Comments on: D100 Router tech specs

By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:43:01 +0000

Kurt,

I work for VHA (ex-H3GA) That’s “3″ Australia. The D100 is simply put a simple modem/router peripheral that is designed purely to enable multiple users the access do one single 3 mobile braodband device. If you after a fully decked out high features 3G Router then i suggest you should rethink your decision and spend the extra coin on a as above mentioned “Belkin, Netgear and others “.

The D100 is purely made as a cheaper allternative for people whoreally don’t want or need the functionality your asking for. This is why the pricing is so different, here it’s AUD $169(D100) vs. AUD $250+(high featured).

The cost of manufacturing software to suit these extra features would make the modem’s price very similar to those others that as current are not really in direct competition.

Simply, spend the coin, get what will suit you.

Cheers, Gav

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:18:50 +0000

The D100 has been out for quite some time now, but searching the net for info on its fw/routing abilities is rather disappointing. Was some months ago into a Telco store having them and asked to see manual, and it was some 4-6 page multilingual A5 booklet, not even a real manual. Doesn’t Huawei want to sell this thing?

Above it is mentioned that there is some FW switch, and thats more than even mentioned at the wiki http://nuwiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Huawei/D100 , that actually do have disassembled a D100. Is there no-one having real data on this beast?

Can one use other Private IP ranges than 192.168.0.0 in the DHCP ? Also, what DNS capability does it have? Can one use a Dynamic DNS with it? Is it only a NAT FW or do it have some for for stateful inspection apps FW? At a size little larger than a smartphone, but with a weight 2-4 times those and no batteries, it is hardly a portable FW, so it should support basic LAN FW functions, so you could place it on a network you have a NAS on, not being afraid of someone reaching it.

In todays LAN’s, if relying on PCs FW, then Huawei made a huge mistake, particular when Belkin, Netgear and others now comes with standard broadband 3g gateways. Its then far to pricey when compared to those, based on available information.

Anyone toyed with it, knowing more of its FW/DHCP/DNS capacities? Size is right for me, but the functional limitations makes me reluctant buying.

Cheers

By: rafiq

rafiq — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:46:50 +0000

how can i limit users of the wifi? seem that there’s no means to set this up. just plug the dongle, plug the p/s and you’re online.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:29:54 +0000

Does anyone know why my D100 Router is losing it’s configuration? The first few days were ok but when I have been downloading and say it timed out the router loses it’s configuration settings.

It seems ok if the download is successful just when there is an error on the download.

Any help on which settings could prevent this would be apprecaited.

By: Roland

Roland — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:29:22 +0000

The D100 will work with the following 3UK Huawei modems: E220, E156, E160, E169. It does not work with the XTE modems.
My 3Store was selling the XTE modem, we (the manager and myself) got around this by buying the XTE modem and router together and then doing a modem exchange…

By: swing

swing — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:06:11 +0000

It can be bought without a contract, but stocks are limited, and it’s not available online at all, so you’ll need to head to a 3Store to see if they still have stock. It doesn’t work with all 3 Modems, especially the current range.

By: nem

nem — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:44:53 +0000

do you have to take out a contract or can you buy it on its own thanks

By: numinoR

numinoR — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:11:43 +0000

I got myself one of these free with the 3 £15 for 15gb/month contract…

It has a firewall (or at least there is a firewall switch in the control panel), but I don’t know exactly what it does I also havent found any options for opening ports etc, but have had no problems in any protocols… news://, ftp://, irc:// etc etc

Seems ok… the main benefit being that if you have wifi built into your laptop/netbook you dont have to have the stupid modem dongle sticking out the side, and also you can get the dongle (and therefore the mobile reciever) into the optimum position more easily.

By: swing

swing — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:10:25 +0000

I’m not sure it itself has a firewall, but 3 themselves do, so there should be not greater risk that simply attaching a single PC / handset to the network.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:27:14 +0000

Ohh I forget…
Does it have a firewall?
Because that’s another critical feature.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:25:27 +0000

Well I was happy till they corrected, maybe the next version has a battery… or I wont be happy.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:07:10 +0000

I have 2 desktops connected to the router via a switch which works very well. The manual does not state anything about this, but you just need to connect the router to the switch, and connect PC to the switch, and connect as many as the modem/router allows (I am sure there is a limit)

By: daniel

daniel — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:11:00 +0000

to comment on what paul said in the beginning, it isnt intended to be “mobile”. its the opposite, its to turn ur “mobile” dongle into something you can station at home to share wirelessly. you would have no need to take this anywhere with you as you could just take the dongle :S i must say that through the router the speeds on pc’s connected to it is MUCH faster than just using a pc to share the net via rj45 if u get my drift. if for instance you have a ps3 or 360 the speed will be faster to connecting it to this rather than gettting to the internet through a pc. <- not very well explained but i imagine most of you get me.

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:57:40 +0000

For reasons unknown, no mention is made on either the 3 or Huawei websites (or in the ‘3′ marketing literature or on the ‘3′ product packaging) of any Wi-Fi Alliance certification, a rather important omission as it provides certainty over interoperability and functionality provided.

However, according to the Wi-Fi alliance website the D100 has received the following very important security certification WPA2-Personal
(see: http://certifications.wi-fi.org/pdf_certificate.php?cid=WFA6120 ).

Having found this out, I can buy one and use the inbuilt Wi-Fi rather than cable connect it to a certified Wi-Fi router, although I might still do this particularly as this would permit me to use 802.11a …

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