Sanyo 5500 (VM4500) and USB cable

OK, I have the phone and I got a USB cable today in the mail. I'd like to use my 'unlimited' Vision for some email checking via my laptop.'
I downloaded and installed the regular USB drivers and the computer recognizes the phone OK.

I know that this is frowned upon, but what do I need to complete this setup and have it work?

Preferably a free dialer/dialup (#777??) program and some instructions, would be great.

TIA for any help you can offer..

-Rick

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In article <[email protected]>,
"rick" <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, I have the phone and I got a USB cable today in the mail. I'd like to use
> my 'unlimited' Vision for some email checking via my laptop.'
> I downloaded and installed the regular USB drivers and the computer
> recognizes the phone OK.
>
> I know that this is frowned upon, but what do I need to complete this setup
> and have it work?
>
> Preferably a free dialer/dialup (#777??) program and some instructions, would
> be great.
>
> TIA for any help you can offer..

If you have Windows XP, you just execute the Dialup Wizard.

I did use hyper terminal to verify that the phone was communicating
with the computer. The phone screen showed Data Srv (or somethign like
that) and a transmit/receive display. Hyper terminal showed a bunch of
ascii gibberish.

Not being familiar with XP's dialup wizard, I assume you mean the New
Connection Wizard.

For phone #, I use #777, correct?

Do I need to put in a password and username?

Bobby T <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "rick" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you have Windows XP, you just execute the Dialup Wizard.

"Rick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I did use hyper terminal to verify that the phone was communicating
> with the computer. The phone screen showed Data Srv (or somethign like
> that) and a transmit/receive display. Hyper terminal showed a bunch of
> ascii gibberish.
>
> Not being familiar with XP's dialup wizard, I assume you mean the New
> Connection Wizard.
>
> For phone #, I use #777, correct?
>
> Do I need to put in a password and username?

Yes, in the dial up, you use #777. As to a password and username, no ...
leave those fields blank. I haven't followed your prior posting here, but
you will need the drivers for your phone as well, if you haven't downloaded
them already. You might trying to see whether Sanyousa.com have them, or
futuredial.com.

Bob

tried this out a couple days ago - very nice..

connected at 115.2Kbps.

checked a couple webpages and some webmail.

Will come in very handy for those times when I am expecting an very
important email or need to check the online banking and I am away from home.

I wish they would just make this a supported item and put some hard limits
on it. I'd even be willing to kick a little extra money in ($20??) -
definitely NOT $80 like for the PCMCIA cards tho.

"Bob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Rick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I did use hyper terminal to verify that the phone was communicating
> > with the computer. The phone screen showed Data Srv (or somethign like
> > that) and a transmit/receive display. Hyper terminal showed a bunch of
> > ascii gibberish.
> >
> > Not being familiar with XP's dialup wizard, I assume you mean the New
> > Connection Wizard.
> >
> > For phone #, I use #777, correct?
> >
> > Do I need to put in a password and username?
>
> Yes, in the dial up, you use #777. As to a password and username, no ...
> leave those fields blank. I haven't followed your prior posting here, but
> you will need the drivers for your phone as well, if you haven't
downloaded
> them already. You might trying to see whether Sanyousa.com have them, or
> futuredial.com.
>
> Bob
>
>

In article <[email protected]>,
"rick" <[email protected]> wrote:

> tried this out a couple days ago - very nice..
>
> connected at 115.2Kbps.
>
> checked a couple webpages and some webmail.
>
> Will come in very handy for those times when I am expecting an very
> important email or need to check the online banking and I am away from home.
>
> I wish they would just make this a supported item and put some hard limits
> on it. I'd even be willing to kick a little extra money in ($20??) -
> definitely NOT $80 like for the PCMCIA cards tho.

You are already kicking in $15/month for Vision.

If the 5 Gig/month limit thats been suggested is where they draw the
line thats 80 Megs a day, ample for any casual use.

"rick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> tried this out a couple days ago - very nice..
>
> connected at 115.2Kbps.

Actually, that 115.2K speed mentioned above sounds more like the connection
speed between the phone and the laptop, not the connection speed on line. My
little icon shows that 115.2 # as well, but when doing a speed test through
dslreports.com it shows my connection is doing between 50-80K, with some
spikes upto 110K.
>
> checked a couple webpages and some webmail.
>
> Will come in very handy for those times when I am expecting an very
> important email or need to check the online banking and I am away from
home.
>
> I wish they would just make this a supported item and put some hard limits
> on it. I'd even be willing to kick a little extra money in ($20??) -
> definitely NOT $80 like for the PCMCIA cards tho.

I think we'd all like to see that, i.e.: a certain amount included within
the Vision fee, save for those folks who really push the online time limits.
As to what that threshold would be, maybe 30 to 40 megs a month. IOW, just
to do email, faxing online etc. Anything over that would be billed out @
$0.01/KB.

With SPCS adding 2000 more towers this year, additional ones in 2005 (iow,
more capacity), and the introduction at EV-DV in 2006, I'm sure that SPCS
will have some additional data plans offered down the road. Especially with
the introduction of EV-DV. Wi-Fi hot spots are cheaper right now, but
there's hardly any coverage area or capacity to support those folks in
coverage areas right now. IMHO, when EV-DV is released by SPCS, Verizon and
others, it's going to shake up the whole industry, at least where EV-DV will
be available (Top 100 MSAs).

Bob

I realize I pay $15/month for Vision, but that DOES NOT allow me to use this
thing the way I want to.

Here's my situation.

I work at an airport fire department. We are too far from telco to get DSL
and too far off the road to have cable run to the station (TWarner said
$200K to run it). I am there 10 days a month. I do most of my websurfing at
night 6pm - 10pm.. There are no hotspots for me to link up to. Therefore, my
only option is painfully slow dialup (41.2kpbs). Ideally, I'd like to be
able to use my cell/modem as my internet service for those few hours a
month. I'm not talking about downloading mp3s or crap like that - just
general surfing (this newsgroup, email, online banks, a couple forums, etc).
Also, I have a couple other guys at the station that like to check their
email and whatnot, so I have to share the phoneline with them. If I was able
to use this service, I could take myself out of that dialup loop and be
surfing at a better rate..

For that ability, I am willing to pony up another $20.

"Røbert M." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "rick" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > tried this out a couple days ago - very nice..
> >
> > connected at 115.2Kbps.
> >
> > checked a couple webpages and some webmail.
> >
> > Will come in very handy for those times when I am expecting an very
> > important email or need to check the online banking and I am away from
home.
> >
> > I wish they would just make this a supported item and put some hard
limits
> > on it. I'd even be willing to kick a little extra money in ($20??) -
> > definitely NOT $80 like for the PCMCIA cards tho.
>
> You are already kicking in $15/month for Vision.
>
> If the 5 Gig/month limit thats been suggested is where they draw the
> line thats 80 Megs a day, ample for any casual use.

In article <[email protected]>,
"rick" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I realize I pay $15/month for Vision, but that DOES NOT allow me to use this
> thing the way I want to.
>
> Here's my situation.
>
> I work at an airport fire department. We are too far from telco to get DSL
> and too far off the road to have cable run to the station (TWarner said
> $200K to run it). I am there 10 days a month. I do most of my websurfing at
> night 6pm - 10pm.. There are no hotspots for me to link up to. Therefore, my
> only option is painfully slow dialup (41.2kpbs). Ideally, I'd like to be
> able to use my cell/modem as my internet service for those few hours a
> month. I'm not talking about downloading mp3s or crap like that - just
> general surfing (this newsgroup, email, online banks, a couple forums, etc).
> Also, I have a couple other guys at the station that like to check their
> email and whatnot, so I have to share the phoneline with them. If I was able
> to use this service, I could take myself out of that dialup loop and be
> surfing at a better rate..
>
> For that ability, I am willing to pony up another $20.

Well for now, you can likely use your cell phone as a modem with no
difficulty.

Another possible option if the fire department picks up the tab:

http://directv.direcway.com/

If you are within the city limits, Time Warner by dint of its franchise
agreement may be forced to service you upon request without a $200K
surcharge. Depends on the fine print in their franchise agreement.

"rick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> tried this out a couple days ago - very nice..
>
> connected at 115.2Kbps.
>
> checked a couple webpages and some webmail.


Hi,

I can't seem to find drivers for the USB-to-phone set-up. Sanyo.com doesn't
have them (that I could see), and futuredial.com requires a serial number
from one of their products before allowing downloads.

Any other sites I should try?

Thanks.


Bill T

"Røbert M" wrote:
>
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "rick" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I realize I pay $15/month for Vision, but that DOES NOT allow me to use this
> > thing the way I want to.
> >
> > Here's my situation.
> >
> > I work at an airport fire department. We are too far from telco to get DSL
> > and too far off the road to have cable run to the station (TWarner said
> > $200K to run it). I am there 10 days a month. I do most of my websurfing at
> > night 6pm - 10pm.. There are no hotspots for me to link up to. Therefore, my
> > only option is painfully slow dialup (41.2kpbs). Ideally, I'd like to be
> > able to use my cell/modem as my internet service for those few hours a
> > month. I'm not talking about downloading mp3s or crap like that - just
> > general surfing (this newsgroup, email, online banks, a couple forums, etc).
> > Also, I have a couple other guys at the station that like to check their
> > email and whatnot, so I have to share the phoneline with them. If I was able
> > to use this service, I could take myself out of that dialup loop and be
> > surfing at a better rate..
> >
> > For that ability, I am willing to pony up another $20.
>
> Well for now, you can likely use your cell phone as a modem with no
> difficulty.

At 4 hours per night, you can bet he'll get "nailed."

Larry

Lawrence Glasser wrote:

>>> I work at an airport fire department. We are too far from telco to
>>> get DSL and too far off the road to have cable run to the station
>>> (TWarner said $200K to run it). I am there 10 days a month. I do
>>> most of my websurfing at night 6pm - 10pm.. There are no hotspots
>>> for me to link up to. Therefore, my only option is painfully slow
>>> dialup (41.2kpbs). Ideally, I'd like to be able to use my
>>> cell/modem as my internet service for those few hours a month. I'm
>>> not talking about downloading mp3s or crap like that - just general
>>> surfing (this newsgroup, email, online banks, a couple forums,
>>> etc).

>> Well for now, you can likely use your cell phone as a modem with no
>> difficulty.

> At 4 hours per night, you can bet he'll get "nailed."

4 hours a night for 10 days a month for just email, the web, and
newsgroups? I doubt very seriously he'd get "nailed" (as you put it).
I for one have done that kind of traffic before with no problem.

If he were to run Kazaa constantly during those 4 hours, then maybe.


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">
> I can't seem to find drivers for the USB-to-phone set-up. Sanyo.com
> doesn't have them (that I could see), and futuredial.com requires a serial
> number from one of their products before allowing downloads.
>
>

Oops, I just found it on http://www.datapilot.com/drivers.htm . I had to
google "VM4500 drivers" instead of "Sanyo phone drivers". Duh.


Bill

Donkey Agony wrote:
>
> Lawrence Glasser wrote:
>
> >>> I work at an airport fire department. We are too far from telco to
> >>> get DSL and too far off the road to have cable run to the station
> >>> (TWarner said $200K to run it). I am there 10 days a month. I do
> >>> most of my websurfing at night 6pm - 10pm.. There are no hotspots
> >>> for me to link up to. Therefore, my only option is painfully slow
> >>> dialup (41.2kpbs). Ideally, I'd like to be able to use my
> >>> cell/modem as my internet service for those few hours a month. I'm
> >>> not talking about downloading mp3s or crap like that - just general
> >>> surfing (this newsgroup, email, online banks, a couple forums,
> >>> etc).
>
> >> Well for now, you can likely use your cell phone as a modem with no
> >> difficulty.
>
> > At 4 hours per night, you can bet he'll get "nailed."
>
> 4 hours a night for 10 days a month for just email, the web, and
> newsgroups? I doubt very seriously he'd get "nailed" (as you put it).
> I for one have done that kind of traffic before with no problem.

40 hours per month, using one's phone as a modem, my money's still on "nailed!"

Larry

In article <[email protected]>,
Lawrence Glasser <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Røbert M" wrote:
> >
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > "rick" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I realize I pay $15/month for Vision, but that DOES NOT allow me to use
> > > this
> > > thing the way I want to.
> > >
> > > Here's my situation.
> > >
> > > I work at an airport fire department. We are too far from telco to get
> > > DSL
> > > and too far off the road to have cable run to the station (TWarner said
> > > $200K to run it). I am there 10 days a month. I do most of my websurfing
> > > at
> > > night 6pm - 10pm.. There are no hotspots for me to link up to. Therefore,
> > > my
> > > only option is painfully slow dialup (41.2kpbs). Ideally, I'd like to be
> > > able to use my cell/modem as my internet service for those few hours a
> > > month. I'm not talking about downloading mp3s or crap like that - just
> > > general surfing (this newsgroup, email, online banks, a couple forums,
> > > etc).
> > > Also, I have a couple other guys at the station that like to check their
> > > email and whatnot, so I have to share the phoneline with them. If I was
> > > able
> > > to use this service, I could take myself out of that dialup loop and be
> > > surfing at a better rate..
> > >
> > > For that ability, I am willing to pony up another $20.
> >
> > Well for now, you can likely use your cell phone as a modem with no
> > difficulty.
>
> At 4 hours per night, you can bet he'll get "nailed."

If the limit is 5 Gigs/month, thats 80 Meg per day, and casual surfing
typically uses ~10 megs /hour. That presumably would be 40 megs a day
and maybe not 7 days a week? This could be an interesting case to see
how/if SprintPCS polices using a cell phone as modem. You could be
right.