of luck to you. Avoid any satellite based internet if you want to work from home unless starlink becomes available. .