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] 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] 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

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

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

2009-08-05 Thread Roger Salisbury
Hi all How much better are the more expensive 3G plans over the cheaper plans? I have just tried out a 3G broadband dongle on linux Model : E160 I tried to get it to work on Centos 5.3 but failed. couldn't get usb_modeswitch to give a /dev/USB0 . However tried on Debians LENNY and was

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

2009-08-05 Thread James Polley
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Roger Salisbury rgsalisb...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi all How much better are the more expensive 3G plans over the cheaper plans? I have just tried out a 3G broadband dongle on linux Model : E160 I tried to get it to work on Centos 5.3 but failed.

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

2009-08-05 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Roger Salisbury wrote: Hi all How much better are the more expensive 3G plans over the cheaper plans? I have just tried out a 3G broadband dongle on linux Check out the Virgin Broadband (on Optus Network) offerings at http://www.virginbroadband.com.au/ and see this review of Linux and the

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

2009-08-05 Thread jam
On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:22:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: How much better are the more expensive 3G plans over the cheaper plans? I have just tried out a 3G broadband dongle on linux Model :  E160 I tried to get it to work on Centos 5.3 but failed. couldn't get