[AusNOG] Cisco 881 3G and Telstra NextG

[Darren Moss]

Hi David,

That is good news.
We had a similar service type issue with Sierra 3G cards recently, where
the SIM cards were replaced twice and then only after the service was
"re-activated" at the Telstra side were we able to obtain a service.

So now that the service is running, what is the quality like ?

Can you run voice services from it ?

What sort of latency are you seeing ?


Cheers. 


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[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of David Hughes
Sent: 2009-11-25 7:47 pm
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Cisco 881 3G and Telstra NextG


As some sort of closure I thought I'd follow-up to this.  The NextG
service in question is working as of about 4:00pm today.  It's taken
over a week or time, having the SIM card replaced (twice), having the
case escalated to Level 3 support several times, and finally for a level
2 tech to "reset the service again" to make it work.  I think I've spent
about 3 days on hold ......

The nice thing is that the router came up straight away so my config was
good all the time.  Looks like my Google-foo hasn't abandoned me yet  :)

Many thanks to all of those who contacted me off-list with suggestions
of offers of help.  Very much appreciated.


David
...

On 18/11/2009, at 12:09 PM, David Hughes wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I have sitting in front of me an 881 with a PCEX-3G-HSPA express card
sticking out the front.  I also have a brand spanking new Telstra NextG
SIM.  But that's about as far as this story goes.
> 
> Does anyone have any recent experience with the above?  Particularly 
> the NextG  (not bigpond etc) setup?  If I drop the sim from my iPhone 
> into it and reconfigure the APN all works just fine so it's something 
> specific with the NextG APN or related config.  Talking to Telstra 
> left me a little exhausted when after an hour and 7 different teams 
> they still asked me what sort of phone I was using .....  :(
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