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ja - 03 Sep 2005 16:08 GMT

Hello guys,

I am having a problem connecting to the internet through the laptop with my
Nokia 3220. I have MediaNet unlimited, and I can connect just fine through
the wap browser on the phone.

Now, when I try to connect through the internet, the phone beeps and says
"Subscribe to GPRS first"

But I am already subscribed, and it works fine on just the phone. I can't
really get any support from Cingular since they don't support tethering with
Media Net.

What's going on here? It was working perfectly yesterday.

Thanks,

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ja - 03 Sep 2005 16:14 GMT

OK, the panic is over. I figured out what I did wrong.

When you plug the data cable in a different usb port, you have to fix all
the settings, as if it is a whole new modem that the PC has never seen
before.

For a second I was thinking that maybe Cingular started to block tethering.
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dold@XReXXNokia.usenet.us.com - 03 Sep 2005 19:00 GMT

> When you plug the data cable in a different usb port, you have to fix all
> the settings, as if it is a whole new modem that the PC has never seen
> before.

That's pretty annoying, isn't it? I tripped over that a couple of times
before I got consistent with the port that I use.

> For a second I was thinking that maybe Cingular started to block
> tethering.

I don't know why they don't, or abandon the idea that there is a
difference. How can the same amount of the same kind of data cost $19.99,
$44.99, or $79.99 depending on which gadget is fetching it?

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tmoran@acm.org - 05 Sep 2005 18:14 GMT

> How can the same amount of the same kind of data cost $19.99,
> $44.99, or $79.99 depending on which gadget is fetching it?

What in fact are the economics of the various things cell companies
sell? Eventually their prices should converge toward their costs.

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Thurman - 08 Sep 2005 00:11 GMT

>> How can the same amount of the same kind of data cost $19.99,
>> $44.99, or $79.99 depending on which gadget is fetching it?
> What in fact are the economics of the various things cell companies
> sell? Eventually their prices should converge toward their costs.

As a designer of mobile systems, my experience is the three devices consume
different levels (MB) of data. There are always exceptions, but a simple
test is to use Yahoo on a V3, PPC-PE and a notebook. The amount of data
download is optimized for the device.

I used Google on a Razr yesterday to locate a restaurant. The results on the
cell phone were primitive but sufficient only because I was familiar with
the territory. Typically the cell phone draws a small map with only one
street labeled. My PDA labels about 50% of the streets. My notebook has all
the streets labeled.

Competition kicks in maybe not as fast as you want, but eventually. Nextel
(?) just yesterday dropped unlimited Internet service for connection cards
to $60/month.

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John Navas - 10 Sep 2005 08:14 GMT

>>> How can the same amount of the same kind of data cost $19.99,
>>> $44.99, or $79.99 depending on which gadget is fetching it?
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>street labeled. My PDA labels about 50% of the streets. My notebook has all
>the streets labeled.

Much depends on what you want to do, how you do it, and the speed of the
device. My EGPRS(EDGE)-capable V551 has much faster data speed than the V3,
and when used with a full Web browser (Java-based WebViewer) chews through
data at an impressive rate on its way to giving me a remarkably usable Web
experience given the small screen. (Images are initially scaled to the small
screen, but can be zoomed and panned.) So I can consume a great deal of data
transfer on just the phone itself.

Regardless, when I want to locate a business (e.g., restaurant), I normally
get directions instead of a map, on either the V551 or a notebook computer,
because I find that to be more efficient. As a result, I never have a problem
with just the V551, even when unfamiliar with the territory.

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