What are the odds? You come home drunk, trying to find a cable next to the bed in the dark, and manage to pull the cord to my small drill for drilling PCBs. It falls off the table next to the bed and goes right into my Asus eeepc that’s on the floor. And it actually sits embedded in the back of the screen. After pulling the drillbit out of the computer I started the eeepc and it still works! This is taking the term hacking a computer to a new level…
After getting a 3G connection on my new toy, I noticed that connecting to a site when browsing the web could take a long time, but as soon as it gets to the page it’s fast. Typical behavior of a slow DNS server. So after changing my /etc/resolv.conf file to use the OpenDNS servers instead, the increase in speed is incredible!
The eee PC use resolvconfig, so to make the changes permanent you need to go to the directory
sudo pico /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base
Add these two lines:
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
to the file and save.
My guess is that Tre has a lot of customers that gets annoyed of the slow speed, and all the provider needs to do is to upgrade their dns servers. Or maybe tip their customer of a better alternative. Go figure…
I just got my Asus eee pc 900 from Taiwan. Here’s a quick tip for other users of tre.se 3G wireless broadband. When connecting the Huwei USB modem, the Asus Mobile Phone tool automatically starts. But the supplied carriers are only for Taiwan. Select Chungwa and select “Others”. Enter bredband.tre.se in the field. Save the settings and your up and running!
Update: There’s actually an option to select tre.se when creating a new connection.
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