[ILUG] Problems with Three Mobile-Broadband Router

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> I'm sure someone in O2's corporate data group told us about 
> the two APNs.  IIRC, the way they put it was "open.internet is 
> for when you need to connect to your mobile device" or something
> to that effect.

I couldn't be at all certain about this but I had heard that 3 Ireland have
two APNs

 3Ireland.ie:  not routable from outside
 3Internet:    routable from outside

As far as I understood it, the former is NATted so you /may/ see an RFC1918
IP address if you're on that.  That said, I think I've heard the former
referred to as "legacy" so it may not be around indefinitely.

At a very wild guess, lots of modern users will need to be routable for
"push" type services (Exchange?) to send data to the phone.

> Going from that statement to my above conclusions was the
> result of experiment, since trying to find the right person
> in O2 to talk about this was practically impossible.

Perhaps a similar experiment could be done if someone's interested on the 3
network.

Gavin