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color:#1F497D'>I keep handy an Optus HUWAEI E960 MODEM on a 6GB plan, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://personal.optus.com.au/web/ocaportal.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Template_wRHS&FP=/smallbusiness/internet/wireless&site=smallbusiness">http://personal.optus.com.au/web/ocaportal.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Template_wRHS&FP=/smallbusiness/internet/wireless&site=smallbusiness</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>$300 up front, plus $30, $40 or $50 bux a month. Great as
a standby / backup solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>4 port 10/100 switch + Wireless 802.11G/B access point, and USB
powered / attaches as a dongle if you get in trouble. Very handy Swiss-army
knife of connectivity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Syncs at between 3mbps and 7mbps per second in HSDPA areas, or
can fall back to GPRS at .. well, barely worthwhile speeds. (Would be better to
use dialup).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>You can buy one over the counter, and I can do IPSEC cisco to cisco
and PPTP over it to an ISA server box no worries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Treat it like a home Optus cable connection, albeit with 110ms
latency (Pretend you are in Hawaii) and you’ll be fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Not so great for VOIP, but acceptable for email + general
net.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Works great for me in my car when camping, all along the east
coast of Australia, but check coverage of course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>-Sean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Skeeve Stevens<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 18 December 2008 10:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> isp-australia@isp-australia.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> aussie-isp@taz.net.au; ausnog@ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] Cisco 3G WIC with Australian 3G providers?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hey all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I have a customer with a
site emergency… some retarded fellow at Commander Centre put through an order
which cut off a customers DSL service (converted it to OnRamp). It is
outside Sydney and I am not exactly sure what 3G coverage is there… I
will investigate that later, but I am suspecting NextG or Optus only.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>But that said. Does
anyone have any experience using the new Cisco 881 with 3G or a 1841 with</span>
<span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>3G WIC card… and.. what
3G providers have worked or miserably failed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I do know that NextG has
massive inbound restrictions, so using it for a temporary mail gateway is not
going to work.. too many application gateways or</span> <span style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>something… but in this case the customer would be
doing an outbound IPSEC or PPTP (normal Tunnels need source/destination
IP’s).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Anyone got any
thoughts? If I figure this out, I would probably keep the kit in our
library for emergency situations like this.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>…Skeeve</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>--</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Skeeve Stevens, CEO</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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