OK this shows my lack of knowledge of whats out there.... I want to do two things:
1) replace my BT home BB 2) for that replacement to work on the road/move 2a) possibly when abroad/Europe The "Huawei E5830" sounds instresting: Question dous this mean that like phones one gets a sim and can put this in any device? (yes I am thick; when it come to all things mobile) Steve On 30 Nov 2009, at 09:24, Phil Thompson wrote: > On 30/11/2009 Simon Lea wrote: >> if you are talking about a dongle type of BB then the Vodafone 3G >> don't work with Linux > > while this may be true of an individual device there are many different > models and a few different makes of hardware all being branded by the > mobile companies - some of which even look identical - so we need to be > a bit specific. > > One solution that may appeal is the Huawei E5830 "mi fi" device sold by > Three for £50 on PAYG which includes a wifi router so from a device > about the size of a mobile phone you get wireless mobile broadband, as > it were. this makes it operating system agnostic. I set a customer up in > Water Newton with this as their ADSL did not connect due to line length > - the Three service tested at 1400 - 2300 kbits/s download and 800 - > 1100 kbits/s upload so I guess they are on a lightly loaded cell. > > The above is handy as you can velcro it to a window frame etc for best > reception. > > I have also tested a Huawei Three dongle from Staples in Peterborough > with Xubuntu 9.04 and that worked once I had run the utility that flips > it out of CD mode into modem mode and presents it as a Huawei 220 data > card. http://blog.lynxworks.eu/20090830/huawei-e1550-on-ubuntu > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G may be helpful as a > list of devices out there. > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
