People that are lot en-route and need network access everywhere love the Swisscom Mobile Unlimited solution - a PC card(s) that support all major 3G data protocols (UMTS, EDGE, GPRS, WLAN) and automatically choose the best available network (nice when travelling by train) - and this for an acceptable flat price. One backdraw - the package is only available for Windows.

A little research shows that the Swisscom branded cards are from Option Wireless Technology - GlobeTrotter FUSION and GlobeTrotter COMBO EDGE. To bad - Option does not provide Mac drivers. They though provide a link to a German company nova media in the FAQ. Nova media provide a software package to use GlobeTrotter PC cards with Mac OS X, but the versions without the WLAN support (fair enough - most Apple Notebooks have WLAN built-in by default).

I couldn't yet find out for certain if the Mobile High Speed 3G for Mac OS X package is able to on-the-fly switch to the best protocol. Looking at the screenshots in the Online Manual tells me it does not.

Read the article about Mobile Unlimited in The Register.

Posted by Cedric on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 10/23/2005 02:21:00 AM | Permalink