[ubuntu-uk] Using a 3G modem as a fallback

[Dan Fish]

Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/11/10 Andrew Oakley <Andrew.Oakley at hesa.ac.uk>:
>   
>> I'm moving out of The Sticks, slightly to the west of nowhere in the
>> Cotswolds - which nevertheless already has 2.5Mbit ADSL - to the urban
>> metropolis that is a satellite village near Tewkesbury. With this comes
>> wonders of the modern age, the likes of which I have never experienced near
>> my home, such as street lighting, paved footpaths, gas that comes in pipes
>> instead of bottles, mains sewerage and 3G coverage.
>>
>> Given that I already have my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server set up as a NAT router
>> for ADSL broadband, how difficult would it be to set up a cheapo 3G modem as
>> a fallback?
>>
>>     
>
> I would wait till you find out whether it is an issue, failures should
> be very rare.  Certainly for me they have not been often enough to
> justify the effort of an automated fallback system.  (A couple of
> times in three years).
>
> Colin
>
>   
Looking at a similar setup myself - moved to virgin cable and not sure
how stable it is. I've just setup a the zeroshell linux distro in a
virtual machine which is excellent for this sort of this
(http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/)
Dan