On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:16 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Has anyone in PLUGland purchased and used a mobile broadband account? > I'm interested to know your experience with the various vendors and > hardware; Linux and Mac support stories are very welcome. I'm also > interested to know what your experience has been outside the Portland > area, in other metro areas across the country. > I used to have a Verizon broadband card through my work. After initializing the card in windows, it worked just fine from my Debian install (dual boot laptop). The setup is just like a modem, using some sort of dialer software. Google knows the number, username and password.
The only problem I had was with HP printer software in windows (not the drivers themselves, but the support software) and an OpenVPN connection using the Verizon connection software. Their router would detect some funky network activity and shut down my connection. I would boot to Linux and find that everything would work just fine. The only place I took the card was to Packwood WA for autocross racing. Not exactly a booming metropolis, but I did get a signal and was able to make a connection from several different locations around Packwood. There wasn't a lot of speed in those connections, but they were stable. My Verizon phone works in roaming mode in this area, but there were no extra charges on the broadband card. As far as I know, Verizon is the only service in the area, fellow racers often ask to use my phone. An Internet connection at the track was a novelty. Sadly it was a victim of the economy. -- Derek Loree <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
