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

[Phillip Grasso]

a nice write up by someone on whirlpool.
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=3G_for_Network_Engineers

Good luck, Best Regards
   Phill.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve at skeeve.org> 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).
>
> 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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