Wireless usage

I have a wireless router at home that allows me to access the internet. And depending where I am at outside my home, my Macbook can hook up to a wireless network. But is there a device I can plug into my computer that allows me to use the internet even if I can't connect to a network? I thought I saw someone with a Macbook and had a device that might have allowed her to access the ATT Edge network?
I'm going to have to be in a building that will have no possibility of being able to access routers for networks (a U.S. courthouse). But I still would like to have internet access with my laptop.
What are my choices here?
Thanks!
Lindsay

Lindsay,
There are basically two ways to access the internet using cell phone technology. First, one can use a dedicated "connection card" from one of the cellular providers. There are Expresscard-34 connection cards, and there are USB connection cards. Choose your poison. You must first subscribe to a carrier's data plan, and pay for the card. The unlimited-usage plans run $60/month if used in conjunction with a voice plan from that carrier, and $80/month without a voice plan.
Another method s to use your cell phone as a modem, connected to your Mac either via USB or Bluetooth. This requires a phone that will be capable of making the various connections (including the data connection to the carrier). For example, I use my Samsung A900M on Sprint's network for a broadband connection. The benefit, for me, in using my phone as a modem is that the unlimited "phone-as-modem" data plan from Sprint is only $40/month (in addition to my voice plan, of course).
But, all this may be moot for you. These connection cards represent a cellular connection, and if I am not mistaken, any cellular devices are banned in Federal courthouses. In fact, I am not certain that laptop computers wouldn't also be banned. Before you decide to pay for a plan and a device, I recommend you insure anything you get isn't forbidden in the courthouse.
Scott

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Summer vacation means more time for the youngest customers who use Verizon Wireless phones to send and receive messages, download and use apps and games, surf the Web, and make calls on their cell phones. But, with a few tools from Verizon Wireless, summertime doesn’t have to mean unexpected high wireless bills.
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I have been a business customer of Verizon Wireless for many years. I also switched my wife over to Verizon about 18 months ago. We are now considering adding a phone for our 13 year old who is entering Jr High in the fall. Initially, we thought that we would be able to do this by adding a phone to our family plan and enabling the usage controls to manage his voice and text usage. Fortunately, I took the time to read the fine print on this $4.99 "service" as well as the nightmare experiences of many other customers before adding a new 2 year contract to our service and will NOT be adding a line to our account for any of our children until Verizon offers a more effective set of usage controls.
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2) Set AND ENFORCE limits on the number of text messages sent and/or received. As with the voice minutes, I would expect at minimum for this to be a monthly amount, but weekly or daily limits would be much better. Again, by enforce this means that the phone should AUTOMATICALLY stop allowing sending or receiving of text messages when the limit is reached - regardless of the plan or whether it is an in-network or out-of-network message. I should be able to control whether numbers on the trusted list are also trusted for text messages after the limit is reached.
3) Set AND ENFORCE limits on the time of day when the phone is used for calls, text messages, and/or data. This schedule needs to be flexible enough to allow variations by day of the week and time of day. For example, a typical schedule might look like block all calls from 10pm-7am 7 days a week; block all calls from 9am-3pm M- F and block all calls from 6-7 pm M-F. By enforce, I mean that, all calls and or texts should be blocked during the restricted times - regardless of the plan or whether it is in-network or out-of-network. In addition, this includes dropping calls in progress when the restricted time is entered. Calls and or texts to and from trusted numbers should be excepted.
I am not a cellular network engineer, but I have worked with phones and phone networks long enough to be highly confident that these things can be accomplished with the current technology. In fact most of them are already available in one form or another to the carriers. For instance, Verizon has no problem in stopping a phone on a pre-paid plan from making or receiving calls or sending and receiving text messages when their allowance is reached. Nor do they have any problem in allowing that same phone to make or receive calls or send or receive text messages from Verizon wireless (i.e.. trusted numbers) even after the limit is reached.
My need here AS A PARENT is not only to ensure that my child is using their phone in a way that does not interfere with their education, growth and development, but also to help them learn to responsibly manage their usage.
My need here AS THE ACCOUNT OWNER is to ensure that my child does not engage in usage that will result in excessive charges and require me to terminate their use.
I would like it if these features were available at no additional charge, but I would not be opposed to paying a small (i.e.. less than $5) additional monthly fee to add them to selected lines.
I'm sure that there will be some individuals who will argue that I am trying to impose un-reasonable limits on how my children use 'their' phone. They are of course entitled to their opinion and may raise their children as they see fit so I won't waste my time arguing with them. I on the other hand do not choose to abdicate my responsibility as a parent and consider this to be a vital part of that responsibility. I consider this technology to be a valuable resource and wish to allow my children to use it to its maximum potential within the limits I, as their parent, believe are necessary for their safe growth and development.
I don't know how closely Verizon monitors these forums, but I hope they take note of my comments as I will NOT be adding a line to our plan for any of our kids until features that meet our requirements are in place. I would also hope that other parents - especially those who have been considering adding a line to their plan for their kids - would add their comments here. Perhaps if we make enough noise - both online and with our checkbooks - someone at Verizon will wake up to the fact that we need some real usage controls.

@Kevin
The new upgraded usage controls do just what you ask, go have a look. They added voice call stops last week.
so the time restrictions and limit controls will now function as you desired:
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Monitor and track your family’s wireless usage – Don’t wait for your monthly statement to see how many messages your children are sending – check the numbers anytime through My Verizon. Available online and on Verizon Wireless handsets, My Verizon provides 24/7 access to all billing, payment and account-related information, including usage amounts.
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What can I do to stop high network usage when a Samba share is mounted?

Ok, so i've done a lot of googling on this, but i've not really found any conclusive answers.
Basically, when I mount a samba share from another machine, Lion goes crazy. I can see from iStat menus that network (wireless) usage varies wildly from 300KB/s, right up to 6/7 MB/s, but my cpu usage doesn't spike at all. When this is happening the laptop is almost unusable, clicking something can take 30 seconds for a response. I'm presuming that this is something to do with Spotlight trying to index the share, but as it's several terabytes in size, it never completes. I've left the laptop on overnight in the hope that whatever process is causing this would finish, but to no avail. I've also placed the share in the Privacy tab in Spotlight's preferences, and used mdutil -i to stop it accessing the volume, but with no luck.
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Incidentally, the same thing happens with my wireless printer and this laptop - will randomly lose connection and be unable to print even though the other laptop can print just fine. This leads me to believe it is a problem with the laptop and not the TC or router.
Desperate to find a solution.
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Connect to TC by ethernet from any computer. Reset to defaults. ie hold in reset and wait until led flashes rapidly.. about 10sec.
Then redo the setup. Use manual wireless settings.. set a different name to 5ghz.. so bands cannot swap at the client end. Set channels manually not auto.. pick the clearest ones for your area.. you can just trial and error it using channels 1, 6 and 11 or download a utility for the Mac to scan wireless usage.. !

Edimax rt73 based usb wireless stick locks pc with 2.6.26 kernel

I'm new around here so if wrong forum or anything else, apologies.
This is more a kernel issue rather than Archlinux as, just coming from Debian Sid, I had problems with this stick since kernel 2.6.24
Rob
uname:
Linux myhost 2.6.26-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 26 20:53:58 UTC 2008 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
lsusb -v |grep Ralink :
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp.
idVendor 0x148f Ralink Technology, Corp.
iManufacturer 1 Ralink
Workaround: (requires other network access to get rt73 legacy driver from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads )
Remove stick and power off/on pc.
Blacklist kernel ralink modules via rc.conf (!rt2500usb !rt2x00lib !rt2x00usb !rt73usb)
Build legacy driver
modprobe rt73
Extract from /var/log/kernel.log:
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost Call Trace:
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffffa017adac>] ? :rt2x00lib:rt2x00lib_remove_dev+0x3c/0x70
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffffa017aede>] ? :rt2x00lib:rt2x00lib_probe_dev+0xfe/0x3d0
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff802a16e2>] ? __kmalloc+0xc2/0x130
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffffa0183350>] ? :rt2x00usb:rt2x00usb_probe+0x110/0x190
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffffa006fecd>] ? :usbcore:usb_probe_interface+0xdd/0x160
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803b0dfe>] ? driver_probe_device+0x9e/0x1d0
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803b0fc0>] ? __device_attach+0x0/0x10
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803b024b>] ? bus_for_each_drv+0x5b/0x80
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803b1098>] ? device_attach+0x88/0x90
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803afff5>] ? bus_attach_device+0x55/0xa0
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803aed18>] ? device_add+0x548/0x620
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffffa006eb08>] ? :usbcore:usb_set_configuration+0x478/0x600
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff802ff38d>] ? sysfs_find_dirent+0x2d/0x40
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffffa0077783>] ? :usbcore:generic_probe+0x33/0xb0
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803b0dfe>] ? driver_probe_device+0x9e/0x1d0
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803b0fc0>] ? __device_attach+0x0/0x10
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803b024b>] ? bus_for_each_drv+0x5b/0x80
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803b1098>] ? device_attach+0x88/0x90
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803afff5>] ? bus_attach_device+0x55/0xa0
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff803aed18>] ? device_add+0x548/0x620
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffffa00683c7>] ? :usbcore:usb_new_device+0x67/0xc0
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffffa00694c2>] ? :usbcore:hub_thread+0x6a2/0x1250
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff802550d7>] ? hrtimer_start+0xe7/0x200
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff80251730>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffffa0068e20>] ? :usbcore:hub_thread+0x0/0x1250
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff80251377>] ? kthread+0x47/0x90
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff802374d7>] ? schedule_tail+0x27/0x60
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff8020d628>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x12
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff80251330>] ? kthread+0x0/0x90
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost [<ffffffff8020d61e>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x12
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost Code: 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 c7 20 e9 b7 1d fe ff 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 41 54 48 c7 c0 b8 60 57 80 49 89 fc 55 48 c7 c5 c0 60 57 80 53 <8b> 4f 20 85 c9 48 0f 45 e8 48 89 ef e8 6a 54 0e 00 83 f8 0f 89
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost RIP [<ffffffff8024d695>] flush_workqueue+0x15/0x60
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost RSP <ffff81007e9819d0>
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost CR2: 0000000000000020
Sep 3 09:13:00 myhost ---[ end trace f8105d1fdee815f0 ]---

byte wrote:About the performance, well, I didn't test real-world wireless usage with the stick yet. Only verified that the drivers were ok and that it could see some networks.
under ubuntu, the rt73usb kernel driver was unsuable for me, it froze every 5 minutes, requiering either a network restart, or a complete system reboot. rt73 worked ok, but quite gruesome to automate.
under arch, the rt73usb works much better, but still i get the ocassional network lockup, which gets fixed by restarting the network (/etc/rc.d/net-auto restart).
i built rt73 legacy but no matter what i did, the firmware was claimed missing, even if it actually was there (/lib/firmware/rt73.bin exists)
i wonder, why the need to blacklist rt2500usb? does the module conflict with rt73usb?

Self assigned IP : still no bug fix ?

I have a problem for a long time with my Time Capsule. I use an ADSL modem and router (from Free French ADSL Provider) and my TC is plugged on it and set to "Bridge" mode.
I have many devices wired and wireless on the TC. But I have a big problem, sometimes (not all the time), my MacBook is getting a "169.254.x.x" IP address, a self assigned IP.
That's weird because sometimes it works well from 6 AM to 7 PM for example, then at 7 PM it doesn't work anymore. There is no reason why, because I haven't touch anything in my network.
It's pretty annoying. Is Apple aware of this problem ? Can we hope a fix soon ? I had many problems with the WIFI on my Mac (before, it was the "wake up" WIFI problem but it seems to be fixed in the last Lion update).
I've tried everything, reset all (TC, Macbook etc.), sometimes it works a day, the other day it's not
Thanks

7pm sounds too specific to me.. get a wifi analysing software, kismet on the mac but inssider on a pc is a better utility. Locate all the wireless around you and what channels are used. I would say you are being swamped by higher intensity wireless than the TC can produce.
Go into the wireless setup and change over to manual settings.. set to N wireless.. and set to manual channels.
In 2.4ghz try 1, 6, 11.. but pick whatever is the lowest usage from your survey of wireless usage.
Also try and use 5ghz as it has less interference. When you are bridged, the IP address is derived from the modem and not the TC so the issue can be there.. try setting dhcp to fixed for the MAC address of each wireless. and set the lease to very short.. 30min or even try 10min.
There certainly are issues with Lion networking.. exactly what is hard to figure out.. but you can also try the TC with earlier firmware.. go back to 7.5.2 which was much more reliable than later ones.
You can also try it in router mode putting the modem in bridge if the ISP supports PPPoE.. or use DMZ with the modem still doing routing. The TC will kick up a double NAT error but just select to ignore it. Sometimes it will work better in router mode.

Best configuration to extend wifi with Time Capsule & Airport Express

In my house I have a Fritzbox wifi router on the ground floor as my primary internet access. I have an ethernet cable going to the 3rd floor study where the Fritzbox signal is relatively weak. I purchased a Time Capsule as a backup device, but also wanted to extend the Fritzbox wifi network by plugging the ethernet cable in to the TC. I was not successful in extending the network, so I had to create a new network. When moving from downstairs to upstairs, my iphone keeps the connection to the (now weak) wifi network and I have to manually change to the (stronger) TC wifi network.
Additionally, I used to be able to successfully extend the downstairs wifi using my Airport Express (and also managed to have my speakers plugged into this for wireless usage), but do not want to additionally complicate my set-up.
So, what is the best way to connect the following equipment, ideally with the same network name, to ensure I always use the strongrst signal automatically:
Third floor:          iMac,    Macbook,   Time Capsule, Airport Express
          Ethernet cable from ground floor to 3rd floor
Ground floor:     Fritzbox wifi connected to internet

You must configure the Bridge Mode setting as the very last step before you Update the settings, otherwise the setting will change automatically.
In other words, you can change the setting to Bridge Mode, but if you make any other changes before you click Update, the Bridge Mode setting will not take effect.
Or, if you see any error messages about DHCP conflicts or Double NAT....the AirPort is not in Bridge Mode...even though you might think it is. Check the settings again.
will I still be able to set up an additional 5GHz network in parallel?
Yes

My dial up connection has become even more painfully slow lately

My iBook has OK speed when I go online using a wireless connection away from home, but at home where I have no wireless options (in the country, barely on the grid), dial up has become painfully, maddeningly SLOW. Many pages take 2-3 or even 5 minutes to load. ARGH!!
I use Firefox 3.0.6 for my browser and att worldnet is my ISP.
Have pages and online applications just gotten too big recently to use dial up? Is there some way I can check my actual modem speed? Help please!

Hi lisalupa and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Dialup is certainly the slowest internet experience possible and maybe your wireless usage has spoiled you.
You can check you connection speed using the Activity Monitor on your Mac. It is located in Applications / Utilities. You will need to click on the Network tab to view the traffic flow, and that will only show if it is working, with nothing showing once a page has loaded.
Also send your ISP an email, (or check out their website) and ask them what are the speeds one can normally expect for the dial up service you have.
Finally, whilst this may sound counter-intuitive, but emptying your browser's cache could speed things up if it hasn't been emptied for over a month. Otherwise keeping the cache in place should make things quicker if you are returning to a page previously visited.

WCS Reports

I've been asked to create a report that shows the wireless usage of certain clients. The reports that I have tried so far have just given me the the time they connected and the time they disconnected. Is there a way to create a report that shows how much tx and rx data a client is creating? I tried the busiest clients report but, I'm looking to get a report of some specific clients that are not even close to the busiest clients. We are trying to make a business case for some specific devices.
thanks, Pat.

Hi,
did you try going to "monitor->clients", finding the specific client(s) you like. On that client you select "session report", from there you customize content to include tx and rx in bytes or packets sent/received and you run the report ?
This is the way to do for clients 1 by 1. Alternatively you can run reports for all clients and export to CSV and from there select only the clients you want but I don't think there is a "multiple clients" selection directly on the WCS
Nicolas
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Just purchased an hp all in one and I can't download software called apple and they suggested either epson or canon as hp always causes trouble to mac's can anyone suggest a good ebson or canon all in one.

I just purchased an HP All-In-One and when I went to download software it said my Mac didnt support it to contact HP. When I contacted HP they wanted me to pay to set up my computer so the machine would work. I contacted Apple and the agent told me to take it back and get either Epson or Canon as HP is not always Mac friendly can anyone suggest a good Epson or Canon All In One. Thanks for your help..this HP is going back.

You will probably value these features:
1. Decent speed
2. Reliability
3. Low cost of operation
4. Wireless usage
5. Strong printing quality
Epson withdraw support for my old printer, so I've stayed with Canon - who regularly updates its drivers. The Canon MX 892 has been getting strong reviews for print quality, speed, and special features. Refills, through a third-party vendor, can be very reasonable; so the liberal use of ink probably won't be a major concern (unless you choose to stay with the Canon-branded ink). Price is as low as $139, new, and about $100 used.

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