17 posts tagged “hsdpa”
So, I'm staying with my sister for a few days and she's just moved into this lovely new place. All's well and good except she doesn't have ADSL enabled yet (any day soon!) oh, and no Sky - but I can manage with Freeview for a week.
Anyway back to the broadband... I really do miss my crappy 2 meg at home. Sure it's slow compared to 98% of the rest of the country, but it sure beats whatever the hell I'm getting from what is supposedly an HSDPA connection right now this minute.
To be fair though, I have a sneaky feeling there's some kind of conflict between my dongle and this Vista laptop as the same sim works fine accessing the same shoutcast streams when in a phone (her DAB reception is, as we say in England, pants).
Oh well, we'll probably be switched on tomorrow.
Watch your dongles people!
Actually, it didn't dawn on me last night. No. Rather the horrible thought that it's just as easy for scammers to send me messages to that (as it's just a normal SIM with a regular mobile number) as it is to my mobile phone. Shudder...
When using the software provided with the dongle, if I so wish, I can send and receive messages. I could also possibly receive spam from mBlox's partners and other companies of that ilk. As I mostly use my mobile modem on my Linux-flavoured Eee PC and, as I have no way of seeing if I've received SMS messages on that OS, then I could be in the process of being fleeced right now and have absolutely no idea until either my bill arrives or I find my bank account overdrawn.
Looks like I need to log in to My3 on my PC.
In the meantime I recommend everyone in the UK that's on mobile broadband - check your account regularly! The 419ers would love to get away with something like this (maybe they could club together and get enough money to go "legit" - in the UK you can scam people legally and don't have to pretend to be a dodgy solicitor, banker or civil servant!)
Amazon will soon be selling the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) in the EMEA territories - this should include the UK. The OLPC, from what I've seen of it (I'm probably one of the lucky few in the UK that have seen one in the flesh!) is a fantastic machine. The design and the thought that went behind it are ground-breaking and inspirational. Fortunately it's been designed for things such drops on the ground and should withstand a lot before breaking!
The deal, as with the one in the US, requires the customer to pay for two of the laptops and they receive one. Basically customers donate one to a child in a developing nation and get one for themselves. I'm often sceptical as to where charity money goes. However, this, in my opinion, is a great idea that if I had the money I'd be more than happy to dig deep!
If only the world had more people like Nicholas Negroponte and less like Andrew Bud. One can dream... Negroponte wants to help disadvantaged children, whereas Bud helps companies dis-advantage children.
Now to the Dell Mini (here as well) and Vodafone's exclusive deal with Dell for the UK. It looks nice, specs don't seem too bad (I've only had a quick skim though) and it has HSDPA built-in! 'Bout time we started seeing that. Hopefully having it built in won't become a problem down the line (diallers, premium SMS scams etc). Amongst other things, I wish my Eee had HSDPA in it. I think I'd like getting my super 3G/3.5G on without a huge dongle sticking out.
The above title sounds a little like the headers on those spam emails purporting to be from CNN or MSNBC. But this time, this one's for real.
This is 'work in progress' and I'm still not 100% sure this actually works - so far it seems to but anyhoo...
I have lots of problems with streaming audio via the internet connection on my phone (an N95 8GB) and the loaner from WOM World (Nokia 6220 Classic). I have no idea how HSDPA (aka 3.5G) works, but for some reason I had a hunch that turning it off may improve matters. I did so last night (on the 6220) and my streaming problems seem to have gone away.
I even managed to stream two radio stations at the same time and neither dropped the connection in the 10 minutes I had them going.
Living really close to an HSDPA enable 3 UK mast, it would seem counterintuitive to turn HSDPA off - but if it works, it works!
You're on the train home, you have your laptop out and you feel the urge to post!
I'm on my Eee PC 900 (I'm no longer a happy bun-Eee but that's a whole other post!) and typing away with barely any battery left (see previous typing inside brackets!)
I'm using the Huawei E220 and my new mobile broadband contract. It gives a new lease of life to my Eee (but don't get me started on the battery... see other brackets!)
I've also got my trial Nokia 6220 Classic with me and it's holding up well. Shame I had no luck in syncing my calender with it... I tried my best but clearly my best wasn't enough!
Slightly misleading title as my trial 3 Mobile Broadband dongle hasn't gone back just yet. However, it will in the next day or two. Although I never got the thing working with my Eee PC (I used it with a Vista laptop instead) and, even though things weren't always 100% hunky dory, I still decided I needed to look into getting one for myself.
So, tomorrow I should be having delivered a Huawei E220. I'll be getting up to 5 gig a month for £6.91 and the dongle thrown in. Looking around, I think that's got to be the best mobile broadband deal in the UK at the moment. And using 5 gig on mobile broadband can actually be more difficult than you'd imagine (I know from experience!*)
Anyone interested in the deal should check HotUKDeals out. It's the site where I found this - oh, and by the way, you'll need Quidco. If you've got a Linux flavoured Eee PC (or perhaps another non-Windows subnotebook) you *have* to go for the E220. That's the only one that works out-of-the-box. The direct link to the offer is for a different Huawei dongle but thanks to some resourceful folk on the deal's comments page you'll be able to select the E220 without any problems.
*Keep away from 720p video podcasts on Miro and you'll be fine!
Eee's and 3G mobile broadband should be a match made in heaven. In theory, one perfectly compliments the other. The only sticking point is out-of-the-box compatibility. Some of these dongles do work with ease - you plug them in, go through a short wizard and wham, bam, thank you ma'am, you're in business. But other dongles don't play nice.
The trouble is not knowing which ones work and which ones don't when purchasing one. 3 UK's website doesn't differentiate between the different modems they provide. And, though I've yet to try, I doubt the staff in the High St mobile or PC stores would know either (actually I'd put money on no one knowing in my local PC World yet pretending they do!)
It makes you wonder how many of these get returned to the shops because the user with an Eee (remember those e's stand for easy this, that and the other) couldn't get them to work and has given up with frustration. I can also imagine some poor soul ringing up 333's tech support guys in Mumbai and being told to take the battery out! ;o)
I've given up trying to get my trial one working with my Eee PC 900. I'm taking the SIM out and using it in my phone instead, that can then be connected to the laptop. I'll be putting my phone's SIM in one of my trial Skypephones and see how well I fare using one of those as my main phone for the next few days.
To see how popular 3G internet is with Eee users one only needs to go to the EeeUser forums. There´s 90 threads with mention of 3 alone, hundreds about HSDPA and probably quite a few about Voda as well.
Sorry folks, this offer is well and truly over now! There is nothing even remotely comparable available right now (Feb 2009)
'Three' are offering this fine phone free on 6 month contracts (oh how I wish I was on 6 months!) for just £15 per month. That's a whopping total cost of £90! The phone also has HSDPA connectivity (aka 3.5G, aka er, fast mobile internet!) so it makes an excellent alternative to a USB broadband dongle. Okay, it's nearly twice the price of the cheapest mobile broadband modems but they can't double up as a spare phone and offer you inclusive calls and texts. Nor can they be used as a SatNav!
This is yet another half-finished post as I've gotta be outta here. I found out about this care of gerrymoth's NokiAAdict blog. Here's his post: The Wife’s New White 6120 Classic
UK mobile operator 3 are looking at spreading the HSDPA (3.5G) love all around your home with a special wireless router. I like this idea, I like this idea a lot. Right now I'm on 3's mobile broadband in an abode that doesn't have ADSL or cable. Only the laptop I'm typing this on can use the connection and that is a bit of a pain. I've tried setting up an ad-hoc network using the Windows' Vista networking wizard and despite connecting, there's no connection (ie the other devices see this laptop but can't use its connection).
A company called DOVADO advertise a mobile broadband router here and it even supports the E169G that 3mobilebuzz supplied me with. That's kinda handy as the E169G can't be used on my Eee PC without a lot of hoops to be jumped through (more than this blogger thinks he can manage!)
See also: UK Gadgeteer and Electricpig
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