I've had some good success with using my Sierra Wireless APEX 880 USB 3G device of late. But when I saw the new Huawei E5832 (dick smith listing as E6939), I had to have it! It's a 3G modem and wi-fi router in-one!
I've got an old Mac Mini laying around, I may have found a use for it..
I've thrown it up in the cabinet with my other network goodies and added it to the network as a squid proxy server and fax server.
Mac Mini: G4 1.4, 1GB RAM, 80GB hdd, fax/modem. no wifi/bt. Leopard.
it's headless, I can administer it from my other machines using screen sharing, which is nice.
I'm running "SquidMan" for OS X, which is a GUI squid configurator, the squid daemon comes with it. nice. Configuration is fast and easy.
I've loaded up 'sarg' so I can monitor the traffic/logs if I like... (not important to me)
I've turned on 'fax sharing' for the internal modem, and plugged it in with the ADSL on a splitter/filter.
Maybe I'll come up with some other things for the mac mini to do...
I'd like to get a little comms cabinet and tidy this up at some stage too.
any other uses? My NAS does the filesharing, etc.... I'll have to see what I can come up with :)
What I'd really like is an app/tool that allows me to log usage of a network interface, to hostname/IP level. EG how much data on port 110 for host abc, etc. or how much total data through a network interface for IP xxx... hrmmm. I had a great Linux app that monitored this through IPTABLES once upon a time.
James
after reading a little info on whingepool recently, i took the plunge. I bought five packs of the 2-SIM virgin deal for $2/pack and walked away with 3GB of 3G data for $10. No obligations, no catch... done. Tried one in my iPhone and tethered to my macbook. killerrrrrrr. Have ordered an actual 3G USB Modem from ebay... c'mon dowwwwwwn!
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