[Gllug] Mobile phone broadband

[Caroline Ford]

2008/6/2 Caroline Ford <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com>:
> 2008/6/2 Sean Burlington <sean at practicalweb.co.uk>:
>> Vidar Hokstad wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2 Jun 2008, at 14:51, Dylan wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have any experience or recommendations they can make,
>>>> especially
>>>> regarding the quality of service from the various suppliers, which
>>>> 'modems'
>>>> work with Linux and which don't (if any) and any gotcha's or hoops
>>>> which have
>>>> to be navigated.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Vidar,
>>
>>   I've just got myself a three USB modem which I'm reasonably happy with
>>
>> I've made some notes at:
>>
>> http://www.practicalweb.co.uk/blog/08/05/25/mobile-internet-and-ubuntu
>>
>> I need to update them
>>
>> 1) it does work under windows after all - but under either OS it
>> frequently doesn't connect first time so you have to retry
>>
>> 2) The windows tool has a nice SMS interface (I didn't realise these
>> modems had SMS capability). I'm investigating Linux sms tools
>>
>> 3) Connection speed varies - sometimes great - sometimes poor (dial up
>> speed) - from the same location in central London .
>>
>>
>> The rounded oblong dongle thing (HUAWEI E220 3G HSDPA USB MODEM)  is
>> supported in kernel versions of 2.6.20 and above
>>
>> some ports are filtered - but I haven't investigated properly.
Vodafone claim no ports are blocked fwiw. I use a Huawei E270 happily
(ish) under linux, the E220 is very similar.

Caroline

Caroline
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