On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 09:31 -0500, Barnaby Astles wrote:
Has any one here taken a look at building a BTS?
At work we are contempating about changing the drivers to existing hardware. (or more precisly: having them changed)
People are looking at the huawei GSM dongles. Normally they are used to act as an gsm-modem, but the idea is to use existing usb-dongle, that should be able to act as a femto-basestation for people with a normal handheld/blackberry within one meter distance.
My first reaction was one of sceptism, but according to the people of huwei it is do-able, no hardware changes needed, just some (major) software rewrite.
Even if it only doing 1 meter radius coverage, _if_ it succeeds it woud be wonderful, as those dongles costs about 60 euro's.
hw