Hi Greg If you use the Maxon drivers for the NextG wireless card it works fine. I know, as one of my clients has one, and he's lent it to me when I was in Sydney recently. I just download the Mac drivers from the Maxon website <http://www.maxon.com.au> When I was in Sydney , I plugged in the card, waited a minute or two and it made a connection (the green light flashes) and I'm on the internet. No problem at all. Although, it was set up when I had it. We also borrow one from one of the Telstra reps to use for Internet at the WAMUG meetings at Curtin. Again, it just works. I may be able to get you the rep's name or can help you a bit more with this if you like. I'd need to find out that info, but drop me an email if you're interested, otherwise others may also be able to provide it to you as well.
But I know they definitely work. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 7/05/2007 3:33 PM, "Greg Manzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello WAMUGers > > My Wife works in the mining industry and needs wireless broadband. > She has a 17" MacBook Pro 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo/2GB/256MB VRAM 2GB > SDRAM. With OS 10.4.9. > > We recently tried out a Bigpond Next G, wireless broadband USB mobile > card, recommended by a Fonezone shop (Plan name: BigPond Wireless > Super G Fast 20Hrs - Mobile). The management software that came in > the box didn't even show the USB mobile card as an option on it's > list of devices. After loading the latest recommended Beta > connection manager, from BigPond, we were able to go on line up until > we completed registration. After that we were unable to go on line to > anywhere other than the start of the BigPond registration page. > > A Bigpond representative who was very helpful and knowledgeable about > Apple, spent an hour and a half on the phone with me to try to get it > going. We found and reported a few bugs in their beta software (which > they advertise will probably be the case). But in the end we > established that the Mac beta software would only let us go to the > Bigpond registration site and no further until the software is > developed further. This may take some time. So we sent the device > back for a credit. The devices have dropped in price by $50 in the > last few days, which may be telling us something. > > For what it's worth, apparently Vista users have similar problems and > can only make the wireless broadband work after a 20 minute phone > call to BigPond. Thats why it takes so looong to get through to > BigPond tech help at the moment. > > The MacBook pro has no built in modem so we are now in a situation > where my wife has no internet connection at all. All the PC people > think this is a great joke. She has just spent over four grand on the > latest and greatest and can't even send an email. We could buy an > external modem but that is just one more bit of gear to carry on the > plane and probably has a multitude of cables and wall warts to go > with it. Plus the idea is to be able to use the machine on a mine > site without the need for a phone line or 240V access if possible. > > She has a Sony Erickson 750i phone which may be able to be used > somehow, but before spending another day and a half on fruitless > phone calls, I thought we would ask the group for some wisdom and > guidance please. > > > > Regards > > Greg Manzie > Director > > Glyde Gallery Conservation > Conservators, Consultants and Picture Framers > for Museums, Art Galleries and Collectors > > 5 Glyde Street > Mosman Park > Western Australia 6012 > > ABN 89 154 124 265 > > Phone (08) 9383 3929 > Mobile 0448 844 381 > 0438 833 144 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
