Orange 3G+ modem

[Isaac Witmer]

Brian Ngure, another Ubuntu user in Kenya sent me some zte software for
linux.
Again, I don't really use it a whole lot, but if anyone wanted to try it
out, just send me an email and I'll forward it to you.
It's about 3MB, and only for 32bit. and is called
ztemtEVDO_1.1.8-0sue1_i386.deb
It has a nice graphical interface, but I can't promise that its as stable as
pppconfig for your orange connections.
Anyway, let me (personally) know if you want to try it out.

-Isaac

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The program I refered to yesterday addresses both of Kinuthia questions
> (and the below)  viz:- (a) an alternative to wvdial and (b) "MByte-o-meter"
> needs (as we innovated last year on the best "name" to give this
> monitoring:)
>
> It saves the total KBytes sent and received under "netConnect log" option.
> See the re-attached screen capture.
>
> regards,
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Isaac Witmer <isaaclw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> As far as monitoring bandwidth, I have been trying to figure out different
>> ways of doing this.
>> One idea I had, is running 'ifconfig ppp0" and stripping the content out
>> (cut, awk, etc), right when the connection drops (/etc/ppp/ip-down.d). I
>> never really got a workable solution done, but I could work on it some more
>> if someone really was interested in this.
>> The other, if you use the same modem all the time, is to have conky keep
>> track of the total bandwidth. (or something like conky). Of course if you
>> switch modems it would tell you the total usage of all your modems, which
>> wouldn't be so useful. Also, Conky is a "per session" application, meaning
>> once Conky is closed... you lost your data. Still, it keeps the data alive
>> longer than something like "bmon" which clears as soon as the connection
>> goes away.
>>
>> Personally, I've just gotten in the habit of sending "balance" to "450"
>> every now and then on my safaricom modem... (since that's the only limted
>> connection I use)
>>
>>
>
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