Sat on my Laptop with my Nokia 6680 providing a bluetooth modem connection via GPRS to the laptop

Cool technology, but was does it cost?

 

Also.. how fast is it normally cos this is almost as fast as my 2mb line

 

afffooooooooooooooooooooookin lot

 

if you plan on using it regularly i would definately get some sort of bundle deal for it with your phone!!

 

very very very expensive... id wait till you get your bill in before you even consider trying it again , this may be you after your bill arrives >>>

 

unfortunately as you run your own business you cant go down the route i did, use the company mobile instead of your own

 

GPRS is about 56k AFAIK, it is definitely not very quick and a big step down from 3G!

 

no reply from stu, i guess he's disconnecting as we speak

 

also, lol.

What network Stu?

 

Orange.. actually, i "Presumed" it was GPRS.. the 6680 is a 3G phone, so may be connected via 3G.. it doesnt really make it clear what its up to, it just works...

Got this info from orange website:

pay as you use:
MB used price per MB
0-3 £3.00

3-15 £2.00

15+ £1.00

1MB is approximately equal to:
• 160 wap pages
• or viewing 20 web pages
• or downloading 10 games
• or downloading one high quality music track
• or sending around 100 short emails each containing up to 100 words
• or sending/downloading up to four video clips


So not that bad really if you need to access the web on the move in times of emergency or you just want 30mins to catch up on something

And youve got to love how the nokia suite connects via bluetooth and lets you send your texts and e-mails from your phone but via the laptop

Oh how a man with no work gets bored
Even got tom tom mobile and route 66 working fine with full voice commands from my 6680 over the bluetooth car kit

 

1mb=20 web pages, 3>4 hours use on laptop think thats a few more than 20 pages think i better ease off on the works phone, with my laptop

 

if its 3g its almost half a meg (depending on reception) and its very very fast

gprs is 56k speed (with perfect signal!)

handy for wap and email on the move, but not browsing PF

 

Its gotta be a 3G connection then... fookin amazing sat in a car!!

 

what connection string are you sing to dialup up the phone? it'll be *99# something something also do you know what your at string is in modem options? will be +CDGCONT=1,2,3 or something...

thats how you can tell :P

i'd love a 3g phone but stuck with a GPRS one, so its a bit pony, but then all i use it for is emil and the odd remote desktop session

 

God knows Jim... thankfully its all sorted by Nokia PC suite version 6.16

Click on connect to phone... then choose what you wnat to do.. e-mail, text, transfer music, backup phone, connect to internet, and more... it just all works... very unusual for PC > Phone technology

 

isnt gprs around20kbps IF THAT?

 

I did this last year on my road trip to scotland!

Lucky enough a mate works at O2 so I get unlimited GPRS transfers!

Still have a 30 quid a month bill but cant argue!

 

download rates of 7.1kbs

 

Deffo G3 connection then, im doing pages in less than 2 seconds every time... tested with edit and it seems just as fast as my ADSL really.. on most sites im trying

 

Interesting Stu!!

What file download rate are you getting?

 

Havent tried...!! Will try now.. dunno why i i didnt think of that myself

 

29.5KPS



Not as good as i was expecting, but all the same, damn good and far better than the poxy 5k a sec some dial up users have to endure!!

 

try this one for proper speed test,, http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ ,,i did and it said 'we are not worthy to test a god' ROFL

 

 

thats pretty good stu!

Time to get the in car pc finished...

 

deffo 3g! be carefull, with it being so fast youll run your bill up... lol god bless company paid-for contract phones

and Stu, GPRS used to be similar speed to GSM (ie 9.6) but recent(ish) upgrades in the existing infastructere mean you can get 56k speeds :top
GSM = 9.6k
HSCSD = 28.8k (GSM Call x2)
GPRS = 56k / 14.4k (down/up) [Theoretical max if they uncapped it would be just over 100k]
3G = 384k

 

Beautifull
Thanks for the knoweldge Jim, appreciated pal

 

cutresy of www.google.co.uk

 

The time you spent is more important. Thanks

 

do you need a bluetooth adaptor for your pc to do this?

 

terry, that or a cable.

BT adapters dont cost much tho i got a Belkin F8T009. its tiny and works rally well. plus i can swap it between by laptop and desktop PC

i'm gonna get a min-PCI BT adapter for the laptop tho

 

I bought a Belkin PC card one for the laptop simply as i reckon with things hanging out the side of it im asking for trouble ina mobile environment

The cable that comes with the phone works flwlessly and is USB too, but ive got this thing in my head i want wireless interaction so went for getting the bluetooth to work instead, which, as it happens, was flawless anyway

 

aye, mobile working rules

stu, thought about linking everyithg up at work so you can get your map files off your servers at the garage whilst out on the road?

the onlything about mobile working is...

...you can work from anywhere sounds odd, but if i CAN fix servers at 11pm ona sunday night, people will ring me and ask me to the people who cant do it, wont get called

 

When im out on the road im usually mapping live so have no reason to be able to access chips. We already have FTP access for our dealer network.

As for you being in demand, try to thrive off it pal, its not a bad thing