DISQUS

DISQUS Hello! Mobile Industry Review is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.

Community Page

Mobile Industry Review

Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics
Jump to original thread »
Author

Get a WiFi router with built-in USB dongle support

Started by Ewan · 11 months ago

Regular reader, MarkW knocked me over this email on the subject of routers and USB dongle backup support.
Hope you’re well. Great stuff going on at SMSTextNews. Still enjoying it hugely. Love the vodcast (is that the right word?!).

Just wanted to flag up something I stumbled across while looking for a new router which might [...] ... Continue reading »

14 comments

  • Kip Hakes

    11 months ago

    Oooooh want one!
    reply
  • MarkW

    11 months ago

    And now I've gone and ordered it! Of course I wouldn't have needed it if I'd unplugged the (now fried) one before the storms hit last night.... Still, great excuse for a new toy!
    reply
  • Ewan

    11 months ago

    Let us know how you get on with it, Mark?
    reply
  • MarkW

    11 months ago

    Be my pleasure, Ewan.
    reply
  • TerenceEden

    11 months ago

    There are several brilliant things about this router.
    You can run PTSN and VoIP through the same phones! VoIP via DECT FTW :-)
    The USB port will run a printer as well as a 3G dongle or an N70.
    Wonder if it will work with a USB hub?

    Nice
    reply
  • DanLane

    11 months ago

    No, it's printer or 3g functionality, not both simultanously :(
    reply
  • DanLane

    11 months ago

    I've been using this very same router since it came out a few months ago... Love it, great bit of kit!
    reply
  • Tim

    11 months ago

    Every time I turned the corner to my office in London and saw a BT van (clumsy engineers), or a small puddle in the road, I knew that the office SDSL line would be killed for days on end (aluminium cabling is the worst for cracking after 30 years under the road). A tree was in the way of an early WiMAX type service, pesky leaves, so this would have been ideal.
    So ideal in fact, I bought one 9 months ago for a mate's business and it's been absolutely diamond. With the added advantage of a VPN server inbuilt and dual failover ADSL2+ connections at 20Mbps at £100 or so quid.
    Just waiting for my DLink to curl up it's toes so I can buy another.
    reply
  • Tim

    11 months ago

    PS. The second connection can either be Ethernet (linked to a cable or ADSL2+ modem) or the USB dongle. You can also load share between the two. I also updated the firmware recently as there were a few issues with initial VPN connectivity.
    reply
  • Mike42

    11 months ago

    ...Huawei do a battery-powered one...
    reply
  • AJ

    11 months ago

    Hey - I posted a comment about this ages ago. Hmmm.
    reply
  • Ewan

    11 months ago

    Did we miss it, AJ? I think I must have!
    reply
  • AJ

    11 months ago

    Used the search box, tried all sorts of keyword combos but...nothing. Maybe I was thinking of another site but I dont really do any other tech sites on the whole.

    If I hadnt screwed up my disqus registration somehow maybe I could have searched that way.
    reply
  • Dean Bubley

    11 months ago

    It's a bit similar to a product Vodafone launched in Italy recently, called the Vodafone Station, and made by Huawei - http://www.telecomsitaly.com/2008/05/fmc_servic...

    I blogged about it a couple of months back
    http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com/2008/05/...

    I've also had discussions with another vendor back in March, who mentioned much the same thing in their pipeline.

    Dean
    reply

Add New Comment

Returning? Login