Re: freebsd-mobile Digest, Vol 396, Issue 1

Use wifi

2011/1/18 <[email protected]>

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>   1. Re: WLAN / UMTS router Huawei E5 (Benedikt Stockebrand)
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> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:24:35 +0000
> From: Benedikt Stockebrand <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: WLAN / UMTS router Huawei E5
> To: Matthias Apitz <[email protected]>
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> Hello Matthias and list,
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> sorry for the late reply, but anyway:
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> > Someone from the FreeBSD' mobile users has this device in use: Huawei E5:
> > [...]
> > and could share some experience? Thanks in advance
>
> Since nobody else with more experience on that thing has turned up:
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> There's rather little (Free)BSD specific about it: The E5 works as an
> independent router with a WLAN and an UMTS/3G interface, offers a DHCP
> server, NAT, as far as I know only vintage IPv4 but no IPv6, and runs
> as an independent device, including its own battery.  Apparently it
> can be connected directly via USB, but I have never bothered to try,
> except to recharge the battery.  Instead I only use it as a standalone
> device, and as such it works fine with me so far.  It has one possibly
> annoying limitation: It can handle at most five clients at a time.
>
> Beyond that it is significantly more expensive than a USB UMTS/3G
> stick, but involves less fiddling around when on the road and lets one
> place it near windows or wherever to improve the signal while one is
> still free to move around in its vicinity.
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> Cheers,
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>    Benedikt
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> Benedikt Stockebrand, Dipl.-Inform.   http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de/
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