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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
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First declaring an obvious bias (I work for
Telstra), the BigPond Wireless Broadband product uses exactly the same NextG
network but you are provided with a live public IP address with no incoming
restrictions. You are restricted from sending on port 25 (smart hosting through
mail.bigpond.com solves that), otherwise you will be good to go. Static IP is
not offered on the BP WBB product at this time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barrie</FONT></DIV>
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