HOWTO: NextG over LAN w/ SmoothWall
As mentioned before in Next G over LAN my phone line has a high signal attenuation, too high for me to get ADSL. Essentially this means there is too much copper cable between the exchange and my house. I need some form of broadband at home so I turned to wireless. The 3G HSDPA networks provide the speed I need, and the UTMS 850Mhz network from Telstra (i.e. Next G) has coverage for where I live. So I’m using Next G for home internet.
Recently there have been several questions how I got this working. This post goes through the steps in more detail. In fact I reinstalled SmoothWall myself last night to upgrade to the official version 3.0 release so I wrote this as I went.
UPDATE JUNE 2009: See comments about using the “Option Driver” instead of Airprime – Airprime is, since 2.6.27, deprecated. The Option Driver does not require patching. Read more…