Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:07:44 +0800 From: =?GB2312?B?sLLn9w==?= <sayyanfu@gmail.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-mobile Digest, Vol 396, Issue 1 Message-ID: <AANLkTikjSyFNueb-sSy9zeLHzse4DzR2=3UX2j315Ao4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110118120038.102961065881@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20110118120038.102961065881@hub.freebsd.org>
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Use wifi 2011/1/18 <freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org> > Send freebsd-mobile mailing list submissions to > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > freebsd-mobile-owner@freebsd.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of freebsd-mobile digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: WLAN / UMTS router Huawei E5 (Benedikt Stockebrand) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:24:35 +0000 > From: Benedikt Stockebrand <me@benedikt-stockebrand.de> > Subject: Re: WLAN / UMTS router Huawei E5 > To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> > Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <sa78vyj67lo.fsf@benedikt-stockebrand.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello Matthias and list, > > sorry for the late reply, but anyway: > > > 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: > > 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. > > > Cheers, > > Benedikt > > -- > Business Grade IPv6 > Consulting, Training, Projects > > Benedikt Stockebrand, Dipl.-Inform. http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > End of freebsd-mobile Digest, Vol 396, Issue 1 > ********************************************** >
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