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I want to use my laptop on board, at sea. Bt and ntl, my current servers, always say one has to specify a number to call from. Does anyone have info' regarding a server, at a reasonable price, pref' pay as you use, that will "fit the bill". ie Where i can plug into any 'phone, shore or mobile, at home or abroad, and pay by card or some other method than monthly fees.
 
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Re: laptop use from different \'phones

First you need to data enable your sim, you will then have 3 numbers voice, data and fax. At present I think the pay as you go sims only support wap access and although this is a data call it's a different protocol than that which woul;d allow you to use you lattop

You really only need to know the fax and voice number for incoming calls the data number in most cases is only used for outgoing. Once you have these you can use any dial-up account to access the internet.

For laptop at sea use cable rather than ir or even better a card phone, available from either Nokia or Cambridge Silicon Radio, inciodently these can also be used with an IPAQ.

If you are only using this arangement for fax and internet weather stay in touch think about the nokia 9210

Tim Eades
http://www.btinternet.com/~tim.eades/<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by TimE on Thu Feb 14 13:02:41 2002 (server time).</FONT></P>
 
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Hi,

Depending on what you intend to do with your laptop there is s device which might be of interest to you. I have been trying to find something to get on the internet whilst mobile but not connecting laptop with GPRS phone, that's too expensive.

Check this out and see if it is of interest to you...

http://www1.carphonewarehouse.com/pogo/

I have found out a bit about it if you have any questions. Works on a GSM SIM card unique to Carphone Warehouse on the One to One network so it can roam. It isn't actually 10p/mon for the net as it just caches pages then disconnects costing about 1-2p, or so the guy at Pogo tells me!

Cheers

Ben
 
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I would look into this if I were you. This is from carphone warehouse site

Pogo for just £299.99
Connection fee £30
Total Cost £329.99 (as shown in your shopping basket)
Mobile Internet access charge £7.99 per month
Data calls - 10p per min
Voice calls - 10p per min to landlines and Fresh network
Cross network calls - 35p per min
SMS - 10p per message
Free delivery

The thing that worries me about their advertising blurb is 'delivering 3G like services' on a device that isnt even 2.5G and 'faster than home computer on 56K connection'. It doesnt matter how well their compression works it's still using the GSM network.

For this sort of money I would go for the 9210, £50 more but it is a phone, web, wap, fax, sms note booke word/excel paly video clips etc and if it's speed you want you have HSCSD connections.

GPRS is a different propersition, as you are probably aware it's an always on connection that will poll your mail server every 10, 20 or however many minutes you set it to. You only pay for the connection and download, if you select headers only you have a few seconds connection followed by longer if you choose to download selected emails

Tim Eades
http://www.btinternet.com/~tim.eades/<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by TimE on Thu Feb 14 13:24:00 2002 (server time).</FONT></P>
 
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Hi Tim,

I am also suspicious of the Pogo's capability until I have seen it fully working and when I went to the Carphone store last week they didn't have their SIM activated yet so I couldn't test it.

GPRS has ridiculous monthly charges for subscription, £4.50 per Mb is the lowest tariff and £4.50 per Mb over that limit. The top tariff is about £80 per month for 100Mb!! I don't know how to estimate how much data transfer would be involved in my websites that I use (for day-trading) and would like to know. I guess it would be a lot of Mb.

The 9210 is fine and I would be very pleased for anyone to buy it. I work for Nokia!!

Cheers

Ben
 
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GPRS/HSCSD Tariffs

odafone - Loan sim cards at present on a Voda 150 or business tariff.


Price Plan Monthly Access Charge Inclusive Data Data Charges(Mb)
GPRS 1 £6.37 1 Mb pm £4.25
GPRS 5 £15.00 5 Mb pm £2.90
GPRS 15 £24.00 15 Mb pm £1.50
GPRS 40 £44.00 40 Mb pm £1.00
VODA VOL TARIFF £10.00 N/A £1.00


Orange - HSCSD and GPRS, again a voice tariff must be used.

GPRS Monthly Inclusive Charge per
Bundle Subscription allocation additional
Megabyte
Data Bundle 1 £4 0.5Mb £8.00
Data Bundle 5 £15 5Mb £3.50
Data Bundle 10 £25 10Mb £2.50
Data Bundle 15 £30 15Mb £1.50
Data Bundle 25 £40 25Mb £1.50
Data Bundle 50 £50 50Mb £1.00
Data Bundle 100 £100 100Mb £0.95

High Speed Data Plan (HSCSD) £10 per month Data calls using two timeslots:
(19.2k or 28.8k)
low subscription with no monthly inclusive calls inc VAT 20p flat rate per
minute to fixed lines
inc Care 15p flat rate per minute to Orange numbers

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LoL!! Can you tell me when my Psion shares will take off then please?! ;-)

I think we should stop cluttering up John's thread now! I just found this site today and don't want to be making a nuisance of myself!

Cheers

Ben
 
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Re: GPRS/HSCSD Tariffs

I wouldn't touch HSCSD, as it is unlikely to have much future. The roadmap is pretty clear - GSM, GPRS, UMTS.

GPRS is stable now, especially the Motorola-supplied Cellnet network. Choose your tarrif carefully, and the data charges are good value, especially when you consider that you pay the equivalent of £350 per Mb for SMS.

I have all my corporate e-mail (less attachments) forwarded to a mobile GPRS terminal, and Im using less than 2Mb / month.

Given the Nokia 9210 is such a brick, and doesnt yet support GPRS (I believe) I would propose a compact GPRS standard phone, for easy voice comms, and use it as a radio modem for a cable-connected laptop

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You are right about the non support of GPRS on the 9210, and yes it is a "brick" but it is the only viable one box solution at the moment for web, wab, mail voice etc.

With the stuff we are working on at present there is going to be variety of solutions available from the major manufactures, Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola which will give a virety of choice of functionality and choice for mobile communication/information

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Re: GPRS/HSCSD Tariffs

A couple more points

I really wouldnt consider any mobile data network apart from GPRS. However, as per the original question, it is only available on post-paid contracts, and given the operators desire to move away from prepaid, is likely to stay that way for a while. Also, you need to be aware that there are not yet as many International roaming agreements for GPRS as GSM. However, they are improving by the month. Check GPRS roaming in your target crusing grounds before you sign up.

You also want to make sure you get the latest GPRS phones that support at least 3 timeslots down.

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Re: GPRS/HSCSD Tariffs

Wish I knew what you where all talking about?
Perhaps when you have sorted it all out you could tell me in English if my Nokia 710 would work and what is the cheapest way to go about it...used to use it on red hot ant with a cable rather than IR because it kept cutting out....after I paid my £70 fee it went bust. I found that hard enough to set up.
Makes me feel old.
all the best

Dave
 
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