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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / April 2007200+ Kbps download for Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) (San Francisco Bay Area)
Downloading over Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) here in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Ramon) continues to improve -- here's what I just saw for net throughput on a large FTP download using a Sony Ericsson GC82 PC Card (Class 10): Minimum: 21.7 KBytes/sec (174 Kbps) Maximum: 27.5 KBytes/sec (220 Kbps) Average: 25.4 KBytes/sec (204 Kbps) Performance monitor screen capture: <http://i19.tinypic.com/48fpk5w.png> UMTS/HSDPA would of course have been much faster.  SignatureBest regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS: John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ> Routinely boring to get 150 Kbps throughput from "free" VZW site. Packet I suppose. No data plan needed. Nights and weekends free. Surf all night, 8:01 PM 5:59AM if you like. Old plan.. > Downloading over Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) here in the San Francisco Bay Area > (San Ramon) continues to improve -- here's what I just saw for net [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > UMTS/HSDPA would of course have been much faster. I just moved up to HSDPA (using a RAZR V3xx), which does indeed make that kind of speed routinely boring. ;) Haven't had time to do much testing yet, but I've already seen over 500 Kbps throughput here in a moderate signal area. >Routinely boring to get 150 Kbps throughput from >"free" VZW site. Packet I suppose. No data plan >needed. Nights and weekends free. Surf all night, >8:01 PM 5:59AM if you like. Old plan.. >> UMTS/HSDPA would of course have been much faster. SignatureBest regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS: John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ> > I just moved up to HSDPA (using a RAZR V3xx), which does indeed make > that kind of speed routinely boring. ;) Haven't had time to do much > testing yet, but I've already seen over 500 Kbps throughput here in a > moderate signal area. Does this mean you would tether your new phone, instead of using the laptop card? Where did you buy yours? I see Cingular has one for $39.99 with a 2 year contract. Have you tried the http://qode.com barcode reader with it? (Today, I noticed that my connection has gone from GPRS to EGPRS, for the first time in this area.) Signature--- Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5 >> I just moved up to HSDPA (using a RAZR V3xx), which does indeed make >> that kind of speed routinely boring. ;) Haven't had time to do much [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Does this mean you would tether your new phone, instead of using the laptop >card? Yep. >Where did you buy yours? I see Cingular has one for $39.99 with a 2 year >contract. That's what I did. :) >Have you tried the http://qode.com barcode reader with it? Just tried it. V3xx not officially supported. Downloaded code for supported V3x. Works. >(Today, I noticed that my connection has gone from GPRS to EGPRS, for the >first time in this area.) Cool. SignatureBest regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ> > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:42:10 +0000 (UTC), dold@41.usenet.us.com wrote in > >Have you tried the http://qode.com barcode reader with it? > Just tried it. V3xx not officially supported. Downloaded code for > supported V3x. Works. There is a "window", where you key in a barcode that runs on my v551, and the "reader", where you take a picture of a barcode with your camera. Did you get the camera version to do UPC lookups? This looks like the new version of the cue-cat, which I thought was a really cool thing... obviously not enough geeks in the world to hook the free gadget to their computer, but "everybody" has a cellphone with a camera. Signature--- Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5 > This looks like the new version of the cue-cat, which I thought was a > really cool thing... obviously not enough geeks in the world to hook the > free gadget to their computer, but "everybody" has a cellphone with a > camera. I saw some Cuecats for sale over at Halted the other day. Radio Shack used to give them out for free. > I saw some Cuecats for sale over at Halted the other day. Radio Shack > used to give them out for free. True, and no one cared since they used a proprietary encrypted output. Once the "hack" to remove the encryption surfaced (long after the Shack stopped giving them away) they suddenly had "value" and surplus dealers started selling them. I still have my freebie I hacked long ago (IIRC, you just had to clip one diode or resistor leg- it's been awhile!) and use it very occasionally. >> I saw some Cuecats for sale over at Halted the other day. Radio Shack >> used to give them out for free. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I still have my freebie I hacked long ago (IIRC, you just had to clip one > diode or resistor leg- it's been awhile!) and use it very occasionally. IIRC, the hack was available almost immediately. I remember opening mine to hack it the day I got it. It was cutting one trace. I never remember the USB ones being given away, just the serial ones. >>> I saw some Cuecats for sale over at Halted the other day. Radio Shack >>> used to give them out for free. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > to hack it the day I got it. It was cutting one trace. I never remember > the USB ones being given away, just the serial ones. Any one remember the name of Dallas guy with the cancerous ego that was promoting them? He turned out to have an 'e-curse' where anything he blessed was doomed. > Any one remember the name of Dallas guy with the cancerous ego that was > promoting them? > > He turned out to have an 'e-curse' where anything he blessed was doomed. One of the people at "http://www.digitalconvergence.com/news/press_room.html" I suppose. >> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:42:10 +0000 (UTC), dold@41.usenet.us.com wrote in > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >the "reader", where you take a picture of a barcode with your camera. Did >you get the camera version to do UPC lookups? I tested "reader", and it worked (on a laptop screen image no less), launching the browser, which wound up at the correct website. SignatureBest regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ> > On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:14:46 +0000 (UTC), dold@41.usenet.us.com wrote in > >> >Have you tried the http://qode.com barcode reader with it? > I tested "reader", and it worked (on a laptop screen image no less), > launching the browser, which wound up at the correct website. I still have a a couple of the cue-cat things that plug in to a keyboard port, and a java or something that reads it nicely. I never did any hardware hack. But the cellphone is handier, and wireless. I keyed in various UPCs with mixed results. A Costco branded item wasn't recognized, but said the root UPC was registered to a company... revealing the Costco supplier? It wasn't the name on the package. Like an FCC-ID on a Wifi card? ;-) Other UPCs were recognized, and fired off my WAP browser to the registered web site, which wasn't WAP viewable... a minor glitch in a WAP-oriented product scheme. Did your WAP viewer work, or did it invoke Opera or something? Lets see ... UPC ... There's a history, try it again... Hey! It's viewable today. Hmmm. And how did they avoid the initial "confirm" message that I still get for Google Maps? Signature--- Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5 >> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:14:46 +0000 (UTC), dold@41.usenet.us.com wrote in >> >> >Have you tried the http://qode.com barcode reader with it? > >> I tested "reader", and it worked (on a laptop screen image no less), >> launching the browser, which wound up at the correct website. >Other UPCs were recognized, and fired off my WAP browser to the registered >web site, which wasn't WAP viewable... a minor glitch in a WAP-oriented >product scheme. Did your WAP viewer work, or did it invoke Opera or >something? Lets see ... UPC ... There's a history, try it again... Hey! >It's viewable today. Hmmm. The browser in the V3xx is reportedly based on Opera, and is considerable more capable than the typical WAP browser. >And how did they avoid the initial "confirm" message that I still get for >Google Maps? I got a confirm message for the camera. The browser is built into the phone, so there's no confirm message. SignatureBest regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ> > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:42:10 +0000 (UTC), dold@41.usenet.us.com wrote in > >Where did you buy yours? I see Cingular has one for $39.99 with a 2 year > >contract. > That's what I did. :) But,now there are colors! Black, Gold, Platinum; $49, $79, $99. (I missed the $39.) Unless it's really Platinum, I can't see anything in the specs that makes it worth twice as much. Signature--- Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5 |
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