Neotel Modem/Phone and ethernet

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shane101

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Has anybody tried using one of the 3G routers with a USB port on it to try to connect the Neotel modem to their network? Just wondering what the chances are of it working...

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Neotel did indepth research.

Obviously the demand for ethernet is limited to a few weird nerds which are less than 0.1% of the population.

There are some excellent deals for SMME's: R999 for unlimited data is an absolute bargain.

But it can't even be considered if there is no Ethernet modem allowing for a "plug to Neotel" transfer from ADSL.
 
Alright, any particular reason why this wouldn't work? I understand that the router is for 3G but isn't all the actual WAN connectivity performed through the modem? So if you had a Neotel modem doing the WAN side of the job is there any strong reason for the router not to be able to communicate with the modem and do the routing and LAN/Wireless access side of things?
 
kaspaas said:
Obviously the demand for ethernet is limited to a few weird nerds which are less than 0.1% of the population.
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Way more. Everybody with more than one PC in the house wants ethernet.

Internet over USB is a seriously backward idea. MS Internet Connection sharing, problems with gaming & P2P etc.:rolleyes:
 
M$ Internet Connection Sharing is teh suxxors!!! :(

I don't want to use Microsoft to share my Internet access, I want to use Linux!!! :(
 
Neotel will be releasing Linux drivers in the near future, according to one of their press releases.

Most of these modems appear as USB to Serial adapters and should be quite easy to get going on Linux if you don't mind looking under the hood.

You can also set up something like Smoothwall on a PI or PII and use it as the gateway for an office environment.
 
the ethernet hardware options with full WiFi etc should be here within 30 days i am told....
 
even the usb linux drivers won't help me. I currently run my router in bridge mode to my firewall which does all my filtering/proxying/scanning via eth.
 
As on Wikipedia:

Code division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method utilized by various radio communication technologies. It should not be confused with the mobile phone standards called cdmaOne and CDMA2000 (which are often referred to as simply "CDMA"), that use CDMA as their underlying channel access methods.
 
shane101 said:
Alright, any particular reason why this wouldn't work? I understand that the router is for 3G but isn't all the actual WAN connectivity performed through the modem? So if you had a Neotel modem doing the WAN side of the job is there any strong reason for the router not to be able to communicate with the modem and do the routing and LAN/Wireless access side of things?
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The router wouldn't have the drivers etc. to interface with the Neotel modem, it just won't work.
 
Daniedj said:
The one you posted is UMTS and should not work on CDMA2000 as it's GSM based.

This one should work.
(that's to say if Neotel does not lock their Wireless network to only use their own device. Then I could get a mobile handset.)


http://www.cdg.org/technology/product_pavilion/subscriber_device_dtl.asp?deviceid=1770
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I think they going to lock the device..
Why, must we buy the device from neotel, I asked the sales Representive that I wanna buy the device, he said no.
 
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