Verizon cellular access & Ubuntu

[Chris MacDonald]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Andy Graybeal
<andy.graybeal at casanueva.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I live in a reasonably unpopulated area, but we get pretty good Verizon
> coverage.  I'm looking to get Verizon internet service at home.  We use
> Ubuntu and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience and/or
> recommendations?
>
> Would I expect to have a USB dongle peice of hardware?
>
> I have a toshiba notebook at home that a friend gave to me because the
> screen died on it, it works great hooked up to a external monitor or
> headless. I plan on using this as our cellular gateway.
>
> I look forward to moving away from dial-up modems.  My friend came over
> with his Droid w/ Verizon and we got a whopping 40K!   Beats 3-4K any day!
>
> thanks,
> Andy
>
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On a job in California I used a USB wireless modem with my laptop that
had 10.04 on it. I was expecting a bit of a hassle but it was purely
plug-and-play; Network Manager showed me Verizon's network, I clicked
on it to connect. Done.

The USB device provided to me was Verizon's UM175, I don't know who
manufactures it or if it's the same as the ones previously mentioned.

>From there, you can definitely set up your laptop to share that
connection, though the setup for that will most likely be a bit more
involved than the above. Certainly doable though.

Chris