You can download a guide for setting up the Telstra Turbo Modem with Windows Vista here:

MiniMax Guide for Vista (PDF)

Please note, this will only work for the Telstra Turbo Modem drivers, not with the drivers provided by Bigpond..

You can download the TTM drivers from http://www.maxoncdma.com.au/news.php

I’ll be away on holidays over the next fornight, so Ashween will be keeping you up to speed on what’s happening.

This site’s domain has now been changed to www.maxon.com.au.

The url for the blog will change to www.maxon.com.au/3gblog.

Please update your bookmarks / feeds.

We expect to have a beta driver available for Mac OS tomorrow afternoon. Keep an eye on this space!

We’ve updated our estimated release dates for our remaining Next G modem based on our current development progress.

The updated release dates are as follows:

- Ethernet Docking station for MiniMax : March ‘07
- Industrial Modem : June ‘07
- Quad band (850/900/1900/2100mhz) compatible MiniMax : June ‘07
- Express Card Modem : TBA (the development of this modem will follow after the previous ones are complete

We have unfortunately had to delay the release dates of some of our produts. This is due to our desire to provide the product in a fully functional (and bug free!) state.

Thank you all for your patience!

Getting this device working on Mac OS has certainly been a hot topic. We’re working as fast as we can to get at least a beta of this available. We made significant progress over the weekend, finally removing the last of the major obstacles to actual connection with the modems.

We are in the process now of tidying up a couple of minor bugs (very minor!), and doing some code tidying up.

We will hopefully have a beta available VERY shortly.

I will post more details tomorrow (promise!), and will try to actually have a firm date at least for the beta release.

In order to give us an idea of how many people are subscribed to this blog, we’ve had to change the link to the FEED.

Please update your subscriptions to this url: http://maxoncdma.com.au/3gblog/rss.php

The old feed addresses will continue to work for a short time, but we will remove them soon.

My appologies for any inconvenience!

Quozl has done it again!

After providing a comprehensive guide to configuring our CDMA modems for use with Linux, Quozl has once again risen to the challenge and tested out Next G connectivity on Linux.

You can see Quozl’s guide here:

http://quozl.linux.org.au/bp3-usb/

Please note, neither we or BigPond provide official support for Linux, so you use the Next G modems on Linux at your own risk. There is some community based support available, but that is it.

We’ve had a fair few questions lately about Linux support for the Bigpond USB modems.  While we are not planning on providing official support for Linux (as we don’t have the resources), we are working with a Linux expert to be able to provide at least a rough guide to the possibilities.

We should hopefully have some news quite soon!  Please note though that Linux is not officially supported either by Telstra (BigPond), or Maxon Australia in any way, shape or form.

On friday last week we finally were able to connect a Next G MiniMax to the internet on Mac OS!  We ran some initial FTP and web tests, and were downloading between 1.4mbps (web) to 2.4mbps (ftp).

After much head banging, we finally ironed out the last bug in the connection.  It’s been a tough process, with the drivers being created by a Mac OS guru in the US, even though he didn’t actually have access to a live network to test on!

With the final tidying up of the code for the drivers to go, and the creation of a User Interface, we should only be a couple of weeks away from the release of the Mac OS support for MiniMax.

Thank you all for your patience so far.  We’re pleased that although it took a bit longer than expected, the final outcome will be a quality solution.