Finland delivered (finaly!) one LPDA-A0044 directional antenna and ADPT-024 adapter inductive adapter. LPDA-A0044 is made by Poynting Antennas a South African company. Quite a clever name – pointing… poynting mmm. Go figure, a Finish webshop selling South African antennas – can this possible get any more global? They also produce the ADPT-024 inductive adapter. Originally [...]

Finally! I have just received the Huawei E960 HSDPA modem, router, switch, WLAN gismothingomobob. I think it is fair to call it that because it integrates EVERYTHING you need to setup a connection to the internet, route trafic to and from it, plus network all your devices. It’s about the size of my first lunch [...]

I am messing around with mobile internet these days and thus fealt the need for a nice firewall installation. I do not trust these gadets to be safe enough to use on it’s own. Enter Fwbuilder a, in my opinion, brilliant frontend to setup a firewall in Linux. It needs ssh, a 2.4-2.6 kernel and [...]

Today I ordered the following: Huawei E960 LPDA-A0044 directional antenna for UMTS/HSDPA/3g/GSM Inductive ADPT-024 adapter My current ADSL connection reached an all time low of 832kbit downstream and I have had enough of it. The HSDPA coverage is not great in my area, so 7.2mbit is a bit of a high hope. However with a [...]