[Wolves] Mobile Broadband

[David Goodwin]

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Adam Sweet wrote:
| Hi everyone
|
| This kind of bypassed me at the time and I've never fully understood it
| since.
|
| Mobile broadband, right, there's more than one way to do it. Can someone
| either explain or point me at a link which explains the different ways
| to connect to the net using GPRS, GSM, 3g cards and whatnot. Is 3g the
| same as GSM?
|
| Also, I have a mobile phone with a 3g sim. Is that of any use to me when
| it comes to getting my PC on the net? Other than by using bluetooth and
| a mobile phone as a painfully slow dialup modem that is.
|
| That said, I assume that everyone has settled on the fact that 3g modems
| are the way forward for now? This is fine except that I imagine it to be
| hard to find anyone offering a static IP address which I could allow
| through my work firewalls.

Hi,

We use t-mobile; it's pretty cheap (well for a business) and seems quite
quick.

AFAIK all the major 'carriers' use the same USB dongle (if you go for a
usb dongle)..... hence :
http://codepoets.co.uk/t-mobile-webnwalk-aka-using-huawei-e220-usb-modem-linux

AFAIK, the card will attempt to use 3g, and fall back to one of the
slower protocols if it can't get 3g..


David.
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David Goodwin

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]
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