Hi Del, I use mobile broadband with the 3 network. It was by far the best value 18 months ago when I got it. I have been very happy with the speed, availability. Its had about 3 major outages in that period of 1-4 hours. None in the last 6 months though.
I got have the PCI Express modem and originally was using it on a windoze laptop. I have since seen the light and converted to Ubuntu and mainly use a regular PC with a WIFI card. I bought a Wireless router from Netcomm that takes the PCI express card. They now have releases a new model that accepts USB modems and PCI express card modems. Make: Netcomm Model is N3G002W http://www.netcomm.com.au/products/3g/n3g002w They sell for under $200 and I think are a good option, I realise you have power issues though. Is there anyway you can rig up a solot panel to trickle feed a dry cell battery to power your laptop as the laptop battery could handle that lifestyle better than the router. Food for thought. Tony On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Del <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, who uses wireless broadband here? I'm currently researching the > available alternatives and although Virgin appears the cheapest they also > appear to have limited coverage and none of the vendors provide (a) Linux > support or (b) an offer of your money back if you can't get it working on > Linux. > > My contenders at the moment are Virgin, Optus, and Telstra (Bigpond). > > The limitation is that I need it working on a boat, and I only have one > limited 240v supply. So I'd prefer it to be a USB stick type approach. > > I'm interested in any success/failure stories if anyone has them. > > -- > Del > Babel Com Australia > http://www.babel.com.au/ > ph: 02 9966 9476 > fax: 02 9906 2864 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Tony Cosentino m: 0407 156 210 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
