As of 12th of June 2008 Maxon Australia has launched the new exciting service maXwan.
MAXWAN is a powerful communications tool available to new and existing customers, wanting to add value to their telemetry applications, and provide additional data access and acquisition for their customers.

With MAXWAN, Maxon offers a fully managed wireless to wireless IPWAN, within the Telstra’s NextG network, including Authentication Servers, offering two-way IP connectivity and fixed IP addresses for a small annual fee.

click here for more information

Come and visit us at Wireless World 2008 that will take place at Sydney Convention Centre on the 2nd and 3rd of April 2008.
Stand no. 68  Register now for Free at http://www.wirelessworld2008.com/

Maxon Australia has released the Mac Leopard compatible driver, the driver is compatible with Mac 10.3.9 and above. Please read the installation guide for Mac before proceeding with the installation. We recommend that you upgrade your modem firmware to version 2.0.18. This can only be done on a windows machine.

You can access this upgrade here:

http://www.maxon.com.au/nextg_fw_upgrade.php

The upgrade also includes a vastly improved Telstra Turbo Modem(tm) Manager, which we recommend you upgrade to.

The Release Candidate (non-beta) version of the Mac OS software for our Next G modems has been delayed slightly due to the need to incorporate a firmware update client.  However it’s fast approaching completion, so while the final development and testing occurs, here’s a preview of some of it’s features:

• Significantly more stable than the BETA versions
• PIN unlock support
• Profile management
• Improved interface (with system bar icon and menu)
• Firmware update client
• Auto-software updates
• Supports multiple simultaneous modem connections

It’s looking good folks, shouldn’t be long now.  Once again, thank you for your patience!

Maxon Australia’s USB Docking Station (EtherMax) is finally available!

Providing routing/ethernet capabilities, this stylish unit facilitates sharing a Next G connection.

To purchase this unit directly, please visit our online store.

We’ll be updating the product page to include more technical information and pictures over the next few days.

Thank you all for your patience!

The awaited replacement for our industrial CDMA modem (the MM-5100) is finally available! The ModMax is a robust 3G HSDPA modem designed with telemetry applications in mid.

For further details, check out the ModMax product page.

After finding out that there will be no production at the factory Web/Thu/Fri this week (due to a public holiday), we’re expecting stock in hand by late next week.

While there has been a lack of news recently about the docking station development we haven’t forgotten it.

We are now in the final stages of production!  The firmware has been finalized, marketing decisions settled, design work complete.  We will possibly have stock of these units by Friday next week (3rd August), if not then early the week after.  We’ve decided to keep the branding we had from our CDMA days, so this unit will also be called EtherMax.
Once again, we are very grateful for your patience with us over this time.  The development took significantly longer than we had anticipated, and for this we apologize.

As a side note, we’re also revamping our online store (which is currently only used to sell external antennas), which will mean you will be able to purchase the EtherMaxes online in the very near future!

BigPond have released a firmware update for their USB Mobile Broadband modems.

More information is available here.