I'm not only the IT Director for my company but for the CEO's home and it seems like when it comes to his home, I run into quirks all the time.
He lives in a huge home in a rural area:
The "X" on the far left is what we call the "boot room" and that is where the internet comes into the home. The other X's are where the other two Ubiquity switches are.
He best option the last year or so has been a Pepwave modem with a Verizon signal from a cell tower. We simply plugged in this Pepwave Modem, set a few things on it and plugged it into the switch in the boot room and the internet would propagate down to the other switches and WiFi devices, all Ubiquity devices. 3 Months ago, that tower went down and Verizon has no ETA so broadband has been horrible, 1meg or less.
So, the CEO tasked me with finding a new solution. I hesitated on Satellite Internet but weighing the only options we had, I decided ViaSat was the best option.
Well, the modem that came with Viasat has no granular control over the network, meaning no way to set or change IP, DNS, DHCP, etc, as the Pepwave had. So simply plugging in the ViaSat modem to the network resulted in no internet. I plugged my laptop directly to the ViaSat modem, and this is what it pulls (with much of the info masked for security:
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : ASIX AX88178 USB2.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : ****
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : ****
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 67.**.**.***(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, September 5, 2019 3:19:37 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, September 5, 2019 4:19:36 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 67.**.***.*
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.**.**.***
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : ***
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : ***
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 99.196.**.**
99.197.**.**
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
It pulls a 67. IP, from a 10. DHCP and DNS is a 99.
Our local network on the current modem is on a 192.168.1.1/24 range.
The ViaSat's default IP is 192.168.100.1
I did have someone say I could link up the Pepwave to handle LAN to WAN routing and DHCP like this:
I humbly will admit not sure how to get started on this...the Pepwave does offer a lot of customization but not sure where to start since the ViaSat pulls all kinds of IP's outside the 192.168.1.1/24 range...
Any suggestions?