docs/home: Add 5G WWAN modem reference
Notes from bench-testing the Quectel RM500U-EA on tower, bought to eventually replace stream's Virgin Media WAN. Like the switches and APs, the module is configured out-of-band and is not referenced by the flake. Records what it takes to connect at all: the module must be switched from its stock NCM composition to MBIM, since under NCM the PDP context activates but the cdc_ncm link never raises carrier; and the connect only succeeds with the network-expanded APN read off the default-attach bearer, as IPv4. Also flags the two consequences for stream: the SIM is CGNAT so it cannot carry the public lease stream's WAN currently publishes, and the bearer reports a /8 that would cover Tailscale's 100.64.0.0/10 if configured literally. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## WAN (Virgin Media DHCP)
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A Quectel RM500U-EA 5G modem is being evaluated as a replacement for this WAN; it is bench-tested
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only and nothing here depends on it yet. Note that its SIM is CGNAT, so it cannot carry the public
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lease this section assumes — see [wwan.md](wwan.md).
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### Link and addressing
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`wan` is a renamed igc NIC (`00:f0:cb:ee:ca:dd`) towards the cable modem. The modem segment is
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