On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:15:57 +0200, Phil Layton wrote in


I am using a mobile phone connection. Its obviously slow, but in a 5-6min
call, I can check email, download headers from usw and a few interesting
articles (usually Darren and Colins daily posting so special thanks to
them!) the BBC PDA News plus any interesting articles), the LFV Metars/TAFs,
The spanish Meteosat (about 30kb) and the MetO Progs from the RNLI - all 4
progs to 72hr for less than 60kb.
I then put the Metars in to Digital Atmosphere that I have on the laptop.

With the International option on 02, its less than 50p /min so its probably
£3-4 a call but compared to everything else on the holiday it goes into the
noise...

For those familiar with using a mobile phone to access the Internet, as I
do particularly when away from home, it is worth noting an O2 Pay as you go
SIM allows free access via GPRS (not dial up). I use it all the time
whilst across the border in the Republic of Ireland with my laptop.

The phone can be connected virtually continuously and be checking on a
regular basis for the likes of email. There seems no restriction on web
access, but mail is confined to the O2 mail system (so I redirect from my
other account to there). The port needed for NNTP, news, access is
blocked. so I have to resort to Google, or bung in a Virgin SIM (at about
£5 a MB) to get that.

A few weekends ago I must have transferred over 40 megabytes in one day and
it was free:-) There is another member of this ng who uses his phone in
the same way, IIRC.


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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 14/07/2005 07:15:33 UTC