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Laptop Conection methods, equipment & service plans
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| Biggles 2006-12-22, 12:33 pm |
| Hello Everyone
I am sorry if this question has been asked before.
I am looking for the best way to connect with my laptop.
I want to use a separate PMCIA and this needs to have the ability to
connect an external aerial.
I want to use this in a sporadic way i.e. up to 10 days a month, but
not huge amounts of data.
I have been looking round and T-Mobile seem to have a good deal, but
they tell me Skype is "not allowed", although how they would know I am
not sure about.
I am happy to buy a recommended card, and have a pay per Mb plan, or
subscribe to plan and get free or subsidised card.
The other less favoured option is to use my current Orange contract and
buy Mb as I go and connect via bluetooth The problem with that is I
don't think my phone (SPV M600) is 3g, and I am not sure if the
bluetooth would be fast enough? not sure.
Would using Onspeed with my GPRS give good enough results?
Phew! that was a bit of a wish list. Anyone help / advise please?
Biggles
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| kwade.01@gmail.com declared for all the world to hear...
> I have been looking round and T-Mobile seem to have a good deal, but
> they tell me Skype is "not allowed", although how they would know I am
> not sure about.
Deep Packet Inspection.
> I am happy to buy a recommended card, and have a pay per Mb plan, or
> subscribe to plan and get free or subsidised card.
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> The other less favoured option is to use my current Orange contract and
> buy Mb as I go and connect via bluetooth The problem with that is I
> don't think my phone (SPV M600) is 3g, and I am not sure if the
> bluetooth would be fast enough? not sure.
The bluetooth would be plenty fast enough, the bottleneck will be the
connection to the mobile network.
> Would using Onspeed with my GPRS give good enough results?
Onspeed works by stripping quality out of images, which mobile networks
do anyway. It would only give benefit (if any) if you are web browsing.
Other internet activity (email, downloads etc) would be unaffected by
onspeed.
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Regards
Jon
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| simonclark123@hotmail.com 2006-12-23, 7:33 am |
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Onspeed is useful for browsing on your phone if you pay per meg (it
doesn't download a lot of the graphics etc - and makes it more
readable) or if you're not using 3g as it downloads faster due to the
same reason.
AFAIK Onspeed just use mini.opera, which is available for free
download.
Regards
Simon Clark
Business Telecoms
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| Biggles 2006-12-23, 3:33 pm |
| Cheers, keep it comming. More information the better
Biggles
simonclark123@hotmai
l.com wrote:
> Onspeed is useful for browsing on your phone if you pay per meg (it
> doesn't download a lot of the graphics etc - and makes it more
> readable) or if you're not using 3g as it downloads faster due to the
> same reason.
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> AFAIK Onspeed just use mini.opera, which is available for free
> download.
>
> Regards
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> Simon Clark
> Business Telecoms
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