Tony Cosentino wrote:
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.
Yes, I already have an 85W solar cell and a 120W wind generator which
will probably be upgraded to 2 x 90W and 400W respectively, and I have
a 12V laptop charger so I can run the laptop and USB hub from the 12V.
There are 4 x 105Ah deep cycle batteries on board so plenty of 12V power.
The problem is that I have *one* 240V outlet and the inverter is only
rated to 400W, so I don't want to go powering routers and things with
it as I will almost certainly need it for other things (charging the
shaver and electric drill batteries, for example, which I don't have
12V chargers for).
I may look at 3, but the N3G002W is only an option if I can run it off
12V.
Del
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