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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on December 21, 2007, 12:03:02 AM
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Living out here in the sticks is peaceful and all, but it leaves something to be desired when it comes to hi speed isp's. No DSL, no cable and I'm SOL using microwave because of my location. BUT, I will not be denied access to hi speed!!!
Tonight, it became so! I bought a new Motorola Q PDA and have been surfing the net for tips and tricks. I stumbled across a thread that gave me exact simple instructions for using it as a modem without paying for an extra service (I already have unlimited data usage).
Altho I can't take advantage of G3 networking (because it is not available in my neck of the woods yet) I can use the GSM networks. My dialup isp normally logged me in at 33.6kbps. Now tethering to my PDA I connect at 10Mbps!
I smell a cancelled dialup account!:D
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Originally posted by rpm
I stumbled across a thread that gave me exact simple instructions for using it as a modem without paying for an extra service (I already have unlimited data usage).
care to share?
that's a huge jump in bandwidth you're making, makes me remember when I first got broadband... I went hog wild downloading crap for weeks!
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Originally posted by bsdaddict
care to share?
No problemo, amigo!
http://www.everythingq.com/forum/moto-q-9h/tethering-moto-q-9h-with-at-and-t-13976.html
File Manager, Windows, find IntShrUI.exe make shortcut and put it in start menu. Start IntShrUI, hit left soft key "connect"
plug in usb cable and go.
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Originally posted by rpm
No problemo, amigo!
http://www.everythingq.com/forum/moto-q-9h/tethering-moto-q-9h-with-at-and-t-13976.html
very interesting, thanks. I'm considering a piece of property where I'd like to build an off the grid cabin and been thinking about how to connect, this could come in handy...
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and the colored girls go doo doo doo, doo doo, doo doo doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo dooooo....
:cool:
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Be careful.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/12/12/canadian_man_shocked_by_big_phone_bill/5977/
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heh, ive been highspeed as long as i can remember
<---- 100MB/S on a crappy laptop
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There has to be more to that story. I have an unlimited data usage plan, how would a provider know what the data was used for? But thanks for the heads up.
BTW, AH runs just dandy with no lag or warps!
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"Unlimited" might not mean the same to your mobile phone provider as it does to you. Make sure you check that there isn't a limit specified in the small print of the terms and conditions. see for example http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060726/1926251.shtml
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After digging thru the "fine print" (which BTW was never mentioned or signed by me) seems AT&T has their butt covered.
link (http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/legal/plan-terms.jsp?&dsessionid=Hr01nQ7PmgcZVNntmH7Y2vMbrkpCNRhr2QmBG7zDpJ5pjNrQDlTC!564287312!1198224639560)
Prohibited and Permissible Uses: Data Service sessions may be conducted only for the following purposes: (i) Internet browsing; (ii) email; and (iii) corporate intranet access (including access to corporate email, customer relationship management, sales force automation, and field service automation applications). PROHIBITED USES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, USING SERVICES: (I) WITH SERVER DEVICES OR WITH HOST COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WEB CAMERA POSTS OR BROADCASTS, CONTINUOUS JPEG FILE TRANSFERS, AUTOMATIC DATA FEEDS, TELEMETRY APPLICATIONS, PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) FILE SHARING, AUTOMATED FUNCTIONS OR ANY OTHER MACHINE-TO-MACHINE APPLICATIONS; (II) AS SUBSTITUTE OR BACKUP FOR PRIVATE LINES OR DEDICATED DATA CONNECTIONS; (III) FOR VOICE OVER IP; (IV) IN CONJUNCTION WITH WWAN OR OTHER APPLICATIONS OR DEVICES WHICH AGGREGATE USAGE FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES PRIOR TO TRANSMISSION; (V) USING THE SERVICES FOR ANY ACTIVITY THAT ADVERSELY AFFECTS THE ABILITY OF OTHER PEOPLE OR SYSTEMS TO USE EITHER THE SERVICES OR OTHER PARTIES' INTERNET-BASED RESOURCES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION OF NETWORK OR SYSTEM RESOURCES (WHETHER INTENTIONAL OR UNINTENTIONAL) AND "DENIAL OF SERVICE" (DOS) ATTACKS AGAINST ANOTHER NETWORK HOST OR INDIVIDUAL USER; OR (VI) INTERFERENCE WITH OR DISRUPTION OF OTHER NETWORK USERS, NETWORK SERVICES OR NETWORK EQUIPMENT. EXCEPT FOR CONTENT FORMATTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AT&T¿S WIRELESS CONTENT STANDARDS, UNLIMITED PLANS CANNOT BE USED FOR UPLOADING, DOWNLOADING OR STREAMING OF VIDEO CONTENT (E.G. MOVIES, TV), MUSIC OR GAMES. FURTHERMORE, PLANS (UNLESS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED FOR TETHERING USAGE) CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY APPLICATIONS THAT TETHER THE DEVICE (THROUGH USE OF, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONNECTION KITS, OTHER PHONE/PDA-TO-COMPUTER ACCESSORIES, BLUETOOTH® OR ANY OTHER WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY) TO LAPTOPS, PCS, OR OTHER EQUIPMENT FOR ANY PURPOSE. Service is not intended to provide full-time connections, and the Service may be discontinued after a significant period of inactivity or after sessions of excessive usage. AT&T reserves the right to (i) limit throughput or amount of data transferred, deny Service and/or terminate Service, without notice, to anyone it believes is using the Service in any manner prohibited above or whose usage adversely impacts its wireless network or service levels or hinders access to its wireless network and (ii) protect its wireless network from harm, which may impact legitimate data flows. You may not send solicitations to AT&T¿s wireless subscribers without their consent. You may not use the Services other than as intended by AT&T and applicable law. Plans are for individual, non-commercial use only and are not for resale.
Well frack. :(
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teh sux.
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and the colored girls go doo doo doo, doo doo, doo doo doo, doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo dooooo....
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(sax solo)
:cool:
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Saaaaay babe take a walk on the wild side.....
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Just stick it to the man and see if he can catch you.
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Originally posted by rpm
After digging thru the "fine print" (which BTW was never mentioned or signed by me) seems AT&T has their butt covered.
link (http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/legal/plan-terms.jsp?&dsessionid=Hr01nQ7PmgcZVNntmH7Y2vMbrkpCNRhr2QmBG7zDpJ5pjNrQDlTC!564287312!1198224639560)
Well frack. :(
How about something like this...
http://b2b.vzw.com/broadband/bbapccard.html
TIGERESS
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If you need something for gaming satellite won't cut it but if you just want decent high speed internet access then it's the way to go for places out in the boonies away from anything better than slow dial up.
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I had the same BS/Dialup only, no cable, no DSL problem with where my home is located .
You may want to go to DSL Reports , Try doing a search for a wireless ISP .
I did and found an ISP located in Lancaster, CA ( an hours drive from my home ) .
I connect at a T 1.5 up and down . pings are usually around
20/50 ms to AH servers ... and it cost less than than the dialup and extra phone did. ( alot less) .
All that was available here at Crystalaire was dialup, ( AT&T phone service) dead slow dialup , connecting @ 26Kbs ...... It sucked .
One other thing I used to use before DSL and cable internet, when I Live at Crestline, Ca was what was called "shotgun" dial up or dual modems
using shotgunning in my networking . It requires two seprate phone lines.
I only used it early in the morning or late at night, because it tied up
both my phones . I used to connect at 100Kbs total with it .
It wasn't rocket science , but it worked ....
Regards,
Bob
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Originally posted by rpm
There has to be more to that story. I have an unlimited data usage plan, how would a provider know what the data was used for?
It is far far easier than you might think. I'm a network security guy, we can peer into your traffic and see what sort of applications you're running, from simple things to inspecting your web browser agent (for example if it comes back IE6 then we know you're on a pc) to more advanced signatures to identify p2p applications and games.
One product I deal with for telcos is this: http://www.allot.com . Now I now for a fact AT&T use this product (cos we sell em to the local NZ guys). This box would tell them all they needed to know about your activities.
Scared yet? :)
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2 or 2.5G GSM has a theoretical max data rate of 470ish kbit/s using EDGE. Reality will be about half that. If you are in an area where AT+T / Cingular have rolled out 3G, you could - theoretically - see downloads as high as 7.2MBits/s. In reality it would be somewhere around 1MBit/s.
Whilst your wireless connection may very well be more stable than your dial up, the 10MB connection its reporting is most likely the speed of the connection between your computer and the PDA - not the rate at which the PDA is connecting to the internet.
As an example, my computer currently reports its connected at 1000Mbps - but that's just the rate between it and the router. The router is connected to the internet at something like 15Mbps.
Wooley.