In "Share 3's mobile broadband effortlessly" Tony Dennis wrote
(28 November 2008) that the Huawei D100 router with the 3 network. I bought one from 3 in Australia and found it worked fine with the Virgin Broadband service. I just needed to change the APN to "VirginBroadband" and the Authentication protocol to "PAP".

About the only annoyance I found with the unit is that the "soft" power switch means that your have to press a button every time you turn the unit on: you can't just imply turn the power on at the wall.

As another commentator noted, 3G broadband is not very fast, typically being hundreds of kilobits per second, not the claimed megabits. But it is handy and the speed is not due to any fault of the router.

More details in my Blog at: http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2008/12/huawei-d100-3g-router-sold-in-australia.html

It is bad enough using these wireless "broadband" connections on one machine but sharing? 3.6Mbs my foot! I'm extremely lucky if I get 1.5Mbs. Most of the time is is 70 - 150Kbs and last Thursday I was downloading gmail at 0.4kbs!