My current home internet connectivity is through a ZTE Warp Connect Mobile Hotspot. https://www.zteusa.com/warp-connect Do I need a 802.11g Wireless LAN/Firewall Access Point and 4-Port Router? If needed I'm looking at LG-Nortel LNWR100T 108 Mbps 802.11g Wireless LAN/Firewall Access Point and 4-Port Router. But it's from 2007. Nortel is a blast from the past for me. So if this would work I'll use it. http://www.pacificgeek.com/product.asp?id=956495 Couldn't find a better description I won't pay $40 more like $20.
You did not say what you are trying to connect to this device. If you only use wireless devices, you don't need anything. No. This Warp device is already providing you wireless access. And you wouldn't want 11g anyway. That is ancient technology. You would want at least 11n (11ac is the latest). Note this device does not support Ethernet connected devices.
Computers, cell phones & Roku. I know I have what I need to use these devices. I want to know if I need a hardware firewall that would take the ZTE signal & provide a wireless gateway to my devices.
You could rig something with a Pi and two USB WiFi dongles. Or for more bandwidth, a small PC with two WiFi cards, running pfSense. But considering the ubiquity of WiFi, and the need for security, WiFi-WiFi travel firewall/routers might be available.
The LNWR300N connects to the modem via Ethernet. From @Bill_Bright , I get that the Warp device doesn't have Ethernet ports. So you need something designed for WiFi to WiFi. Basically a WiFi repeater. Except that you also seem to want firewall capability.
My signal & speeds are good. I want to know is do I need a firewall & is it possible seeing the ZTE Warp doesn't have Ethernet ports?
Well, I don't like to use the Internet without at least one level of hardware firewall But if what you have to work with is WiFi, you'll need something that does WiFi to WiFi. Backing up a step, why are you using the ZTE Warp Connect Mobile Hotspot? Isn't there some 4G hotspot with an Ethernet port?
Only option my provider sells. It's CDMA Sprint, I don't want to mess about with Raspberry PI, EMblah blah card. I want to know in my setup if it is prudent to get a hardware fw & can I get a wireless fw? Or if prudent would a wireless hardware even work.
The problem is, where would you connect a hardware based firewall with this device? In effect, this "Warp connect" device is doing the same thing a smart phone does when you enable its "hot spot" capability. You are turning a cell carrier into an Internet access point. There is no place to insert an Ethernet device.
Right! Unless you do WiFi to Ethernet, and then Ethernet back to WiFi. Which might perform too horribly to bother.
Yeah, but how? Again, there is no Ethernet port on this device. WAPs (wireless access points) as found in "wireless routers" are used to connect wireless devices to the network. These WAPs are not designed to connect to other wireless networks. I guess you could turn the WAP into some sort of range extender thing, but that's Mickey Mouse, to say the least. And for sure, does nothing for security which I believe is the whole point here.
@Bill_Bright - Oops, I wasn't thinking You'd need a Pi or whatever, with WiFi, plus a WiFi firewall/router.
I think I'll end up with nothing. I want pnp, not something I'll get flummoxed by. Pnp is just a term I know there's nothing to plug.
