Stuff That Works With Linux #3 - Huawei USB Modem
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 08:37.
MOBILE broadband has been getting a huge marketing push in the UK. But all the operators say their products - from USB dongles to PCI Express adaptors - are only for Windows or Mac.
Currently I have antiX Mepis 7.5 on my Linux partition and, as my recent review indicates, I am delighted with it.
With XP Pro, I have been using a Huawei E220 3G/HSDPA USB modem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_E220), which came free with my 18-month contract with mobile operator 3.
The Huawei E220 resembles a small bar of soap and connects to your PC via a short mini-to-standard USB cable.
After using it for a couple of weeks with XP Pro (it works very well, I must confess), I started wondering if the E220 would work with Linux in general, and antiX specifically.
USB modem with scanning edgeQam channels into 9G/3G ?
All the fast cable modems and DSL modems are Ethernet in disguise. When you connect Ethernet, you are on the PCI bus of 33 mhz. USB bus however, can have any clock you desire?
As edgeQam gets installed on wired copper network of cable TV and Telco; the standard will migrate to cellphone 9G/3G microwave towers.
Obviously 2.4 ghz frequency will give us 1024 channels of edgeQam standards. And packets of Docsis can be used on cellphones as well.
With edgeQam channels we are looking for 160 mbps data transfer. For wireless, that will obsolete most of the current R&D efforts. Why bother with inferior data transfer methods? Massive integration on silicon chips can do all that in one chip.
So. USB modem may have either wireless or wired HFC network; all with standardized packet formats.