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What SIM cards do you use for travel routers like Mudi?

511 sats \ 4 comments \ @pertinax 12 Jun privacy

Recently bought a Mudi router after seeing it recommended for GrapheneOS users around here on SN. One thing I've seen a few people mention is that they use a pay-as-you-go SIM in the router and never put one in the phone. What are some good SIM cards where I can:

Prepay so I can switch them relatively frequently (GrapheneOS users -- do you actually do this? Does the cost of doing so add up?). I'm only really finding things like "Pay X amount per month for Y amount of data".
Decent speed and coverage (currently in US).
Pay with Bitcoin...? ;)

I'm doing this partially because I've seen posts where people say you should separate the SIM from the device. why does this make a difference if presumably the router is going everywhere with me just like my phone? Any other tips for using this in a privacy preserving way?

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Jun

I do not have sim sovereignty yet, but there’s probably quite a few suggestions in the posts related to yours: #571961/related

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Beast_Vstar 13 Jun

My friend also use this and yesterday only he told some problems, His microSD is not detected at all. It is a 128GB SanDisk Ultra SD card, with MTP partitioning, and a single FAT32 partition. All my other computers, and even the WD009 read it without issue. And by not working I mean there’s no block device, or any indication that an SD card was inserted the connection is unstable, I often get dropped off of it, especially if I have an active SSH connection, or am installing OPKG software (either via the Gl.inet admin interface Plugins, or via LuCI, or via terminal) mount and share management is atrocious. For a travel router that has been advertised as a file hub, I find it incredibly weird that all shares are automatic, the user has no control over it (unless they go through the trouble of installing LuCI and managing mounts, Samba shares through there), nor is there an interface to browse the files. If this device is to be a storage hub as well, it needs at least a file browser, and a minimal partition/drive/share manager (allow the formatting of a disk, creation of multiple partitions, assigning them to mount points, and creating shares pointing to specific folders, plus share right management). AzireVPN login does not work. I made sure to insert the appropriate password, and even tried a token, all resulted in a “username or password invalid” - which is quite unlikely, since I copy-pasted the values from my password manager The OLED display always show 3G/4G signal as full, even when the web interface shows a single bar of reception… No IPv6 support whatsoever! It would be nice to have a sort of SDK, or example, for development-oriented users to create their own gl dashboard views. As it’s been made apparent by the AdguardHome package, third party services can easily integrate, and I for one would love to have a few extra options for open source firmware. No data limit visualisation and management on the dashboard (warnings, limits, etc.) Quite slow throughputs sometime - especially with VPN, even if uplink is ethernet. Is this behaviour normal, or is my unit faulty?