Rogers Mobile Internet Stick working under Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:28:42PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
> You may not even need to.  Most (all?) of the 3G phones can be used as 
> modems for a laptop.  Not every provider thinks that is ok, but I believe 
> Rogers says it is ok.

Just be prepared to pay dearly for the data transfers if you do.  I
don't think it counts as regular air time unfortunately, unless they
somehow still support 9600bps dial up on them.  Most providers are
stopping support for that.

> Finding the right cable to connect their 3G phone to the laptop is left as 
> an exercise for the reader.

Well my nokia from rogers came with a usb cable in the box.

> Without a plan they quoted me about $250 for the device itself.  I signed 
> up for one year and got it for free.
> 
> Not at Rogers end.
> 
> There is a Rogers specific PPP config at the laptop end but basing it on 
> one I found for Movistar in Spain and using some educated guess work I 
> knotted it out fairly quickly.  Infact the Movistar config turned out to 
> be a lot closer to Rogers than I had originally expected.  I went and 
> researched several of the options only to discover they were identical to 
> the Movistar example I had :)

Nifty.

> It may well work but I'm not sure if Rogers would endorse a move like 
> that (assuming they could detect it).

As long as you have a plan and pay your bill, I am not sure rogers cares
very much what device you have.  After all they have probably the worlds
most expensive data plans.

> I haven't measured it but when it is set on UMTS the speed is pretty good.
> 
> I used it on the GO Bus from Meadowvale to Toronto Union this morning and 
> had UMTS and good speed all the way.  I used it on the GO Train this 
> afternoon and had EDGE in Union station (slow) but it synced to UMTS as 
> soon as I left the station (fast).

-- 
Len Sorensen
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