Huawei E220 GSM modem with Telia

Since I got to play around with the Huawei E270 last time I've had a the smaller brother from Huawei the E220 from Telia.

However this time around it was a bit more tricky to get it working correctly. Unless the modem is plugged in during boot I have to use the small huaweiAktBbo.c hack to get the ttyUSB devices working correctly. I'm not completely sure why but this wasn't needed last time around.

I used a setup similar to the 3 modem just using the APN www.internet.mtelia.dk (3 was data.tre.dk) and the dialed number *99# (3 was *99***1#).

Since I tested download speed last time I retried the test:

wget http://ftp.ing.umu.se/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2008.0_beta2/installcd/install-x86-minimal-2008.0_beta2.iso -O /dev/null
--2008-05-25 18:59:17-- http://ftp.ing.umu.se/linux/gentoo/releases/x86/2008.0_beta2/installcd/install-x86-minimal-2008.0_beta2.iso
Resolving ftp.ing.umu.se... 130.239.117.84
Connecting to ftp.ing.umu.se|130.239.117.84|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 62447616 (60M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[====================================================================>] 62,447,616 174K/s in 5m 59s

2008-05-25 19:05:19 (170 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [62447616/62447616]

With the modem from 3 I downloaded beta1 from the same mirror in just 2m 22s which is almost three times faster than with Telia.

For comparison I tried the same download with my ADSL2 connection from Fullrate and it took just 31 seconds :)