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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Alltel / December 2003Calling ISP over cellphone
I have a serial cable for my Motorola 7868W which I use to send scheduled faxes with free N&W minutes on a Total Freedom plan. Last week, when my DSL service was down for several days, I attempted to dial my backup ISP with this "modem". It answered, but there was never communication nor login. The number and username/password are good; I dragged an old pc in that has a modem and used it instead; is there something I am missing in using the cell phone? I have never tried it with my notebook, but had planned to use it soon for a corporate dial-up. Thanks! Do you have the wireless web service or whatever they call it these days? You have to have that to make data connections. Costs about $5 extra a month.  SignatureThomas M. Goethe > I have a serial cable for my Motorola 7868W which I use to send > scheduled faxes with free N&W minutes on a Total Freedom plan. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Thanks! No, but I wasn't connecting to their service; tried calling 3 to which I have access, BellSouth, ATT, and my son's Clemson U POPs > Do you have the wireless web service or whatever they call it these >days? You have to have that to make data connections. Costs about $5 extra a >month. You have to have the Alltel mobile web to make any data connection. It might be call Web Unwired or something like that. It does cost extra. SignatureThomas M. Goethe > No, but I wasn't connecting to their service; tried calling 3 to which > I have access, BellSouth, ATT, and my son's Clemson U POPs > > > Do you have the wireless web service or whatever they call it these > >days? You have to have that to make data connections. Costs about $5 extra a > >month. I make FAX daa connections just fine ... <g> ... wonder how they know the difference? > You have to have the Alltel mobile web to make any data connection. It >might be call Web Unwired or something like that. It does cost extra. Not sure how the calls route, but it is different and they do charge extra for data. Verizon includes it in most of their plans. SignatureThomas M. Goethe > I make FAX daa connections just fine ... <g> ... wonder how they know > the difference? > > > You have to have the Alltel mobile web to make any data connection. It > >might be call Web Unwired or something like that. It does cost extra. >I have a serial cable for my Motorola 7868W which I use to send >scheduled faxes with free N&W minutes on a Total Freedom plan. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >using the cell phone? I have never tried it with my notebook, but had >planned to use it soon for a corporate dial-up. I'm in Upstate SC. This note was sent via AllTel using my 7868W as the modem plugged into my notebook's serial port. I don't have any kind of special setup or software either on AllTel's side or on my side and am dialed into AT&T Worldnet. I've also used it to dial into Earthlink and have been using this setup for quite a while (well over a year). When I defined the modem in Windows, I defined it as a standard 19200 modem. The minutes I use come out of my package minutes (an older Regional Freedom plan), and I do not have AllTel's wireless web service that the other poster is telling you you'll need. Hope this helps! Wish it would work that way in Tampa! SignatureThomas M. Goethe > >I have a serial cable for my Motorola 7868W which I use to send > >scheduled faxes with free N&W minutes on a Total Freedom plan. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Hope this helps! Interesting ... never thought of using "standard modem", I'm using "Motorola CDMA Phone" which is what was picked by the (XP-Home) system as part of setup ... maybe after trying to get the sync software running? I'll try the standard modem sometime. >>I have a serial cable for my Motorola 7868W which I use to send >>scheduled faxes with free N&W minutes on a Total Freedom plan. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >Hope this helps! Mine also works as either a Motorola CDMA phone or as a 19200 standard modem, but in Tampa, I have had to have the added cost web unwired feature to make a data call. Never tried faxing without the data service. Incidentally, in this market, you can have the phone dial #777, enter qnc as both the user name and password and it connects to Alltel far quicker than I can connect to Earthlink. You can browse and receive email just fine, but may have to check into whether your isp will allow you to send email from another connection. Earthlink does with an smtpauth server. SignatureThomas M. Goethe > Interesting ... never thought of using "standard modem", I'm using > "Motorola CDMA Phone" which is what was picked by the (XP-Home) system [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > >Hope this helps! > Incidentally, in this market, you can have the phone dial #777, enter >qnc as both the user name and password and it connects to Alltel far quicker >than I can connect to Earthlink. You can browse and receive email just fine, >but may have to check into whether your isp will allow you to send email >from another connection. Earthlink does with an smtpauth server. I'll have to try that and see if it works here. I knew that Verizon had that service but wasn't aware that Alltel had it, too. I didn't find out about it until I was a beta tester for the Alltel 1x service in Tampa and the tech told me about it when we were doing some diagnostics. It really does work better than dialing an isp. SignatureThomas M. Goethe > > Incidentally, in this market, you can have the phone dial #777, enter > >qnc as both the user name and password and it connects to Alltel far quicker [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I'll have to try that and see if it works here. I knew that Verizon > had that service but wasn't aware that Alltel had it, too. > Incidentally, in this market, you can have the phone dial #777, enter >qnc as both the user name and password and it connects to Alltel far quicker >than I can connect to Earthlink. You can browse and receive email just fine, >but may have to check into whether your isp will allow you to send email >from another connection. Earthlink does with an smtpauth server. It works from here, too! Great - thanks for the tip! |
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