First off this is only a short term thing and I don’t have the money to buy better hardware.
As for the USB 3G, I can get 200kbps which is OK for what I want, Optus in Australia has a pre-paid offer called Data Days, i.e. 3 bucks a day gives you free data and SMS’s. 2 Weeks is $42 and 4 weeks is $84. With Telstra its 12 GB a month is $90 and Internet node its 18 for about $80 per month. All three has about the same speed.
See my point?? I have tired it and its about what I get with Telstra, but the data is free. No file sharing, but I don’t use p2p applications all that much anyway.
I have a old file server with 2003 installed, a logic board out of a Bigpond 7.2 Home Network Gateway (4 port Lan and WiFi, 3g not working)
Now I have been trying to use this old server to share the internet, but so far nothing has really worked, I don’t want 2003 to run DHCP.
My 3G modem shows up as another lan port on my server.
So I have tired two addresses and both come up with odd errors, I have pics with errors:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/143/serverfail1.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/serverfail2.png/
So any help with this, and yes the server can access the internet through the 3G modem.
