Random gibberish

Well I finally got fed up with the intermittent mobile signal in my house. NOTE, I don’t blame vodafone for a lack of signal – why people think they should automatically get a mobile signal indoors is beyond me.
However, I do rely on my mobile so I went and got one of these gateway thingys.
I’ve been reading online about how they can take like 24hr + to set themselves up. Hmmm, within 10 minutes of me registering the box all the lights are lit – now to try a test call.

I will be digging a bit more into how this works though. From what I can gather it uses an IPSEC connection to vodafone – ie a VPN. Now from my experimens IPSEC is a bitch when behind NAT, so how have vodafone achieved this – I’ll have to find out.

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So far I’m impressed. Very easy to set up – almost plug and go.
I now have a full 3G signal when sat on the couch – previously I was lucky if I got one bar of 2G signal and only then if I didn’t have the phone in my pocket.
I’ve made a test call – from the couch to swmbo in the kitchen. This previously would have been impossible. So I’ll class this box as well worth the £5 per month it is costing me.
OK, so it adds five quid to my monthly bill – bearing in mind that my mobile bill has reduced by £15 per month (now £30 where is was £45), and I’ve got more minutes and txt’s than I used to, I don’t begrudge spending another fiver.