[AusNOG] Cisco 3G WIC with Australian 3G providers?

[Skeeve Stevens]

Hey all,

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.

But that said.  Does anyone have any experience using the new Cisco 881 with
3G or a 1841 with 3G WIC card. and.. what 3G providers have worked or
miserably failed.

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 something. but in this case the customer would be doing an outbound IPSEC
or PPTP (normal Tunnels need source/destination IP's).

Anyone got any thoughts?  If I figure this out, I would probably keep the
kit in our library for emergency situations like this.

.Skeeve

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