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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
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?