[ale] How easy using a USB CellModem has become.

[Thomas, Dave]

Not that gentoo makes everything easy, but I've been running a Sprint
Sierra Wireless AC595U as my primary internet connection for the last 13
months.  It's a remarkably stable and fast and Google Maps is a great
replacement for GPS.  Average ping time to google is 220 ms and download
bandwidth 800 kbps / 120pps.  I've seen as high as 2.5 MBits.  

 

On several occasions I've made skype calls to my parents (on sabbatical
taking to me from internet cafes or hotels in China, India, France,
Africa, and Brazil) before starting the car and driving from work in
Duluth to my home in Virginia Highlands.  Call quality was almost on par
with same you'd expect overseas cell-to-cell.  Routing my Nokia N770
through my laptop to an Asterisk server on Broadvoice was notably worse.
Next task is to route through a Gumstix computer mounted in my trunk.

 

Yay Linux!  Bringing sex appeal to geekdom.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 10:20 AM
To: Mike Harrison; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] How easy using a USB CellModem has become.

 

I had a similar happy moment with Fedora 9. NetworkManager understands
my Verizon card, saw it immediately and all I had to do was put in my
cards "phone number" and vzw for the password and name the connection.
Now all I do is plug in the card and in about 15-20 seconds, I'm online.

Big difference over prior releases. F7,8 required much manual futzing
with ppp-chat scripts. Work laptop with Ubuntu 7.x was not as nice as
the 8.x series.

Yay! Linux!

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com>
wrote:


Sometimes, Linux just makes things too easy to believe. Especially
Ubuntu.
We needed to make a laptop online, just about anywhere.
We bought an Verizon USB 727 and plugged it into an Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
Heron powered laptop. Tailing /var/log/messages, I see an Airprime
driver
installed as /dev/ttyUSB0 (actually, /dev/ttyUSB0-/dev/ttyUSB15). Lets
see
if we get lucky:

as root:

#ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/nodem           (optional, see below)

#pppconfig

   1. create a connection,
   2. named provider
   3. dynamic dns
   4. PAP Authentication
   5. use:YourDevicePhoneNumber at vzw3g.com
<mailto:use%3AYourDevicePhoneNumber at vzw3g.com>  as a login
   6. vzw as a password.
   7. 115200 as speed
   8. tone (of couse)
   9. #777 as number to dial
  10. /dev/modem as modem (or /dev/ttyUSB0)
  11. Pick "Finish".



And now, the commands "pon" will initiate the connection (mine worked
the
first time) and "poff" will hang up.
"plog" is useful for seeing the log as it connects.

It worked the very first time. Wow.

Because of the Airprime driver, it gets amazing speeds, my speed tests
are showing bursts in the 800kbps range (bandwidthplace.com)

The bad news: $60 per month for a high usage plan from Verizon.
Keeping the sales droids from trying to configure WiFi or
networking while at a clients location: Priceless.

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