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- 03-09-2007, 07:55 AM #1jbyrdGuest
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..
"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
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> Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
> John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>
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- 04-02-2007, 04:42 PM #2Guest
Re: 200+ Kbps download for Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) (San Francisco Bay Area)
John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.)
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- 04-02-2007, 05:35 PM #3John NavasGuest
Re: 200+ Kbps download for Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) (San Francisco Bay Area)
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:42:10 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] wrote in
<[email protected]>:
>John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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?
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.
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- 04-02-2007, 06:14 PM #4Guest
Re: 200+ Kbps download for Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) (San Francisco Bay Area)
John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:42:10 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] 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.
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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5
- 04-02-2007, 06:17 PM #5SMSGuest
Re: 200+ Kbps download for Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) (San Francisco BayArea)
[email protected] wrote:
> 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.
- 04-02-2007, 06:25 PM #6John NavasGuest
Re: 200+ Kbps download for Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) (San Francisco Bay Area)
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:14:46 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] wrote in
<[email protected]>:
>John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:42:10 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] 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?
I tested "reader", and it worked (on a laptop screen image no less),
launching the browser, which wound up at the correct website.
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Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>
- 04-02-2007, 09:12 PM #7Todd AllcockGuest
Re: 200+ Kbps download for Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) (San Francisco Bay Area)
At 02 Apr 2007 17:17:18 -0700 SMS wrote:
> 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.
- 04-03-2007, 02:15 AM #8SMSGuest
Re: 200+ Kbps download for Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) (San Francisco BayArea)
Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 02 Apr 2007 17:17:18 -0700 SMS wrote:
>
>> 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.
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.
- 04-03-2007, 12:24 PM #9Guest
Re: QODE barcode reader for cellphones.
John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:14:46 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] 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?
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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5
- 04-03-2007, 06:44 PM #10John NavasGuest
Re: QODE barcode reader for cellphones.
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 18:24:28 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] wrote in
<[email protected]>:
>John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:14:46 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] 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.
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Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>
- 04-19-2007, 12:21 AM #11Guest
Re: 200+ Kbps download for Cingular EGPRS(EDGE) (San Francisco Bay Area)
John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:42:10 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] 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.
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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5
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