On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Vick Khera <[email protected]> wrote: > > When we were at BSDCon in DC last month, the local wifi provided was > over a shared connection built this way by hand using an OpenBSD > laptop as the gateway to the verizon network via usb stick. It worked > quite well for the first day :-) >
The "first day" part is key there. :) It fell apart after that. pfSense doesn't support any 3G devices. The driver support on FreeBSD in our experience is somewhere between poor and non-existent depending on the card. The cards with driver support tend to be old ones you can't get new anymore. 3G requires PPP support as it's functionally virtually identical to a POTS dial up modem. PPP dial up support may appear in 2.0. 3G drivers is a bigger problem. There are some boxes that'll output 3G to Ethernet in some fashion (router generally), but they aren't cheap. $200-300 USD if I recall. That may be the best bet. One caveat though - don't know how it is in .ca but most providers here in the US will limit you to 5 GB and charge an exorbitant amount per MB above that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
