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Ethernet 3G modem

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  • 08-04-2008 10:52pm
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    towel401
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    does such a thing exist? I know someone who knows someone who knows someone with a company laptop filled with annoying restrictions that would prevent them from installing drivers for the USB modems. wifi / ethernet works fine though. bluetooth probably won't work either

    anything i found so far is either an American UMTS modem for American UMTS or one of those routers that requires a PCMCIA card, but these + the card are a bit spensive.


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    Jonathan
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    Something like this?


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    Eric Cartman
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    cheap soloution is an old laptop or embedded pc (i used a toshiba libretto 70) with a pcmcia card installed and an ethernet adapter, then configure a proxy server or create a gateway under linux


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    skearon
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    towel401 wrote: »
    does such a thing exist? I know someone who knows someone who knows someone with a company laptop filled with annoying restrictions that would prevent them from installing drivers for the USB modems. wifi / ethernet works fine though. bluetooth probably won't work either

    anything i found so far is either an American UMTS modem for American UMTS or one of those routers that requires a PCMCIA card, but these + the card are a bit spensive.

    Linksys have a unit that is tied to the Vodafone PCMCIA card, I have installed a few for customers who cannot get ADSL and needed faster web access in their offices

    Also Draytek do a router that uses the usb 3g modems, have installed them for a client on O2 and they work well.

    Also there is software available that turns 3G WM and Symbian phones into Access Points


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