On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:03:43 +0800 Elijah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > Anyone here tried out PLDT's weroam on their linux laptops?
I use it on my Gentoo laptop, but I've needed to download some firmware images from the Sierra Wireless website to get the thing to work properly, so I seriously doubt that it will work out of the box in Ubuntu. Wasn't that hard to get working though, the instructions available at the Sierra Wireless site worked with only the obvious modifications (setting up the passwords and the dial number). It's dog slow almost everywhere though, even under Windows. It's barely useful for doing quick SSH connections to machines in our office (connected via PLDT DSL), and I occasionally see fantastically high ping latencies (over 20 seconds!). It's extremely difficult to use for anything else: it seems impossible to browse most sites outside the Philippines (Google and Yahoo work though; probably because they use CDNs with presence in the Philippines). The only way I was able to use it to access other foreign sites was to run a proxy server on one of our boxes. It's useful enough for what I need it to do (quick fixes in the middle of the night, and when we're in inconvenient places), but that's about it. It is not the sort of thing you want to use as your primary Internet connection. -- As long as you're doing nothing wrong, you don't need privacy. (What the Government considers wrong subject to change without notice. Civil rights void where journalists prohibited. Contents may settle during extraordinary rendition.) http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com
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