New subject: Problem with a new 3G moble broadband set up

26 Oct 2015

On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:02:12 Craig Sanders said, 

...
  do you know someone who has a mobile phone that will
let you borrow it
 for 10 minutes? 
...
  perhaps they have an old phone buried at the bottom of
a drawer? 
...
  craig  

On thinking the current situation over I do not regard it as serious enough 
to bother any one with something I know so little about (I have never had 
or used a current mobile phone). As mentioned I currently have broadband 
access to Virgin with the modem, a  Huawei E220, Now I do have a Huawei 
E160 (Note 1) as a spare. I have currently put it away and cannot find it, 
but but will surface soon as I am cleaning up my computor room today. 

Another option probably worth pursuing is an external router that can use a 
3/4G modem such as the Netcom Wireless 4GM3W with a Netcom N600, the latter 
does not have linux suppport but the I assume the 4GM3W does. Further 
research is required. 

Of course a real good solution is to find a couple of Belkin micro N300's 
(one as a spare) Belkin Australia claim these are readily availible. 

Note 1: The Huawei E160 is a slightly cut down version of the E220. 

Note 2: I did a lot of web searching and ringing around yesterday and was 
offered 3 different mobile broadband dongles, none of which had in built 
linux kernel support, _______________VERY_______________ frustrating I may 
say. 

Lindsay

Re: Problem with a new 3G moble broadband set up