Modem

When I enquired, they said you can not use it away from your home.

What type of modem are you asking about?

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If you mean your Telstra NBN modem then no, unless you have a very long optical fibre extension lead. haha

We don’t. The old girl would be really cheesed off, getting under the office table to disconnect it when there are other options.
We take one of these with us on trips away, and recharge it enough to last the journey.



Otherwise, we just use email on both mobile phone and iPad 3G/WiFi.

I’ve also got a Celfi GO in my Landcruiser ute that improves reception by a good margin.

Bob

You can certainly try to but as others note it just turns into a 4G s service. I did it several times at our country holiday house and after a day or so got a message from Telstra saying I must have an NBN cable fault and to contact NBN to lodge a fault report. Not sure how long you could continue to use it after that as we returned home shortly after. I would seem Telstra has some sort of monitoring capability to see how often the modem defaults to the SIM card. A benefit [ ??] was that by connecting the holiday house telephone wiring to the modem our landline phone from home also worked. Just what we needed to get all the scam calls, offers of stupid power monitors, water saving shower heads etc !
Ken

Just tether your mobile to the laptop usb c to usb c.