According to Whirlpool:
I signed up for the Orange USB modem from Telstra. Strangely I
couldn't get it working under Parallels, but it does work, as you
say, a treat under Mac OS X on my MBP 17.
Download speeds are better than my fixed ADSL.
It took maybe 15 minutes to set it up.
According to Telstra, when asked on 26/4:
Have just spoken to Telstra re 3g USB device and it will become
available within the next two weeks. I will call and order asap.
So, give them another try in a week or so! The vodaphone system also
seems to work, it piggy-backs off the Telstra system where there is
no Vodaphone network available.
Rob
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
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