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Host vs Router: The Real USB Bonding Trade-Off

You're one person with one Linux laptop. Why carry a separate travel router when you could just plug a USB cellular modem directly into your machine and bond it with hotel Wi-Fi? This episode cuts through the marketing to find out if the simpler path is real or a mirage. We survey the actual USB cellular modem market — Quectel, Fibocom, Huawei, and the generic dongles — and reveal which ones genuinely support Linux, which have real eSIM capability (spoiler: almost none), and which require kernel modules abandoned years ago. Then we weigh the four real costs of host-level bonding: battery…

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