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by wildbean1

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I live in Australia and recently purchased a HP Laptop DV9000 series with Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit pre-installed in March '07. At that time, I was not concerned about broadband as I had dialup at home. I now find myself wanting to get wireless broadband on it and I'm having great difficulties finding a way of achieving this goal. Has anyone any ideas, or if they know of any technology which may help me to solve this continuing problem. Has any companies actually made a wireless device to suit a 64-bit system? I know bigpond in Australia is thinking about developing a wireless network card at present and they are testing them, but how long this will take for them to have a functional device is unknown. I'm interested in gaining feedback on this topic, as I like the versatility of this operating system and unit, but not the lack of products to suit it. Is this 64-bit version just another fad or will companies actually supply the products to suit the system in the near future?

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by wildbean1

After looking for options on how I can achieve results from this exercise by looking up the Australian ISP List and Broadband Choice in Australia, I decided to start visiting some retailers to find a solution, as the abovementioned lists were outdated by between 1 and 3 years.

I finally found a reatiler, "3" who installed the the broadband service in front of me and I was able to browse the internet without any problems at all. In fact, their service, compared to bigpond, was much faster, cheaper, and they have a range of plans to suit the customer where on a plan, you get the modem for free.

The only downside to this story was that 3 use bigpond's server when 3's server is out of range, and they charge accordingly. I'm was prepared to pay the extra, as long as the modem worked. If any person in Australia wants more information, visit their website at http://www.three.com.au/ and you can look up the details there.

by wdtvandsound

RE: Sanity check: Will WiMAX be a 3G killer, or is it vise versa?
If you are in Australia wireless would blow your mind.
Using (Ericson developed with Telstra)(on 3G based)Next-G 850MHz (same frequency as CDMA)(CDMA 3G hybrid concept)HSDPA here on the Next-G Telstra BigPond network, all devices use an enhanced SIM card called USIM card. Two for exsample a Modem router GateWay7.2 that can connect to 4 devices LAN ethernet or 20 on WiFi up to 3Mbp plus, also newly available a dongle that looks like a memory stick thats faster, you can get 8Mbps down and 3Mbps upload very reliably on the newly but limited eastcoast rollout (In theory)21.1Mbps network system Wireless.
Ericson acheaved this on a test signal over a range of 200km.
All (Next-G Mobiles)Cell phones are on, 7.2 soon to be upgraded to 21.1 network cards or Mobile broad Band covering 98.8% of australia!!!!This is as fast as the average metro phoneline!!

In 2011 depending on rollout costs, the system will speedup to 41.1Mbps.

You can connect your Next-G Telstra mobile phone in to your laptop PC via USB and connect as a dialup at a much greater cost per Meg. On the Mobile(Cell)phone wise you can brouse the net for free, Video call, check your email, use Where Is GPS,Watch PayTV (Fox-Austar), WiFi, all this with out drop outs in large buildings, train tunnels!!

Soon we will have an Australian stimuless, a Government National Broard-Band Network rollout, called NBN that will replace most all the copper network with a fiber optic node network to every home and business.

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