Last year, I hoped to evaluate several mobile broadband internet services for our warehouse internet needs. We can't justify DSL because a business DSL package is too expensive for a low bandwidth internet requirement just so our warehouse manager can send emails and instant messages to our office. Besides, we're not entirely sure we'll be staying in the same warehouse for a year or more.
Today I got the chance to try Sun Wireless Broadband. The modem I got to try was Huawei E1550. Initial installation was not providing stable connections. I had to create a udev rules for the usb mode switching. But I just couldn't connect. I thought I needed to google some more. Searches for "sun ubuntu huawei e1550" brought me to the same non-working solutions for Lucid until I got here and here.
It was simpler than I thought. As detailed in the above blogs, I just installed two packages: linux-backports-modules-headers-lucid-generic and usb-modeswitch, set the appropriate APN and put authentication to PAP, and I was set.
The appropriate APN depends on your broadband package:
- fbband for post-paid < 1000php
- minternet for pre-paid
- mbband for the post-paid > 1200 php
Connection was not bad. You're assigned a private IP address so you can't set up a server with this connection, but it's ideal for the occasional internet needs.
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