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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / T-Mobile / April 2005Data services and PC hardware experiences
Does anyone have any experience with T-mobile data service and PC cards? I'm getting ready to sign up. I intend to use it mostly for international roaming. Any advice? Thanks, Mike H. > Does anyone have any experience with T-mobile data service and PC cards? > I'm getting ready to sign up. I intend to use it mostly for international > roaming. Any advice? I have used T-Mobile for almost 2 yrs now. Although not as fast as some of the other services currently being offered, the price makes sense. $29.99 (or $19.99 if you have T-Mobile service) compared to $80 for all the others. I have not been in a city hotel room where I couldn't get service yet. I use the card instead of the hotels dial up data port because the connection speed is in the high 40's instead of barely 28.8 with most hotels phone systems. Also in some places, hotels charge for phone calls. In these instances I always use the AirCard. I am using an older Merlin card that is no longer available but it works very well and certainly as well as many of my freinds who have the newer cards. > I have used T-Mobile for almost 2 yrs now. Although not as fast as some of > the other services currently being offered, the price makes sense. $29.99 [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > systems. Also in some places, hotels charge for phone calls. In these > instances I always use the AirCard. If you have time to plan your trip, you can find a hotel with free Wi-Fi. More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times faster than what you have.  SignatureJohn Richards The card now being offered by T-Mobile is capable of connecting on Wi-Fi as well as GPRS. Theoretically one will always be in contact. In places with Wi-Fi the connection would be much faster though. http://www.tmobile.com/products/overview.asp?phoneid=224272&class=data Maybe T-Mobile might be willing to exchange this model for an older card type! One carrier (maybe Sprint, I'm not sure at all) is coming out with a combined EV-DO + Wi-Fi card within a year. I think someone mentioned this in either this or another similar NG recently. HTH JP : > I have used T-Mobile for almost 2 yrs now. Although not as fast as some of : > the other services currently being offered, the price makes sense. $29.99 [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] : More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times faster : than what you have. > Maybe T-Mobile might be willing to exchange this model for an older card > type! The T-mobile business services guy whom I am talking to say he has no flexibility in the data hardware and that it changes from day to day. I told him that I was thinking about getting my own hardware, he said that he would happily ship me a SIM card. Thanks for your response. Mike H. > The card now being offered by T-Mobile is capable of connecting on Wi-Fi > as [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > : More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times faster > : than what you have. > If you have time to plan your trip, you can find a hotel with free Wi-Fi. > More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times faster > than what you have. Sometimes I have no choice as to the hotel I will be staying at. Wi-fi is definitely the way to go when it's available. I find that prior research for me has over the years proven to be unreliable. Once there was no Wi-Fi indicated and it gets installed at the hotel in Switzerland I was staying at one day after I arrive. I detect it, used it and leap for joy. Other times it is indicated but down or I can't find the right spot in the hotel to get it working. I travel prepared to use Wi-fi but need additional options. Thanks for your response. >> I have used T-Mobile for almost 2 yrs now. Although not as fast as some >> of the other services currently being offered, the price makes sense. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times faster > than what you have. >> If you have time to plan your trip, you can find a hotel with free Wi-Fi. >> More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times faster >> than what you have. > >Sometimes I have no choice as to the hotel I will be staying at. Wi-fi is >definitely the way to go when it's available. <snip> That is, if it's secure. Hilton's wireless requires turning off firewalls on PCs, which is an invitation to being hacked. No, thank you. >>> If you have time to plan your trip, you can find a hotel with free Wi-Fi. >>> More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times faster [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Hilton's wireless requires turning off firewalls on PCs, which is an invitation > to being hacked. No, thank you. I follow developments in the Wi-Fi world pretty closely. Either you are mis-stating Hilton's policy, or else Hilton runs their own firewall. Either way, I have not heard of anyone being hacked that way. SignatureJohn Richards >> That is, if it's secure. >> >> Hilton's wireless requires turning off firewalls on PCs, which is an invitation >> to being hacked. No, thank you. >I follow developments in the Wi-Fi world pretty closely. Either you are >mis-stating Hilton's policy, or else Hilton runs their own firewall. >Either way, I have not heard of anyone being hacked that way. Then get yourself off to the former Doubletrees on Hayden Island in Portland OR, where I stayed Easter weekend. Firewalls on personal hardware must be disabled, which exposes my gear to every other machine also on the customer net in the hotel. > Hilton's wireless requires turning off firewalls on PCs, which is an > invitation > to being hacked. No, thank you. I haven't been to a Hilton lately but NONE of the hotels I have been in the last 2 years that have WiFi or wired networks require me to turn anything off! > Hilton's wireless requires turning off firewalls on PCs, which is an > invitation > to being hacked. No, thank you. Good grief! >>> If you have time to plan your trip, you can find a hotel with free >>> Wi-Fi. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > invitation > to being hacked. No, thank you. > If you have time to plan your trip, you can find a hotel with free Wi-Fi. > More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times faster > than what you have. More and more motels/hotels have "High Speed" internet offerings for free, However, Some of the places that I travel at times are off the beaten path and do not have this service. For instance in Honolulu, HI this past week I stayed in a hotel that has some wired high speed, some wireless high speed and mostly dial up. You have ot be careful when checking in and ask for the high speed internet or you simply don't get it. Typically, hotels/motels have it or they don't, The above example is not typical. And most either have wireless or wired. Usually not both. Where I am tonight has both, tomorrow night is all wires. I ran into something similar at a Hilton in Boca Raton, FL a few weeks ago. High Speed in the room for $9.95/day; wireless in the lobby for some crazr hourly rate, or, in a room right off the lobby, you can use their PC connected to High Speed for free! I just plugged my laptop into the jack that the PC was using and wqas off to the races. From:John S johndsummers@teraearthlink.net >> If you have time to plan your trip, you can find a hotel with free >> Wi-Fi. More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > not typical. And most either have wireless or wired. Usually not > both. Where I am tonight has both, tomorrow night is all wires. Hi John, > Typically, hotels/motels have it or they don't, The above example is not > typical. And most either have wireless or wired. Usually not both. Where I > am tonight has both, tomorrow night is all wires. Yep. You have to be able to use a mix of services depending on what's available. I also have AT&T Business Global Net. It has local access points just about every where in the US. And 0800 numbers through out Europe and much of the world. Some places like London where the 0800 call is free from hotels instead of 99P per minute! I just use dial-up for data only. Other places like Paris I'm still willing to pay 20 Euro cents per minute for local dial up. In Szentendre Hungry, it was a local cheap Hungarian call to an AT&T Szentendre point of access. In Cairo there was no AT&T and the wireless LAN that I detected in my hotel was locked up. I'm not into hacking. I had better GPRS signals through our Egypt than in the US however! In the desert, on the Nile and the Red Sea. Go figure. All the best, Mike H. l >> If you have time to plan your trip, you can find a hotel with free Wi-Fi. >> More and more are including it as a perk. It's about 25 times faster [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > typical. And most either have wireless or wired. Usually not both. Where I > am tonight has both, tomorrow night is all wires. Thanks John, This is encouraging information. >> Does anyone have any experience with T-mobile data service and PC cards? >> I'm getting ready to sign up. I intend to use it mostly for international [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > very well and certainly as well as many of my freinds who have the newer > cards. |
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