[lug] Broadband in Eastern/Rural Boulder County?

[Nate Duehr]

Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:

> Looks like we are left with Sprint Mobile Broadband, 3G, so nice and fast,
> $70/month, so not too expensive, but with a 5GB/month transfer limit, okay
> for web surfing and email. The tricky part is that I need to share such a
> link with multiple computers in the house. Looks like the Sierra Wireless
> USB dongles have Linux drivers, so I should be able to whip up a Linux box
> firewall/router. Anyone have any experience in sharing a cellular
> connection with a network? Any recommended hardware? Thanks!

There are little routers out there (relatively cheap) that you put an 
EVDO Rev A (Sprint's high speed cellular is EVDO) card into and then 
they then distribute to PCs in the area via 802.11 b/g(/n?).

The thing to look out for is that all the cellular carriers have some 
pretty heavy language in their "acceptable use" clauses about amount of 
bandwidth allowed.

Whether or not they're enforcing the rules seems to be a crap shoot. 
Some are worse than others.

I wouldn't set your parents up with their own bittorrent server.  :-)

Nate