gizmodo.com — "Hardware hacking genius and electromagician JKK has published a video tutorial showing how to add an internal 3G HSDPA card to the Asus Eee PC, allowing you to connect to the Internet from anywhere in the world. We talked with JKK and according to him "the hack is doable by any amateur with a solder iron." The price is quite affordable too.
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bossm4nDec 28, 2007
This is a nice mod, but an absolutely horrible, unwatchable video. It's more like 12 minutes of mumbling about using the card to connect than it is about the actual mod. In fact he doesn't start talking about the mod itself until about 6:50 in. Even so, he never shows the card being installed into the laptop, only removing the card from it's original case and taking off the unnecessary parts.
Closed AccountDec 28, 2007
wonderful fabulous ideaterrible video (please, for tech howtos, stop making videos. 9 times out of 10 text with pictures (and screenshots! not a camera pic of the screen...) is easier to follow)
dddavinnnDec 28, 2007
Has anyone discovered how to connect a Windows Mobile PDA phone (such as a Treo) to use it as a modem on the Linux OS of the Eee PC? It would work just as well as this without all of the soldering.
kaptk2Dec 30, 2007
I use a program called USBModem and a PPP connection. I just connect my Treo 650 to usb port and run a PPP script. All very easy. I am using Ubuntu on the Eee PC. I am sure that it would work with a Window Mobile version as well.
s1mph0ny_Dec 30, 2007
Do not want!
s1mph0ny_Dec 30, 2007
Just don't heat that point too high, hold the iron on it too long, let the iron slip and cut all the traces on the pcb. Piece of cake.
s1mph0ny_Dec 30, 2007
Laptops have been bottlenecked by their hard drives for some time. Whenever flash drives come down in price it might be worth upgrading from my p3 notebook.