If you're considering getting wireless internet access setup from your mobile phone's provider, take the time to look into the technology used to provide this service. You sad you're supposed to use your Pocket PC to connect to your computer and you're using the same Pocket PC as a "voice" device. If that's the case, the technology used to connect you to the internet might be something like GPRS or CDMA, not 802.11b/g.
At both my office AND my home in Romania I use wireless internet access because I live/work at a remote location, about 20 km from the nearest city and there's no DSL or any other broadband connection available. Unfortunately I'm using a CDMA-EvDO modem that's supposed to deliver up to 2Mbps, but I'm using it an area without CDMA-EvDO coverage so it falls back to CDMA-1X and that's only 153kbps. In my opinion you should NOT get any kind of wireless access before you can test it ON SITE! There are lots of things that can affect performance, including whether conditions (at my office things become really slow when it's cloudy, while at home I have no such problems), geography (radio beams have a funny way of "jumping" from heel to heel), and network load. Network load is especially important if your network is a mobile-telephony network: on such networks VOICE traffic has the greatest priority, so if your neighbor talks on the phone there's some chance your email will be put on hold. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:delphi-talk- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Meek > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 12:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: OT...Wireless networking > > As I'm now forced to set up a whole new system, I'm considering the > idea of switching to a different type of Internet access while I'm at it. > At my old address I had Comcast Broadband cable and it was great! > Very fast, no lag when playing games on-line, and very dependable. But > where I'm at now the ONLY thing available is thru Sprint and their > supposed > broadband DSL service! In fact I can't even get a different phone carrier > here so I abandoned my phone and am using the line strictly for DSL. I > bought a new Windows based Pocket PC, which includes a cell phone, for > voice > communications. > Still however, this DSL seems to be a lot less than what they > promised or what others who have competitive DSL accounts get. Sometimes > it > crawls along at less than average dial-up speeds, and other times it > requires constant re-booting in order to keep it working at all! > Anyway, my wireless phone account is through Verizon, and they also > offer broadband wireless internet access that can be used via the pocket > PC > and/or a desktop system, and not only would it be cheaper all around, but > it's advertisements also quotes speeds that are better than DSL service! > Does anyone out there use a wireless setup? If so I'd appreciate > hearing back from you, whether your experiences are good or bad. > Primarily > I need to know if there are different types that need consideration, or > different modem/router configurations that can effect overall speed, if > it's > a reliable system 24/7, if the download and upload speeds under actual use > are as good as I've been led to believe, and if there are any hidden > problems associated with them, such as long lag times when playing online > games like Battlefield 2. Although this last item isn't a priority, I DO > like to take a break late at night and spend an hour or two getting rid of > my aggressions! <g> It really helps when I get stuck on a particular > problem! > > Lastly, I have a lot of information on my laptop that I would like > to move over to my new desktop when it arrives. Unfortunately neither the > CD-RW or the floppy on the laptop work at all and so the only way I can > transfer this stuff is via a direct connection. Can that be accomplished > in > a peer to peer network between two machines just using an Ethernet to > Ethernet cable, or an Ethernet to USB? All the data I had on networking > is > also gone of course, and I don't remember what it said about setting a > system up to do this. Note, I do NOT want to have to go out and buy > another > piece of software, like Norton's PC AnyWhere, just to enable this ability > for a couple of days! > > from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" > freeware Windows apps and utilities > located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com > Proud to be a moderator for the > "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org > > > > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
