[TriLUG] Wireless Broadband and Linux, anyone doing it?

[Kevin Flanagan]

I live North of Knightdale, just on the Raleigh City line and the signal 
is good here, it's also good at work in Raleigh, but I was in Wilson for 
work today, and the signal was crap.


The Raleigh City line, it's a moving target, soon to move right across 
me, but I digress....

J.C. Jones wrote:
> Kevin,
> 
> Are you located in a strong verizon signal area. I do fair with Fedora 
> Core 5 near Cary, but I live in Wendell. Very little signal strength at 
> home, but it is still better than dialup.
> 
> My setup was mainly through the network gui . Still works. I usually use 
> it at the Trilug meetings until the wireless router arrives and is up 
> and running.
> 
> jcj
> 
> Kevin Flanagan wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>     I got a Verizon "Wireless Broadband" card from work to evaluate. 
>> Unfortunately I won't get to keep it for good, but I'll take what I 
>> can get.
>>
>>     I have made it work, google is your best friend,
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-77364.html
>>
>>
>> I'm getting ~1Mb/sec download on my Fedora Core 6 box, using the 
>> settings from above.  I was wondering if anyone else had made it work, 
>> and if so, what's the fastest you were able to get.  My Windows system 
>> does about 3Mb/sec, I'm sure that the difference is that I set the 
>> serial speed in the wvdial.conf file, but am interested in what the 
>> most optimum settings are.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in Advance!
>>
>>
>>     Kevin
> 
>