iBurst on trial

This post is coming to you sans-wires. No, it’s not WiFi, but iBurst. Personal Broadband Australia have sent me one of their wireless internet cards to trial. In theory I can travel to most parts of metro Sydney and stay connected at 1.0 Mbps down to 0.25 Mbps. Installation was easy - it just slides into the side of my notebook - and the associated software requires no brain cycles. The only minor issue was a problem with the password they supplied. After 5 mins with tech support I am away.

I’ve done all the obvious stuff like check email and watch a few videos like those at www.jibjab.com (if you’re doing a test you might as well watch something funny).

So far so good. Although I must admit it doesn’t feel very cool to be using this from the comfort of my office desk given that there’s an ethernet cable here wondering what just happened. Next stop is the classic in-car and in-train connection tests.