So i’ve been using my SXT LTE6 for a few years to provide internet in or remote location. Well finally we now have fibre in the area and have signed up and been provided with a fibre router from the provider (which is very feature deficient to say the least)
The provided router can however be switched to passthrough “modem” mode to pass the WAN ip on through to another device, what i am wondering is what i would need to do to be able to continue using my SXT as the router on our network, basically switch it from using LTE1 to provide internet and instead use the LAN2 port as the WAN connection (passed to it via the new box)
Besides the convenience (or non convenience) of having your router up a pole outside , the SXT LTE6 is not a very fast device, so (it depends on the fiber connection you have) it may be a bottleneck.
At what speed you have your fiber connection?
If faster than 100 Mbps or so the SXT will be too slow.
To give you some comparisons, using access point hardware as a router, ignoring their wi-fi capabilities, an Ax lite (60 US$) should be good up to 250 Mbps or so, an Ax2 (100US$) up to almost 1000, an Ax3 (139 US$) for 1000.
This said, the SXT should be configurable like any other MIkrotik router, though the convention on other devices is to have ether1 as WAN and the other ports as LAN, in your case you need to invert it, so that you keep ether1 (and the PoE) power on the LAN side and set ether2 as WAN.
The fiber connection at the moment would probably be OK with the 100 mbps limit on the SXT, but would be nice to future-proof the setup in case we get faster in the future. I didn’t realise the Mikrotik access point hardware could be used as a full router, so that’s good to know.
I think i may pick up an Ax2 in that case, this would also allow me to get rid of an access point and 5 port switch i’m currently using too, kill many birds with one stone!
, the SXT LTE6 is not a very fast device, so (it depends on the fiber connection you have) it may be a bottleneck.