Hello Mark, On 5/08/2015 8:18 PM, Mark Trickett wrote:
On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 07:26 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
The best solution for mobile data services using USB modems (3G or 4G) is to have a device running DD-WRT or similar as your "modem/router" .. but with the USB stick providing the modem part. Then you are back to only needing a wired connection to the router and/or wireless using standard WiFi.
Interesting, did not know that such devices had a USB port. Still a question on activation, whether possible under Linux, or whether still requires a Windows PC, optionally a Mac as an alternative. Were the activation to be done by a Perl script, with Perl being provided for Windows, then would be possible on almost any computer.
Actually this is what I use in the car with a Netgear WNDR3700V1 unit. http://www.ofmodemsandmen.com/downloads.html FunnelWeb was my choice. (ROOTer, it's actually based on OpenWRT -- it works for me) Hardware options (both routers and modems) are listed on the site too, so best to find something that is known to work. http://www.ofmodemsandmen.com/supported.html I had no activation issues to consider, can't remember if the above link talks about alternative activation options; but I'm sure that I've read something somewhere... Cheers A.