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... is now my cellphone.
I finally got too annoyed with Vodafone's unbelievably bad UMTS software (30 MB RAM eaten all the time, causes bluescreens for me, puts itself into Autostart every time you run it, then slows system startup by a full minute until removed again, ...) I don't understand how anyone could write such horrible software given that a UMTS card is a #/"§& Modem behind a serial port.
So I put the SIM card from my original PCMCIA card into my cellphone, a Nokia E51, which I now cannot use for phone calls any more. And installed WalkingHotspot on it, which turns it into a WEP enabled hotspot (no WPA2, unfortunately, because with Ad Hoc WLAN WPA2 doesn't work).
Not only can I now connect both my computers to the same connection, there is also no more software needed on the system. Good riddance, Vodafone Mobile Connect. I just need to enable WLAN now, and click ok on my cellphone whenever a client wants to connect.
Oh, and did I mention that Vodafone's transparent http proxy is totally impossible. Not only does it "downgrade" pictures, which I could live with, it messes up some https connections, which I find very scary...
But that's just fine. I need better security than WEP anyway, so thank putty for SSH tunnels. Fixes the proxy problem once and for all, too.
I'd be all praise for WalkingHotspot if their web shop hadn't just now decided to give me an error right when submitting my payment confirmation (it costs money, only 7 day free trial), so I had to do it all again, and now I don't know if I've bought it twice. Not overly worried about $24, if all else fails I can get them back via chargeback on the credit card.
I finally got too annoyed with Vodafone's unbelievably bad UMTS software (30 MB RAM eaten all the time, causes bluescreens for me, puts itself into Autostart every time you run it, then slows system startup by a full minute until removed again, ...) I don't understand how anyone could write such horrible software given that a UMTS card is a #/"§& Modem behind a serial port.
So I put the SIM card from my original PCMCIA card into my cellphone, a Nokia E51, which I now cannot use for phone calls any more. And installed WalkingHotspot on it, which turns it into a WEP enabled hotspot (no WPA2, unfortunately, because with Ad Hoc WLAN WPA2 doesn't work).
Not only can I now connect both my computers to the same connection, there is also no more software needed on the system. Good riddance, Vodafone Mobile Connect. I just need to enable WLAN now, and click ok on my cellphone whenever a client wants to connect.
Oh, and did I mention that Vodafone's transparent http proxy is totally impossible. Not only does it "downgrade" pictures, which I could live with, it messes up some https connections, which I find very scary...
But that's just fine. I need better security than WEP anyway, so thank putty for SSH tunnels. Fixes the proxy problem once and for all, too.
I'd be all praise for WalkingHotspot if their web shop hadn't just now decided to give me an error right when submitting my payment confirmation (it costs money, only 7 day free trial), so I had to do it all again, and now I don't know if I've bought it twice. Not overly worried about $24, if all else fails I can get them back via chargeback on the credit card.
