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.

• 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!

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!

More information is available here.

If you’re a BigPond customer, you can download the updated BigPond software from here.

If you’re a Telstra Turbo Modem user, we have updated drivers for you, however the full connection manager still does not work with Vista.  We’ve completely redesigned the Modem Manager from the ground up, so once that’s available you will be able to use the connection manager in Vista.  In the mean time, you can download the updated drivers and installation guide from here.

There are a couple of outstanding areas we have been working for the MiniMax:

Firstly, the next software update. This will include software, drivers and firmware updates for the modem. This will fix a number of bugs, and increase the stability of the modem. The new drivers will also work properly with all versions of Windows XP (including media center edition), and 32bit versions of Windows Vista. They also resolve issues to do with limited user accounts not being able to access/use the modem software. This update will hopefully be available within a few weeks, pending Telstra approval (the drivers have received WHQL certification).

Secondly, the next release for Mac OS. We’ve been working on a comprehensive interface (with some quite pretty usage reporting) as well as fixes for a couple of outstanding bugs. It’s been one of these bugs that has been our biggest bane, proving to be extremly tricky to track down (even with help from Apple’s development team). At this stage we’re still working on a fix for it, without an ETA. If you are experiencing problems with our current Beta (where the modem is not detected), make sure you are connecting the modem with the supplied USB cable. In our testing this has removed the issue by about 98%.
The ModMax has also been progressing rapidly. It is now in with Telstra undergoing the approval process. It’s proved to be a very interesting process, learning the differences and similarities from the CDMA days. Packet switched data is significantly faster, however circuit switched data peaks at 9.6bps, slower than CDMA. We’ll have more information on the ModMax over coming weeks.

The docking station has also been receiving a fair bit of attention. There’s still work to do on it, but most testing at this stage is going quite favorably, which is a good indicator of a close release.

If you have registered your interest on our Mac OS mailling list you will have already received notification of this release.

http://www.maxon.com.au/udrivers/MaxonHSDPA_v1.0b2.10.4.dmg – For Mac OS X v 10.4 (we recommend 10.4.9)

http://www.maxon.com.au/udrivers/MaxonHSDPA_v1.0b2.10.3.dmg – For Mac OS X v 10.3.9 (you must have 10.3.9 earlier versions are not supported)

Installation instructions and userguide are included in the dmg file.

This Beta will allow you to change the APN, and will work for both BigPond and Telstra users (although we encourage BigPond customers to use BigPond’s Beta software available here).

A final GUI is not too far away, with significantly extended features (such as allowing international roaming, PIN management and data/time counters).

I won’t promise when it will be released, but we’ll be flogging it as hard as we can today.