Woosh Wireless (formerly WalkerWireless) have licensed some of the frequency spectrum off the Government to offer cellphone-style always on, mobile BroadBand in NewZealand.
They're just starting in Auckland, Hamilton, and Christchurch and their pricing is reasonable. Watch this space. Anyone on the service, please comment.
Hah! I looked into getting WalkerWireless when I first arrived in Hamilton in 2000. They've been claiming that they will extend coverage to Hamilton in the near future for as long as I've been here. Don't hold your breath. -- JohnMcPherson
They do own 3G frequencies now, and are partnered with Vodafone, so they're a bit more than all talk and nothing but 802.11b -- 
CraigBox
Do you live in Mission Bay? 'Cause if you do, you can't get it.
There have been 
reports of high latency on woosh wireless. This makes it unsuitable for online games or anything that requires low latency, like voice over ip.
In June 2004, Woosh were replaced for the 3 regions it had won the tender for in the Project Probe broadband initiative when it became obvious that they would be unable to fulfill the contract.
These modems speak PPPoE. The following instructions are for Debian Woody.
apt-get install pppoe
Edit /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider, make sure you have the following lines
user "foo@woosh.co.nz" # if you're using an interface other than eth0 substitute it below pty "/usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 -m 1452" noipdefault # Comment out if you already have the correct default route installed defaultroute hide-password lcp-echo-interval 60 lcp-echo-failure 3 # Override any connect script that may have been set in /etc/ppp/options. connect /bin/true noauth persist demand mtu 1492
In /etc/ppp/chap-secrets you need a line like
"foo@woosh.co.nz" * "foopassword"
Then run
pon dsl-provider
And you should be away.
For this to work you almost certainly need a recent 2.6 kernel with ipw either available as a module or compiled into the kernel. This works out of the box with Ubuntu Hoary, just plug it in and you will see in dmesg the ipw driver loaded. It'll allocate you a usb tty:
Jun 16 10:34:49 localhost kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: wakeup Jun 16 10:34:49 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5 Jun 16 10:34:50 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices Jun 16 10:34:50 localhost kernel: ipwtty 2-3:1.0: IPWireless converter converter detected Jun 16 10:34:50 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: IPWireless converter converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Create a ppp peer for woosh, by creating the file /etc/ppp/peers/woosh:
noipdefault /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 defaultroute usepeerdns lcp-echo-interval 60 lcp-echo-failure 3 connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/woosh" noauth persist mtu 1400 user "username@woosh.co.nz" maxfail 0 deflate 15
Create the chat script /etc/chatscripts/woosh:
TIMEOUT 30 ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "BUSY" ECHO ON SAY "Dialling w00sh...\n" "" \rAT "OK-+++\c-OK" ATH0 OK ATZ OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"PPP","woosh.co.nz","username@woosh.co.nz,foobar",0,0 OK ATD*99# SAY "Waiting up to 30 seconds for connection ... " CONNECT "" SAY "Connected..."
Note the double handling of the username/password, both in the chat script and in chap. This is almost certainly unnescessary but seems to simulate the Windows ipw software configuring the modem. You can probably get away with putting garbage in the chat script.
Make an entry to chap-secrets as above with your username and pass.
username@woosh.co.nz * pass *
Then use pon to initiate the connection
pon woosh
These notes came from the original author of ipw, r0dent heavy industries.
2 pages link to WooshWireless:
