Home topics news News Tech News Telstra Bigpond Ultimate USB modem review David Olsen December 2, 2010 Telstra’s Bigpond Ultimate USB modem is promoted to small business customers as the absolute fastest mobile internet speeds available in Australia, we secured one from Telstra and ran it through its paces as a small business mobile internet workhorse. Telstra’s Bigpond Ultimate USB modem has been trialled by selected businesses since August and is advertised as providing download speeds ranging from 1.1Mbps to 20Mbps in all capital CBDs and in 100 regional centres, putting it on par with fixed line internet speeds in most cases. Setting up the Bigpond Ultimate USB modem is easy, simply flicking the USB dongle to a right angle and sliding it into an available port on your laptop will have your machine detecting it and automatically running in no time at all. If you’re running a Windows 7 machine – at least on our test unit – you will have to manually navigate to the modem (like you would with a USB flash drive) and run the setup file, the setup process itself for the Ultimate USB is painless. So what about the performance? Telstra aims the Bigpond Ultimate USB modem at SMB customers with a range of plans tailored to businesses that need access to fixed line ADSL2+ quality download speeds when they are out of the office. If that describes your business, then Telstra’s offering is just the ticket. The caveat here is that like all