Fido is losing money on me / Sierra Wireless AC860 on Vista!
Along with my Windows Vista installation, I have managed to hack the Sierra Wireless AC860 card into my spanking new laptop. I have spent this entire weekend (ok, not quite the weekend, but I need the literary flair) re-installing Vista, and after trial and error got the wireless card running on the machine.
There’s a secret with this wireless card – the 3G watcher isn’t 100% compatible with Vista. The folks at Sierra Wirelsss posted a knowledge base article that walks you through how to install the 3G connection as a Dial-Up Connection (DUN). This is what I would have done if I had a 1900/850 HSDPA phone. After this step, launch the 3G Watcher, select the DUN connection and watch it fly!
Hence my post – Fido is losing money on me. I just racked up 30MB of transfers in under 5 minutes. Imagine – even at $0.01/kb at pay-per-use, my bill would have been $300! Too bad for unlimited North American roaming – it’s just $50/month for the kind of abuse I’ll be putting this guy through. Even if Fido capped the speed to 48KB/sec (as compare to Rogers’ 150KB), the latency is so much lower than EDGE. We can definitely proclaim that Canada (Toronto) has a real metro-wide wireless Internet network!
What happened to the old AlanLok dot Com?
This is my first post in my brand new blog. Most visitors are probably wondering where everything went? All my photos are offline, along with my original biography and MIDI music. Rest assured, it will be restored when I get a chance to fit the old with the new.
You will be hearing a lot more from me, as I venture into my daily raves and rants about all those toys (get your mind out of the gutter folks… those who know me should realize by now I mean TECH toys). Of course that’s not the only thing I’ll be writing about.