Unrestricted APN

Do you want/need an APN that allows connections initiated from outside the APN?

  • No thanks, no idea what this means - don't think it applies to me

    Votes: 17 8.5%

  • No thanks, I know what it means and I will never need it

    Votes: 15 7.5%

  • Yes please, for [desktop or other] remote support

    Votes: 110 55.3%

  • Yes please, for hosting

    Votes: 61 30.7%

  • Yes please, for some other reason explained in my post in the thread

    Votes: 27 13.6%

  • I clicked a 'Yes' option above, and am prepared to accept the risk of being hacked

    Votes: 93 46.7%

  • I clicked a 'Yes' option above, and am NOT prepared to accept the risk of being hacked

    Votes: 6 3.0%
  • Total voters
    199
All I wanna do is connect to my home PC (which is online via Mweb) with my laptop connected by 3G MTN cellphone while I'm travelling for file sharing etc, the technical talk is pretty advanced for me too right now, but is this what we're discussing and if so is there a "dummy" solution?
 
Ok what if I'm on a wireless network with my laptop in some hotel, not using MTN 3G, all I want to do is connect back to my home PC (which is online with Telkom and Mweb), that's the prob I'm having, as well as with MTN3G
 
ic said:
Oh, ok I think I understand what you mean - your MWEB connection at home, is it ADSL? - if so, you need Dynamic DNS setup on your home PC to bypass the changing IP address issues, have a look at www.dyndns.org for more info :).
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Yes it is and I tried that, and had no luck, prolly did something clueless and will try again
 
I've been looking into using 3G/GPRS for remote hosting so this is great development by vodacom.

We currently have a specific product that requires 3G hosting and I was first thinking of using MTN (they are more "business-y" to me) but really, the detail that vodacom3g goes into and how they react to clients needs is so superior to MTNs that I have decided to use Vodacom for the product.

So, please vodacom3g keep up the good work here and let us know when that hosting APN is up, k?
 
ic said:
@v3g, is the 'listening viewer' mode supported by all VNC client s/w?

Unless I'm being a dumbass here, I take it this won't allow me to ssh into a Linux box behind a 3G connection? - since ssh and VNC are not exactly the same thing...
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I would assume all VNC clients will support this mode. Being open source the source code should be exactly the same for all platforms.

If you can connect to the server, you could always open up a tunnel from the inside out.
 
nic777 said:
I've been looking into using 3G/GPRS for remote hosting so this is great development by vodacom.

We currently have a specific product that requires 3G hosting and I was first thinking of using MTN (they are more "business-y" to me) but really, the detail that vodacom3g goes into and how they react to clients needs is so superior to MTNs that I have decided to use Vodacom for the product.

So, please vodacom3g keep up the good work here and let us know when that hosting APN is up, k?
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K, if you have a 'business-y' type of requirement, PM me and I'll put you contact with the corporate guys. We're very keen to help the userbase develop innovative 3G-based solutions. Can't promise it'll happen in a flash, but it will happen.
 
UltraVNC's repeater doesn't require human intervention ic. Regardless I think it's ridiculous that nobody at Vodacom figured that someone would need to use "Internet" as it's intended to be: Full two way communications. Many applications depend on listening on the client. Essentially Vodacom's InternetVPN is "half" internet then...

I understand all the arguments about needing to mitigate incoming scans or attacks, but the option to have proper internet access should have been there by design, on day one.

Fortunately for Vodacom, I don't have 3G -- because if I did, I'd have made a stink about this on the first day.
 
It was always identified as a requirement but, as with most things, is managed according to customer requirements and priorities.

There are enough other systems that needed to be built to make life better for the majority of subs (mail, dns, virus scanning, etc.) so that a requirement for probably less than 1% of the subscriber base will tend to move to the bottom of the pile. Rather focus (the scarce) resources on getting pre-paid out....

I don't expect a massive take-up of this service, BTW. Look at the poll in this thread, only a handful of forumites responded. It'll probably always be a specialist service, but a very needed one for some forumites, myself included.
 
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I want to connect to my 3G router via DDNS. VNC doesn't help me.
 
ic, this should be an interesting reply ;) I have been trying to deal with Voda for over a year now re: some kind of VPN solution at a realistic price for the "small" requirement customers. i.e. something that can compete with a analgoue dialup solution currently in place.
 
ic said:
[post=421982][/post]That sounds more like a custom VPN solution - to define what port(s) should & shouldn't be open, BTW I also need SSH but on a non-standard port (222) which I might want to change to another non-standard port in the future...

@v3g, I know you've previously mentioned that Vodacom does do custom VPNs for customers, how flexible is the system, and is there a web interface customers can use to make changes to their custom VPN?
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hmm, didn't know about that ... what are the costs like associated to it?
 
Hi,
I am also looking at establishing a connection to s device on a GPRS network, but without luck. I am not so fimiliar with the APN usage, so could soembody please tell me what the difference is between the 'internet" and "internetvpn" APNs?
Has the issue been resolved to get a revese connection up to a device on the GPRs side of the internet?

Thanks
 
Vodacom3G,

Any feedback on that long awaited Hosting APN?

After much thinking and having to balance my budget (lol) I eventually decided to install ADSL to be able to do the hosting thing... but I was informed by Telskom that my exchange has no DSLAM port avaible and they willl get back to me!

I now have basically no options left but the Hosting APN. Any possibility of testing a prelimiary APN?
 
Vodacom3G,
Any news on the hosting APN? What seems to be the greatest challange, does your equipment support this or is it a question of how much to ask for something like it?
 
KMA said:
Vodacom3G,
Any news on the hosting APN? What seems to be the greatest challange, does your equipment support this or is it a question of how much to ask for something like it?
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Neither :) , rather standard corporate process. I just got word that all final approvals were received, so now it's up the (normally very quick) engineers to configure it. There's no hardware requirements as such, it's just a different set of config rules that must be provisioned.
 
Thanks,
Will you please keep us posted on the settings for this? Great service, guys.
 
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