3g router advice please. I have a Three conection [closed]

Question

I have a Three contract and a Huawei E156g dongle conected to my desk top PC. living 5 1/2 miles from a base station I can only receive HSPDA using an external directional antenna to the RF coax socket in the dongle.

I wish to connect anther computer and a TV via ethernet cable so am thinking of routers and have found suitable ones for the present set up. Now I have been offered a faster dongle from Three and a bigger download alowance for the roughly the same price. My question is because I cannot find a router for the dongle offered(Huawei E367U.) This has the all important coax socket. So would it be possible to use a router that would accept just my SIM card and one that has an antenna socket?

Answer 1

I share a 3G USB dongle via a WinXP host and a regular wireless router. This requires the host to be on for internet connectivity, but is much cheaper than a dedicated router with chipset and carrier dependencies.

To do so, I connect the USB dongle to the host and share the connection via Network Connections -> right click on the 3G dialup connection -> Advanced tab -> Share connection. I then use an ethernet cable from the host's NIC to the router's upstream port.

Depending on how much you were planning on spending on a router, a cheap, low-power Atom desktop may be a more flexible alternative than your current workstation.