[ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle
Dear all, Has anyone got experience in using a mobile G3 Dongle with Ubuntu. Vodafone or 3 Network some other provider. If so could you recommend the best one to purchase. Thank you in advance Huet Bartels -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle
huet bartels wrote: Dear all, Has anyone got experience in using a mobile G3 Dongle with Ubuntu. Vodafone or 3 Network some other provider. If so could you recommend the best one to purchase. Thank you in advance Huet Bartels Hi Huet, http://www.3dongle4free.co.uk/ £5 as PP iirc. Pay as you go, on 3. Can easily be unlocked to work on any network. Works well on Ubuntu. Kind Regards, Dave Walker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle
2009/9/2 Dave Walker davewal...@ubuntu.com huet bartels wrote: Dear all, Has anyone got experience in using a mobile G3 Dongle with Ubuntu. Vodafone or 3 Network some other provider. Hi I have a Huawei 169g 3G Dongle on '3' and it just works in Ubuntu. Just plug it in, following the simple wizard and you are connected. Some of the newer dongles might not work to start with but with 9.10 only a month away I am sure they will soon. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle
Dear Huet I use the Vodafone HSDPA USB Stick, up to 7.2 speed, on Ubuntu 9.04 running on an Ei 1201 laptop. All I do is plug and play and it comes up in the wireless network options. Good reception where I have used it in the UK. Douglas -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle
huet bartels wrote: Dear all, Has anyone got experience in using a mobile G3 Dongle with Ubuntu. Vodafone or 3 Network some other provider. If so could you recommend the best one to purchase. Thank you in advance Huet Bartels I have a Vodafone 3G dongle on Pay As You Go and it works great, well assuming I can get reception (I've got patchy reception for all networks in my area). I have managed though in some areas to get 3G and HSDPA (which is faster than 3G) and it works really well. I have a feeling that most providers use the same modems now these days. My modem is a Huawei K3565. I've also tried a Huawei E220 on Three and that also works fine. As far as which network to go on, I'd look at the coverage maps for each provider. Would you want to use it out and about or at home as say a broadband replacement? It's also worth considering if you want to go on contract or pre-pay. Being on Vodafone pre-pay for the modem, £15 gives me 1GB allowance but the allowance doesn't expire which means if I only use say 100MB in a month, the remaining 900MB can be carried on until it's used up. Then I simply top up again. Although it's a bit more expensive than Three I find it fits my usage well (I've had the modem going on 5 months and not topped it up yet, I'm still on the original 1GB that came with the modem). On the other hand, with Three, 1GB lasts for 30 days or until you use it up (whichever comes sooner). If you don't use the 1GB then you will loose it at the end of the 30 day period. However if you do use 1GB a month then it may worth out better as it's cheaper than Vodafone. I would also suggest considering T-Mobile. They do an option where you can pay per day, week or month. IIRC it's something like £2 a day, £5 a week or £15 a month which is 'unlimited' although I gather their idea of unlimited is if you go over 3GB (might be 1GB) then they will throttle the speed down. I haven't used T-Mobile so I can't comment how good or bad it is. O2 also do a similar deal to T-Mobile where you get a fixed allowance for a day, week or month (and you pay for a day, week or month) but I have heard about outages on O2 and I gather the coverage isn't as good. However your millage may vary. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle
Dave Walker wrote: Hi Huet, http://www.3dongle4free.co.uk/ £5 as PP iirc. Pay as you go, on 3. Can easily be unlocked to work on any network. Works well on Ubuntu. Kind Regards, Dave Walker That's a good offer. Can say I've seen them any cheaper unless you go on contract. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle
On 02/09/09 12:30, huet bartels wrote: Dear all, Has anyone got experience in using a mobile G3 Dongle with Ubuntu. Vodafone or 3 Network some other provider. If so could you recommend the best one to purchase. Thank you in advance Huet Bartels I use an Option ICON 225 dongle on the Orange network. Works fine in Jaunty and (mostly) Karmic. We did a lot of work on 3G last year for CarPhone Warehouse and Elonex. Most common dongles work with little or no trouble on Linux with recent kernels. Hauwei were a bit of a PITA as they would release a new model but keep the same USB id. Doh. Alan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle
2009/9/2 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com: On 02/09/09 12:30, huet bartels wrote: Dear all, Has anyone got experience in using a mobile G3 Dongle with Ubuntu. Vodafone or 3 Network some other provider. If so could you recommend the best one to purchase. Thank you in advance Huet Bartels I use an Option ICON 225 dongle on the Orange network. Works fine in Jaunty and (mostly) Karmic. We did a lot of work on 3G last year for CarPhone Warehouse and Elonex. Most common dongles work with little or no trouble on Linux with recent kernels. Hauwei were a bit of a PITA as they would release a new model but keep the same USB id. Doh. Alan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ DO NOT go for a ZTE modem (e.g. the ZTE 627 that 3 do). They don't work out-of-the box with Ubuntu and are a royal pain (though apparently the included software works, though that's a third-party app and driver which don't work on 64-bit). The situation will improve but at the moment something along the lines of an E160 is your best bet. Have a look here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/9/2 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com: On 02/09/09 12:30, huet bartels wrote: Dear all, Has anyone got experience in using a mobile G3 Dongle with Ubuntu. Vodafone or 3 Network some other provider. If so could you recommend the best one to purchase. Thank you in advance Huet Bartels I use an Option ICON 225 dongle on the Orange network. Works fine in Jaunty and (mostly) Karmic. We did a lot of work on 3G last year for CarPhone Warehouse and Elonex. Most common dongles work with little or no trouble on Linux with recent kernels. Hauwei were a bit of a PITA as they would release a new model but keep the same USB id. Doh. Alan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ DO NOT go for a ZTE modem (e.g. the ZTE 627 that 3 do). They don't work out-of-the box with Ubuntu and are a royal pain (though apparently the included software works, though that's a third-party app and driver which don't work on 64-bit). The situation will improve but at the moment something along the lines of an E160 is your best bet. Have a look here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G A work colleague of mine was given a ZTE dongle for his birthday and it was indeed a royal pain to get working for him. It doesn't mount as a USB storage device (which it is) nor was as a modem (which it also is). After much faffing about on the intarwebz I found two deb packages to install which gets the thing (sem-)working. The ironic thing is: once it (finally!) mounted as a USB device, the blasted thing has Linux drivers on it! Gr Oh, and the 3 coverage (here in Glasgow anyway) is utter rubbish. -- Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk http://RonnieTucker.co.uk TWITTER: twitter.com/ronnietucker MSN: ronnietuc...@hotmail.com Registered Linux User # 456627 Registered Ubuntu User # 18227 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
