[COLUG] Hughes net business class internet service

[William Yang]

Pat Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 03 May 2007 15:09:34 -0400, charles morrison <charlie2 at ledgible.com>
> wrote :
> 
>> P.S.
>> Still fighting the Cingular Aircard problem. More on this later. Be at 
>> lunch tomorrow.
>>
> 
> I setup an office on a Sprint Mobile Wireless card (Novatel Merlin S620) and
> it works fantastic.  When I went into the office last night to connect the
> new T1 the card had been in use for a week during the transition between
> service providers.  No calls of "the internet is down", it just worked.   

Alternatives to rolling your own...

1)  There are devices designed to take a PCMCIA aircard that provides 
802.11 wireless and a small (4 port?) switch, doing NAT/firewall for you. 
I believe they're manufactured by Kyocera.  Not much experience with them, 
but the documentation leads me to believe there are few configuration options.

2)  There is a national service that will dispatch a custom, pre-configured 
NAT/firewall/router box that uses an uplink to the Verizon or Sprint 
network.  Depending on circumstances, an expedited deployment can go in a 
fairly short period of time.  They provide the card, monitor performance, 
and charge monthly: as far as the customer is concerned, it's an ethernet 
jack out of the air that can perform up to 1 Mbps down.  Problems are fixed 
with FedEx replacement.  Static IP addresses may be available, though with 
the asymmetric network it may not be best for a wide range of server 
applications.

-- 
William Yang
wyang at gcfn.net