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Re: Phones that work as Modem Poll

I use my Nokia 6500 Slide with my N800, WCDMA is quick enough when used through bluetooth. I only use the free 15mb with the PAYG Dolphin £10 top up. What pay monthly data plans would you guys recommend in the UK?

Re: Phones that work as Modem Poll

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Originally Posted by bleek (Post 222816)

I believe the 3555 is one of 2 3G Phones Tmobile has, so it might be a standard handset but it does have a 3G modem. I have been wanting to test it out, but then again you might be in an area where 3G is not switched on yet. So far only the east coast(NYC) has it. I am in Dallas and went to a Tmobile store while in NYC in June and they seemed clueless about me wanting to test it. I didn't have time to wait to talk to a manager but I wanted to test it with the n810.

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My Nokia E70-2 (USA) works fine with my n810 on Tmobile. Had to change the internet2.voicestream.com to internet3 to work with my data plan under the default settings for Tmobile Internet on the n810.
It was slower than I though it would be(seems much slower than a laptop via bluetooth) especially compared to Wifi on the n810. It's almost like the bluetooth slows down the n810 to the point it slows MicroB down.

I'm on T-zones ($5.96/mo), so I'm going through wap.voicestream.com (said to be the same, speed-wise), but I haven't got my own proxy set up yet, so I'm still going through their proxy; I was hoping that was chiefly to blame for the slowness, and that $13/mo more would fix that completely... maybe not.

So far, the only speed test I've run was sftping to my work machine (around the proxy, not through), and I got 20-25 kB/s, or 160-200 kb/s throughput. But latency seems horrible when browsing; hence my proxy-blaming inclination.

One thing I noticed is the "compress PPP" option; I'm going to have to play with this, but if the N800 is indeed getting CPU-bound (and especially when transferring encrypted or compressed data), leaving it off may improve results.

Anyway, this message brought to you by Nokia, Nokia, and T-Mobile; walkaround web works well!

Re: Phones that work as Modem Poll

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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 222845)

They have closer to a half dozen, I think; there's a couple (including the 3555) that are UMTS only, and a couple full HSDPA. It's the cheapest 3G capable phone they have, though; I know we don't have 3G here, but I thought I'd grab some future-proofing. Hate to take a trip to NY and not have a 3G phone. ;) What I meant about standard was vs. Sidekicks, which use a special proxy server; 2.75G vs 3+G all use the same setup.

I'm on T-zones ($5.96/mo), so I'm going through wap.voicestream.com (said to be the same, speed-wise), but I haven't got my own proxy set up yet, so I'm still going through their proxy; I was hoping that was chiefly to blame for the slowness, and that $13/mo more would fix that completely... maybe not.

So far, the only speed test I've run was sftping to my work machine (around the proxy, not through), and I got 20-25 kB/s, or 160-200 kb/s throughput. But latency seems horrible when browsing; hence my proxy-blaming inclination.

One thing I noticed is the "compress PPP" option; I'm going to have to play with this, but if the N800 is indeed getting CPU-bound (and especially when transferring encrypted or compressed data), leaving it off may improve results.

Anyway, this message brought to you by Nokia, Nokia, and T-Mobile; walkaround web works well!

I think I am guessing the same you are on Browsing. Latency seems slow especially sites still coded in web 1.0 style with tons of useless small files and ads. I am also thinking MicroB is tweaked to work with Wifi so its expecting a faster throughput and thus the lag is evident. Does MicroB have the same configuration layer as Firefox?

I haven't tried using a proxy all these years. Have the $19.95 unlimited VPN plan. Or are you needing to setup the proxy so that you can access certain sites blocked on WAP?

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The t-zones APN, wap.~~~, blocks all ports except a handful, and does run a proxy to let you do http and https; you basically need a proxy or tunnel of some sort, but it can be anywhere; I'm guessing theirs is busy and slow, and I know it's limited as to what traffic; a good solution is said to be:

Run opensshd on one of the open ports, e.g. 995.
Run ssh -D1080 -p995 user@host locally
Configure apps to use localhost:1080 as a proxy, or use tsocks.

None of that should be necessary with full internet (VPN or not).

Microb pretty much does; there's some tweaks around already for prefs.js, which should help. Just got it yesterday, so I'll be trying stuff over the next few days.