I have been relatively brief below assuming readers would remember my previous thread. For various reasons I have been trying to get mobile broadband going with Bendigo telco. I am currently with Virgin, both these use Optus as the carrier. I had trouble using my existing setup, this turned out to be a problem with one of the initialisation strings in the ppp/peers file. To test the new SIM I purchased a TPlink M7350 3/4g wireless modem, this can communicate via wifi (I assume) and the usb commection provided using the linux kernels rndis_host module. The set for this within Linux is supposed to be fully transparent being totally handled by the kernels hotplug setup. Unfortunately on my system I tried it on (Debian 7.9) while it did set it up, it was with the network interface usb0 down, and there was no way I coule change that. As previously noted I did get it working via my initial modem dongle. I found the service though quite slow compared with Virgin. The Virgin access is more expensive by around 30 percent but its faster and more importantly its prepaid. I do not use much internet bandwidth considering most availible info to be of poor quality and out side my interests (old machinery, archeology, industrial history, contemporary phsychology amongst others). So I have decided the change is not worth any more effort. A major reason for changing to Bendigo was that they had purchased mcmmedia from shep news and therefore going with them would enable me to keep my current email address. All this means having to change that, this is no real big deal as I do not use email very widely finding it reasonably unreliable. Any comments welcome Lindsay