[MLB-WIRELESS] alphalink wireless

[Jamie Lovick]

Their carrier licence.

As a carrier, you have to manage all network units within your network,
which means hardware managed by someone else (you own hardware) is not
usable.

Regards

Jamie

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Matt Pearce wrote:
>
> What legal requirements ??
> 
> Matt.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Orton" <eric at mineralsprings.net.au>
> To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:05 PM
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] alphalink wireless
> 
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I contacted Alphalink asking about using my own equipment to connect to 
> > their network, and possible support for non Windows machines (I only 
> > have macs and PC's running FreeBSD ATM).
> > 
> > This was the response...
> > > Eric,
> > >
> > > I wish it was that simple.  Unfortunately, we are not able to use your 
> > > Hardware due to legal requirements.  The equipment that we use, has no 
> > > support for anything other than the Windows operating system.  We hope 
> > > that this will change in the near future, but have no dates at this 
> > > stage.
> > 
> > Looks like I may need to put Windows on a spare machine...  Or better 
> > yet, Linux.  Some quick googling shows it supports this wireless 
> > adaptor.
> > 
> > FWIW, from the support pages it looks like they run a VPN over the 
> > wireless connection 
> > (http://wireless.alphalink.com.au/onlinehelp/xp_vpn.stm) and the 
> > adaptors they use are Gigafast (Atmel) USB 
> > (http://wireless.alphalink.com.au/onlinehelp/cpe_util.stm).
> > 
> > Just in case I'm not the only other person interested in this 
> > information.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Eric
> > --
> > Eric Orton
> > Mineral Springs Online
> > Eric.Orton at mineralsprings.net.au
> > 
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