Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread Roger Salisbury
I just setup one for a customer on telstra: They all have a private 10.x.x.x address so you can browse OUT using masq but getting BACK to your box is an issue. I resolved that by establishing a VPN to a known server. In the end performance (perth) was so dismal that he gave up. Data transfer

Re: [SLUG] linux firewall/vpn devices wanted

2009-08-06 Thread Terry Dawson
Voytek Eymont wrote: On Mon, August 3, 2009 4:46 pm, Grant Parnell wrote: Something sub $500.00 that's small, runs linux and is customisable. It probably should have 256MB of RAM and at least the same in flash and two ethernet ports and at least one USB port. Alix or Eber from Yawarra ?

Re: [SLUG] linux firewall/vpn devices wanted

2009-08-06 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Jumping substantially out of the $500 ceiling, are there any opinions on the Seagate BlackArmor NAS devices? They are Linux, have 2 Ethernet ports, so should have some potential for firewall plus various server functions, all in a relatively low-power package. Kevin. On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 16:49

Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread Kevin Shackleton
We have a number of Ericsson W25 Next-G access points on 9 GB $110/month plans for broadband at several sites. Unfortunately at least with our corporate contract we don't receive any feedback on usage. We recently received a $1300 excess-usage monthly bill for one site, which is most definitely

Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Walkom
That's a given, mobile internet or not! 2009/8/6 Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au Telstra == being shafted. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] New in the mailing list, just saying hello

2009-08-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
Arnaldo Ariel Arrieta wrote: Today I joined this mailing list and just wanted to say hello to everybody. My name is Ariel (just in case: I am a guy, In Spanish, Ariel is a male name :-) ) and I live in Argentina. I know this is the Sydney LUG and that we are more than 12000 km. apart, but

Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Thu, August 6, 2009 9:06 pm, Kevin Shackleton wrote: We have a number of Ericsson W25 Next-G access points on 9 GB $110/month plans for broadband at several sites. Unfortunately at least with our corporate contract we don't receive any feedback on usage. We recently received a $1300

Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/7 Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au: 'mydatausage' page is often days behind on actual usage, THOUGH, the billing page is accurate, the 80% SMSs were often way behind as well, the billing folks were quite willing (within reason) to anull/reduce charges (BUT I'm talking about tiny data

[SLUG] GPS data logger

2009-08-06 Thread Simon Males
I'm hoping to buy a GPS data logger that I can take running with me. My main concern is for it to plug and play with Linux. I've managed to find two such devices on eBay that support linux. I expect these devices to be popular with photographers. Any sluggers use them? -- Simon Males -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread jam
On Friday 07 August 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: That's a given, mobile internet or not! 2009/8/6 Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au Telstra == being shafted. Could not agree more .. the masters of If on the first rainy tuesday of a leap year you stand with one foot in

Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
Keep in mind that mobile data (on average) halves in cost each year. So prepaid is preferable over 24 month contracts, no matter how cheap they seem now. Dean jam wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: That's a given, mobile internet or not! 2009/8/6

Re: [SLUG] GPS data logger

2009-08-06 Thread James Polley
If you're specifically looking for running, Garmin make a nice range of sports gps/heartrate monitor/watches called Forerunner. They don't provide any linux support; but gpsbabel can apparently get most data from them (including heartrate date, so you can see how your heart rate varies over time