a nice write up by someone on whirlpool.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=3G_for_Network_Engineers">http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=3G_for_Network_Engineers</a></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck, Best Regards</div>
<div> Phill.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve@skeeve.org">skeeve@skeeve.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Hey all,</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">I have a customer with a site emergency</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">…</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> some retarded fellow at Commander Centre put through an order which cut off a customers DSL service (converted it to OnRamp</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">). It is outside Sydney and I am not exactly sure what 3G coverage is there</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">…</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> I will investigate that later, but I am suspecting NextG or Optus only.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">But that said. Does anyone have any experience using the new Cisco 881 with 3G or a 1841 with</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">3G WIC card</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">…</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> and.. what 3G providers have worked or miserably failed.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">I do know that NextG has massive inbound restrictions, so using it for a temporary mail gateway is not going to work.. too ma</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">ny application gateways or</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">something…</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> but in this case the customer would be doing an outbound IPSEC or PPTP (normal Tunnels need source/destination IP</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">'</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">s).</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Anyone got any thoughts? If I figure this out, I would probably keep the kit in our library for emergency situations like this.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">…</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Skeeve</font></span><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"></span><span lang="en-au"></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">--</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Skeeve Stevens, CEO</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"><a href="mailto:skeeve@eintellego.net" target="_blank">skeeve@eintellego.net</a> / <a href="http://www.eintellego.net" target="_blank">www.eintellego.net</a></font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Phone: (+61) 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 / skype://skeeve</font></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">NOC, NOC, who's there?</font></span></p>
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