Re: [SLUG] wireless broadband?

["Tony Cosentino" <justbecos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Del,

I use mobile broadband with the 3 network. It was by far the best value 18
months ago when I got it. I have been very happy with the speed,
availability. Its had about 3 major outages in that period of 1-4 hours.
None in the last 6 months though.

I got have the PCI Express modem and originally was using it on a windoze
laptop. I have since seen the light and converted to Ubuntu and mainly use a
regular PC with a WIFI card. I bought a Wireless router from Netcomm that
takes the PCI express card.
They now have releases a new model that accepts USB modems and PCI express
card modems.
Make: Netcomm Model is N3G002W
http://www.netcomm.com.au/products/3g/n3g002w
They sell for under $200 and I think are a good option, I realise you have
power issues though. Is there anyway you can rig up a solot panel to trickle
feed a dry cell battery to power your laptop as the laptop battery could
handle that lifestyle better than the router.

Food for thought.

Tony

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Del <del@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> So, who uses wireless broadband here?  I'm currently researching the
> available alternatives and although Virgin appears the cheapest they also
> appear to have limited coverage and none of the vendors provide (a) Linux
> support or (b) an offer of your money back if you can't get it working on
> Linux.
>
> My contenders at the moment are Virgin, Optus, and Telstra (Bigpond).
>
> The limitation is that I need it working on a boat, and I only have one
> limited 240v supply.  So I'd prefer it to be a USB stick type approach.
>
> I'm interested in any success/failure stories if anyone has them.
>
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