Mobile data on the road, hotspot or a dedicated dongle
Working on customer wifi while travelling is a security risk and often slow. Your own mobile connection is cheap enough to be the default for a freelancer who travels a lot.
Try this first
- 1Check your current plan for the included data volume, you often already have more headroom than you use.
- 2Activate the hotspot function on your phone and test if your laptop runs stably for video calls, not just email.
- 3Consider a separate 4G or 5G dongle or MiFi if you spend whole days on the road, that spares your phone battery.
- 4Make this connection the default for the work laptop in a cafe or train, not the open network.
- 5Add a back-up SIM from a second carrier if you work in regions where coverage is patchy.
- 6Always switch on VPN or a work tunnel on public wifi, even if you only log in 'briefly'.
When to bring us in
If you work on the road structurally and the tooling around mobile access and VPN gets unmanageable, Vectel can deliver an MDM config where this is correct by default.
See also
- First IT setup as a freelancer, what do you actually needNot everything at once. One laptop, a mailbox on your own domain, a password manager, a backup. That covers the first year.
- Hiring your first employee, what IT to arrange before day oneLaptop, account, mailbox, access to the right folders. In that order, not all of it at 9 a.m. on day one.
- Moving to a new office, IT checklistInternet and power have the longest lead times. Plan at least three months out, not three weeks.
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