NETGEAR 3G Wireless Mobile Broadband Router
For the past year, or longer, I had been piggybacking on a wireless connection at work. I am almost entirely sure I should not have been doing this, but I figured that I was not doing any harm, and besides, nobody ever mentioned anything about it. Anyhow, a while ago the connection disappeared and my only other means of connecting was via my USB 3G broadband dongle.
I really like my dongle and I think it is great because I can take it anywhere and get online, including my place of work. Having said that, it does have some drawbacks; firstly, the connection is not always great; secondly, it can only be used with one machine at a time. I do not think there is anything I can do about the first issue, but I have now sorted the second issue by investing in some new kit.
Yesterday I took delivery of a NETGEAR MBR624GU 3G Wireless-G Mobile Broadband Router. I have been using it for the first time at work tonight and first impressions are good. Basically, once configured to work with my existing USB dongle and service provider, I can plug-in the router and then get online as I would using any other standard wireless router set-up. The new router also has 4 standard RJ-45 LAN ports, which I am sure will prove useful at some point, especially when I am playing around with some of my older hardware. There are probably a whole bunch of other advantages to using this bit of kit, including not having to have to worry about network manager, or any other connection management software, having support for 3G modems. In fact, the only disadvantage I can think of is that I have to carry around another piece of kit, but this is only a minor inconvenience as the router is quite small and very lightweight. I think this was a good investment.
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