[Gllug] experiences with mobile broadband devices?

[Karanbir Singh]

On 06/26/2009 08:06 AM, Magnus Leuthner wrote:
> I'm thinking about getting mobile broadband as a replacement of
> "normal" wired broadband. Does anybody know whether these devices work
> with GNU/Linux? E.g. does the device that comes with the T-Mobile plan
> work with Linux, are there drivers? How stable are they?

I have sort-of followed this conversation a bit. and it seems no one 
pointed out the one fact : most mobile phones work as modem's too - an 
do so either over bluetooth or USB.  Also, most telco's have "unlimited" 
plan options for data/internet on the mobile phones. O2 for example, 
offer something like this for £7.50 a month.

Just as a point of reference, I've regularly use 2.5 to 3gb of data 
traffic a month from my mobile phone and not had the 'unlimited' police 
call me as yet. May was 3.7gb, June so far has been 3.1gb.

The other issue about how broad a band this really is : I average around 
35 - 55KiB/sec on short / web traffic. Sometimes going upto 70 - 
90KiB/sec on larger transfers. Compare this with the 1.2MiB/sec that I 
can easily sustain on the home adsl link for .iso downloads from 
mirrors.eu.kernel.org or mirrorservice.org

- KB
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