Not all the Jan the Van journeys are far from home; after testing the brand new motor home and verified that all the stuff is complete I moved to the next step. When I bought the van I opted for a version including the most important features without any kind of extra.
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I started making improvements that should put the vehicle in condition to be comfortable and very efficient no only for travelling and visiting places but also be a good workplace. Working from home or working from the van should be almost the same. Part of the improvements is not worth to be mentioned (maybe a note appears occasionally) because are related to the asset of the computers I use for working. Until now I have tested and released (will be used in the next travel) version 0.1 of this V++ journey.
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The interesting changes, indeed, are the updates and upgrades I made to create an efficient infrastructure inside the original van.
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The Network
Using a couple of Raspberry Pi 4B I have set up an internal network LAN. I work from home and I need to be able to work also during long travels; regardless if you are working or using the Internet for leisure only, in my opinion, this is worth to add. There are several good reasons to do this:
- Optimise and control the Internet traffic, especially when using more than one device with some sort of mobile access point.
- Protect the Internet-connected devices while in your mobile home.
- Connect multiple devices together without consuming mobile Giga.
- Avoid using the Internet when it is not necessary.
- Connect internal devices through the mobile LAN on both WiFi and wired Ethernet.
- Protect the Internet-connected devices when using public WiFi connections.
- Always connect to the same network, regardless of the WiFi access point is in use.
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With this setup the main Raspberry Pi act as a WiFi to Ethernet router. It can connect to any external WiFi including the smartphone hotspot. This Raspberry Pi is connected to a small 1 Gb network switch and provide the automatic assignation of the IP addresses to all the other devices connected to the switch.
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Connected to the switch another Raspberry pi act as an Ethernet to WiFi bridge: all the devices always connect their WiFi to this protected access point and can share data together, as well as navigating on the Internet.