<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/21 Mordecha Behar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mordecha.behar@mail.huji.ac.il">mordecha.behar@mail.huji.ac.il</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">I tried sending this before, when I wasn't a member and it bounced, or the moderator didn't let it in or something.<br>Anyway, if this has been posted already, please forgive me.<br><p>
Does anybody have any experience getting any of the USB 3G modems
provided by any one of the cell carriers here to work on Linux? I want
to get one, but I'm not willing to commit until I know it will work. I'm
not afraid of having to poke around the settings and stuff (I am after
all a Linux user) but I want to know if it has been done before.</p><p>Thanks.<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br>Many of the sold here in IL have a descent module(*). <br>But you need to be aware other this is involed - the sim card and network support.<br>While the modem itself works bugs happen all the time.<br>
The speed presented on the modem isn't the speed you will get from the net - as there is only support for 50% and less for some companies :<br><br>e.g. 7.2mbps written on the casing while the net supports 2.8 (written in small letters in the contract).<br>
<br><br><company name removed in order not to get sued> there is at least one company that disconnect and enforce network priritazing policies.<br>drop speeds to 128Kbps.<br>sends RST packets for some websites (ips) from the internal network.<br>
<br>Other then that - <br><br>The module provided in an install script (it is gpl'd but the binary don't say anything about it).<br><br><br></div></div><br></div>