Linksys 3G router

[sneakyneil]

Tomorrow I should have in my grubby, sweaty, grasping hands the following

3g enabled sim
voda pcmcia mobile connect card
Linksys 3G router.

Any pitfalls to getting this working? Any hints/tips? Having been royally arsef****d by a certain telecoms co. today i *need* this working tomorrow so any gotchas gratefully received!

Cheers and salutations!

[Mr E]

As long as the 3G card attached to the NW, it should be fine.

BTW, I'm currently working on some kit that does almost exactly the opposite thing....

[BliarOut]

Make sure you ring up and check the 3G sim is enabled

[sneakyneil]

Piece of piss - can't reccomend this solution highly enough if you're in a tight spot. Only slight hiccup was I didn't push the card in far enough at first, it felt like it went home but it wasn't, cue a few minutes headscratching speed is fine - approx 1Mb (and we were out in the sticks)

250MB/month ain't enough though - per day would be more like it, and it's about £1/MB over that on the £25/month contract! and double

[BliarOut]

I think you can get an unlimited contract for about £40 per month.

[sneakyneil]

Bloody hell bit quick off the mark Looks like thats going to be the answer.

[SpencerO]

Hope you've got on ok - the only snag i had with this kit was that the router wouldnt recognize by newer 3g Vodafone card.. it would only look for the original slower cards. However a firmware upgrade fixed this. Other than that no problems at all. Its worked like a dream since that one stumbling block. Such a good idea - cant believe there arent more of them out there...

Edited by SpencerO on Friday 2nd March 15:17

[SneakyNeil]

SpencerO said:

Hope you've got on ok - the only snag i had with this kit was that the router wouldnt recognize by newer 3g Vodafone card.. it would only look for the original slower cards. However a firmware upgrade fixed this. Other than that no problems at all. Its worked like a dream since that one stumbling block. Such a good idea - cant believe there arent more of them out there...

Edited by SpencerO on Friday 2nd March 15:17

Weren't the earlier cards 384Kb? If so this was deffo a later one since download speeds were consistant with about 1Mb. It worked out of the box but couldn't get the router to give me an exact speed though.

Also, how slow is the upload?? <=- Retorical question, its 'kin slow!!

Still, dead handy all the same..

[Mr E]

SneakyNeil said:

Also, how slow is the upload?? <=- Retorical question, its 'kin slow!!

Depends how the network is setup, but certainly no more than 384Kbit/sec

HSUPA is coming to improve matters on uplink.

[bigdods]

Should see 3.6Mb on HSDPA either now or very shortly , with 7.2Mb to come later in the year IIRC ... very imited coverage mind you.

[sneakyneil]

I was only seeing about 4KB/s upload, so sending attachments, uploading files etc. was a bit of a pain.

[randlemarcus]

Some bright spark in my company decided a 9Gb Monthly limit was fine and dandy for the 3G users. Just great when its only me and a few others, but not so good after a wider rollout. Eeejits. Might admit to using Bittorrent over 3G just to annoy them while the usage stats were being reviewed

[Mr E]

bigdods said:

Should see 3.6Mb on HSDPA either now or very shortly , with 7.2Mb to come later in the year IIRC ... very imited coverage mind you.

HSdPA is Downlink, not uplink.

And the 3.6Mb cards are few and far between. 2Mb is more likely on current HW.

You're unlikely ever to see 7Mb - I've done it in the lab with prototype UEs and a cell dedicated to nothing other than HSDPA, but without two frequencies no operator will set a working cell up like that (although, dynamic code allocation could get a cell into that state).

HSUPA is 3GPP release 6, and will be 6 months or so. You're currently limited to 384K up, maximum.