I started to admire Huawei.
Because they start to have real products taht can fulfill even very exigent needs. Mine in this case. I have recently bought an Huawei E220 HSDPA modem for my roamings. I was skeptical fisrt as this Chinese manufacturer was not among my favourites. Soon I realized that I was very wrong. It is a perfect geek toy.
First - it is open: It is very easy to use both from windows and from Linux (I haven't tried yet on my Solaris box but I Think that it works)
Second - it has some style: It really looks good.
Third - it is useful. I was always angry on the costs of the hotel's WiFi. With this small device I was able to have decent speeds at lower costs than with 802.11b that the hotel was offering.
It did not work in Romania because it was SIM locked for A1. I solved it using the KulaKendi unlocker.
Now it works even in Romania with 7.2Mbps and this is great.
I think they are heading to build some nice products as Linksys did with their OpenSource rourters (e.g. WRT54GL) that are addressing also the hobbyists and for end users.
Cool. I had used the Vodafone HSDPA here in NZ for almost a year when I decided it wasn't worth it.
ReplyDeleteI had an embedded data card Sierra in my Thinkpad that worked perfectly with Linux but not so well with the dodgy Vodafone software. It was a really ugly-buggy version of the Vodafone Mobile connect that you had.
Here in NZ Vodafone is the worst telco - very expensive and very bad manners.