3G dongle to Wifi Router

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bhattu13

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Hi,
I read that USB dongles are user controlled and hence cannot be used with a USB to RJ45 converter on a wifi router.

If this is the case how come some of the newer routers (ASUS WL-330N3G, Asus RT-N14U) with a USB port are able to offer wifi with a 3G dongle? Is it just because they have a direct USB port?

So is it that any router with a USB port will be able to support 3G dongle?

Thank you for your response!
 
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Yes it is all software. A router that accepts USB and dd-wrt should be able to run 3g dongles. Key will be if you have enough memory to load the dd-wrt images that have the support for the dongles. The images are getting rather large.

You will still need to look though the list of support 3g dongles since it is worse than just the dongle hardware. The same dongle from different ISP needs a different driver to run. If they have refused to release certain critical information then nobody will be able to build the support into dd-wrt or most the other commercial routers for that matter.
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Wow! Thanks for a fast reply!

But I would like to know what the difference is - is it just software or is it hardware that limits a router from accepting a 3G dongle. If its just software then can flashing a router (say with DD-WRT) solve the issue?

Just want to know it from a basic perspective - not too technical ;) ..

Thanks again!

P.S - I am using IOData WN-G300R
 
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Yes it is all software. A router that accepts USB and dd-wrt should be able to run 3g dongles. Key will be if you have enough memory to load the dd-wrt images that have the support for the dongles. The images are getting rather large.

You will still need to look though the list of support 3g dongles since it is worse than just the dongle hardware. The same dongle from different ISP needs a different driver to run. If they have refused to release certain critical information then nobody will be able to build the support into dd-wrt or most the other commercial routers for that matter.
 
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bhattu13

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Hmm .. Will check with DDr-WRT if they have anything for a Japanese router. But I guess I have to change my router if I want to use the Dongle!

Thank you all for your response!
 
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