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From: The Natural Philosopher on 14 Jun 2010 18:41
Martin Liddle wrote:
> In message <aAw*U5xbt(a)news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Theo Markettos
> <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes
>>
>> If you're trying to use it in rural Suffolk then you might be pushing it.
>> Rural areas can be a bit marginal, if you have any signal at all, so
>> resorting to tricks like hanging the dongle on a USB cable out the window
>> can be required.
>>
> You can also get signal boosters (basically an aerial and an inductive
> coupler) to help in marginal areas. For my purposes Vodafone pay as you
> go works very well.

The one time it worked, signal strength was fine. But as soon as it got
to 5pm, the signal degraded as everybody else took up bandwidth on the
mast I suppose.

Telling wifey 'I wont be home till I have had a quick knee trembler with
Tracy from accounts ^H^H an after work drink with Trevor'
From: Mark Hobley on 15 Jun 2010 06:17
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:02:21 +0100, Theo Markettos wrote:

>
>> I am not sure how to switch to port 587 (in this case my mail client is
>> Debian reportbug, which makes a direct connection via smtp.)
>
> By default it seems to use sendmail or whatever fulfills that function
> on your machine. If you want it to send direct, you need to add:
> --smtphost=HOST[:PORT]
> to the command line. You can also configure this permanently if you
> wish.

I haven't got a working mail transport agent on this machine at this
time. The reportbug tool communicates directly with the external smtp
server hosted by Three Mobile.

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From: Mark Hobley on 15 Jun 2010 06:30
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:17:58 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> One thing I did find, is that 3 mobiles DNS servers were not fit for
> purpose. I installed BIND as a local DNS proxy server.

I had the same problem. I am using the DNS servers provided by Google at
the moment, until I can find one in Great Britain.

Mark.

> frankly the whole affair merely proved to me that where I needed mobile
> internet - away from my usual places of work - it didn't actually work.
>
> I returned the loaned dongle to its owner, who wryly observed 'didn't
> work for you, either huh?' :-)

I have a relatively complicated setup here, my network is ethernet, this
goes via a router, which originally went to a cable modem. I have removed
the cable modem, and I now use a broadband router, which has a mobile
dongle plugged into the back. The broadband router makes the connection
to the internet via the Three Mobile dongle.

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