On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:16:56 GMT, Norman Lynagh wrote in


The rate of data transfer is interesting. If you simply make the old type
GSM dial up connection by the phone actually dialing a number, it is
restricted to 9.6 kb/sec (unless on Orange when it can be 14.4 kb/sec.
Using GPRS this rises to about the same, or slightly faster, than the old
56k dial up modem we use on PCs. That would be about 50-60 kb/sec. 3G is
much faster, but I don't yet know how this works via O2 SIMs. Only the
most recent phones could use 3G anyway.


I use a Trumobile GPRS card in my laptop with an O2 sim card in it. It
works a treat but it is something like £1 per megabyte. I didn't know
about this loophole with PAYG sim cards. I must try to get hold of one
and try it out with the GPRS card.

I was almost at the point of getting that sort of card until I realised I
could do virtually as much via my existing phone.

It's worth noting that your connection settings would have to be modified
to reflect the PAYG type of connection. There is more on this page:

http://www.filesaveas.com/gprs.html#o2

It is in the section "O2 GPRS settings (WAP)" you'd see some of the
details. However it still needs the http proxy settings, as in the table
to its right, as well as using port 8080 not 9201. The DNS servers are
also as mentioned under that second section.

If there is enough interest, I could put together a web page with a few
screen shots to illustrate how things are set up.

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 15/07/2005 08:43:12 UTC