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

[Mark Smith]

Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> 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).
> 

Wouldn't a business Next3 service not have these limitations, or at 
least, a lot less of them?

> 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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