3G portable hotspot

another cool gadget, plug in your broadband SIM card and you have instant portable hotspot/WiFi for up to 5 users. this device is battery operated, rechargable battery for up to 4 hours.

Huawei MiFi...cool gadget

Soon, you won't need USB 3 modem or wifi router, this MiFi will give you both 3G modem and Wifi in one small tiny MiFi, and it is battery operated up to 3 hours.

Meaning you can easily sharing your high speed 3G connection over portable wifi to limited person, e.g up to 5 users.

Dovado UMR - multifunction Router for USB 3G or WAN

Initial comment: great
Installation: straight forward
Performance: great
Coverage: great
Upgradeability: good
Remote control function: good
SMS function over HTTP/web client: good

Admin address: 192.168.0.1
Login: admin

Useful USSD command summary for Qtel

What is USSD?

To make it simple, it is a command for your mobile phone that start with * or # and ends with #

in Qtel here's some useful USSD command:

Prepaid Hala Balance Query: *129# and press YES

Prepaid Hala Reload credit: *127*Secret Codes# and press YES

Credit transfer to other prepaid from Hala prepaid/postpaid Shahry users: *130*Destination mobile number*money value in Qatar Rial# and press YES

Please call 111 to activate your credit transfer feature from your Shahry postpaid and also BEWARE of fraud.

Some person receiveing an SMS instructing to do *130*YYY*VV# with no awareness of this USSD command and her Hala credit just vanished to another person!!!

USSD Menu Browser: *100# and press YES, new menu will pop-up from your phone screen

3G USB modem HUaiwe E176

Huawei also comes with 3G modem with micro SD card.

If you have old E220 installed in your computer, make sure to uninstalled it before installed this E176 as it may conflicted.

I like the data statistic menu in the dashboard, looks complete and easy to read with graphview as well.

Bandluxe C270

Bandluxe 3G USB dongle soon will be available in the market, with plastic and diamond shaped.

If you take this one, make sure you setting are correct.
Please check from your connection profile/setting, and make sure for Qtel the setting are:
APN: web.qtel
User name: (empty)
Password: (empty)
Dial access number: *99#

What I like much about this 3G modem is the function on importing your MS Outlook contact/phone book to send SMS.

Device installer can be better compare to other brand and radio performance also good.
This model also has SD card slot, so it can be functioned as flash disk too.
Expected price in Qatar market around QR 530/unit from the importer.

Problem with Airport Macbook using OSX Tiger 10.5.4

If you are using Mac OSX 10.5.4 and setting up your home wireless network and facing problem with joining your wireless network while your SSID and Authentication using WEP, 64 bit, open, try to add "0x" in  before your existing wireless password.

For example, if you set your wireless password "a0b1c2d3e4"

To set your airport for Mac OSX Tiger its become: "0xa0b1c2d3e4"

It will just work perfectly!