A friend just got unwired... he got a ethernet connected device.. the same one shown in the ads. The funny box with the flip up antenna.
It will work with linux... why? well to put it simply... the box connects to your PC via ethernet cable, at which point you tell your PC to use DHCP. When you turn on your PC it gets a DHCP ip from the box with the flip up antenna in the 10.x.x.x range. And then it just works... So my guess is unwired do nat translation somewhere on the end of the link in the datacentre they have. Linux connected to this box would work just the same, as long as you setup dclient etc to grab dhcp ip address/lease from the device on your ethernet interface. Routing it and/or sharing it to the other machines on your lan via this Linux box might be tricky or not. I don't believe you can do double NAT, however I am not exactly sure. So don't quote me on that. Cheers On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:09:42 +1000, Phil Mnuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exetel are going to start reselling Unwired's service at a lot less than > Unwired in September. From what I've seen on the web sites there is two > forms of the modem, one for USB connection the other with an Ethernet port. > In theory there shouldn't be a problem using the ethernet one with Linux. > > Phil. > > > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:38 am, James Gray wrote: > > Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:05:49AM +1000, > > > spake thus. > > > > > >>Does anyone have any experience of "unwired".. .good, bad or ugly? My > > >>daughter is getting 12Kb on her dial up because of crappy phone lines and > > >>I'm wondering how good an alternative this is. > > >> > > >>She has a Macintosh which the web site says are supported. Sadly, linux > > >>isn't mentioned - does anyone have any clues about linux connectivity? or > > >>does it just connect to an ethernet port like anything else? > > > > > > As I understand it dave, unwired uses a nonstandard proprietory > > > implementation of wireless. > > > I doubt you'll be able to connect it easily to a linux machine as it > > > doesn't conform to the 802.11b standard I think it is. someone can > > > correct me on that standard number at any rate. > > > hth > > > > I use a wireless ISP here in Wollongong (Fish Internet - "Etherwave" > > http://www.fishinternet.com.au/broadband_intro.php). As I have a > > business connection plan, they provided me with a Cisco Aironet350 > > Workgroup Bridge (shweet). I simply plug it into my (Debian) firewall > > via a cross-over cable and that's it. Assign IP's to my network (I have > > a /27 subnet) and I'm done. > > > > Their consumer product uses a less "flashy" box, which AFIAK has both > > USB and Ethernet connection options. Then, like most broadband > > "modems", hands out an IP via DHCP etc. The guys at Fish Internet don't > > officially "support" Linux, but their tech guys use it extensively and > > can unofficially provide $CLUE ;) > > > > Bandwidth? I see up to about 2Mbps synchronous when things aren't too > > busy, but when all the script kiddies get on between about 3pm-6pm it > > drops off to about 256kbps. The ISP is clueful though, and will be > > de-prioritising P2P traffic in the near future as this is what sucks up > > the bandwidth during those busy hours. Even with the drawbacks of a > > multi-homed network, for $110/mth, 32 IP's, and 5Gb of data (their > > consumer product has a more "consumer" price)...it's not bad. > > Especially when you consider we can't get cable, *DSL etc. in our area. > > > > So that's my experience with wireless broadband. > > > > Cheers, > > > > James > -- > 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 Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
