Re: [silk] modem phones
On 06-Apr-09, at 12:14 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: BSNL has started offering USB EVDO cards in bangalore. Rs 750 pm/2Mbps/Uncapped -- seems like a good deal. BSNL's EVDO data cards don't have roaming and are limited to 144 kbps. I confirmed with the local exchange last week. They are introducing 3G data cards in May. Reliance, OTOH, is already offering them. Rs 3500 for the card, plus monthly plans starting from Rs 650 for 1 GB to Rs 1700 odd for unlimited. I picked up one and have been using it for a week, and am very pleased. Speeds in excess of 1 Mbps are common. Reliance offers cards from Huawei and ZTE. The Huawei card works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and comes with Win and Mac drivers. In my limited use, the card hangs up every few minutes on Windows, less often on Linux and even lesser on OS X, where I've had sessions up to six hours. The included USB extension cable somehow seems to make it more reliable. I suspect a loose contact on the card. Hope that helps. Kiran
Re: [silk] modem phones
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: BSNL's EVDO data cards don't have roaming and are limited to 144 kbps. The speed is dependant on the exchange. 144 kbps is the limit for all CDMA 1x (called 1xRTT, I think) exchanges. For EVDO capable exchanges, I've seen speeds upto 1 Mbps. I have not been able to find a list of exchanges and their capabilities, but the Indiranagar exchange is EVDO capable. The ZTE cards work reasonably well with GNU/Linux. -- Alok Those lovable Brits department: They also have trouble pronouncing `vitamin'.
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Pranesh Prakash wrote: The ZTE card repeatedly crashed my system with the Linux 2.6.27-11-generic kernel / Ubuntu 8.10. YMIsV, I suppose. The black one ? AC800 ? I'm surprised that it crashes your system. It only needs usb-serial to work. I'm on Debian sid myself. -- Alok One planet is all you get.
Re: [silk] modem phones
BSNL has started offering USB EVDO cards in bangalore. Rs 750 pm/2Mbps/Uncapped -- seems like a good deal. -- b On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote: At 2009-04-04 17:47:43 -0700, sur...@hserus.net wrote: In such a case you're better off with a pcmcia or usb data card. A USB data card sounds good. I should have known that such things must exist. I knew about PCMCIA ones, but I don't have a PCMCIA slot. Do you have any recommendations? Or should I just get whatever $noname card I can find in Nehru Place? (Do you put your SIM card inside the USB thingy, or what?) Thanks. -- ams
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2009/4/6 Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account s...@venkatmangudi.com: Really uncapped, or do they have a FU policy like the others? Yes they do. However, I checked out the rules for Airtel and it seems they reduce your speed by half if you exceed 100 GB. I've been waiting to figure out where all this will go before taking a new connection in Bangalore. Kiran
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No clue -- I have all this on hearsay. -- b On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: Really uncapped, or do they have a FU policy like the others? On 4/6/09, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: BSNL has started offering USB EVDO cards in bangalore. Rs 750 pm/2Mbps/Uncapped -- seems like a good deal. -- b On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote: At 2009-04-04 17:47:43 -0700, sur...@hserus.net wrote: In such a case you're better off with a pcmcia or usb data card. A USB data card sounds good. I should have known that such things must exist. I knew about PCMCIA ones, but I don't have a PCMCIA slot. Do you have any recommendations? Or should I just get whatever $noname card I can find in Nehru Place? (Do you put your SIM card inside the USB thingy, or what?) Thanks. -- ams -- Sent from my mobile device
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On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Abhijit Menon-Sen [05/04/09 07:24 +0530]: A USB data card sounds good. I should have known that such things must exist. I knew about PCMCIA ones, but I don't have a PCMCIA slot. Do you have any recommendations? Or should I just get whatever $noname card I can find in Nehru Place? nehru place - for 5..6k. and yes you stick your simcard in. go to nehru place and see what known / recognizable brand name you can get. or walk into any vodafone / airtel / tata indicom (if you prefer cdma) store .. My brother bought a Lenovo netbook from the Croma store in Phoenix Mill Mumbai last week and also availed of a bundled offer of a USB data modem from TATA Indicom for Rs. 999. The data plan was unlimited downloads for the first three months for a thousand rupees. You could check out the local Croma store (http://www.cromaretail.com/stores/locations.html). Nandkumar
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On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:13:17 +0530, Nandkumar Saravade nsarav...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Abhijit Menon-Sen [05/04/09 07:24 +0530]: A USB data card sounds good. I should have known that such things must exist. I knew about PCMCIA ones, but I don't have a PCMCIA slot. Do you have any recommendations? Or should I just get whatever $noname card I can find in Nehru Place? nehru place - for 5..6k. and yes you stick your simcard in. go to nehru place and see what known / recognizable brand name you can get. or walk into any vodafone / airtel / tata indicom (if you prefer cdma) store .. My brother bought a Lenovo netbook from the Croma store in Phoenix Mill Mumbai last week and also availed of a bundled offer of a USB data modem from TATA Indicom for Rs. 999. The data plan was unlimited downloads for the first three months for a thousand rupees. You could check out the local Croma store (http://www.cromaretail.com/stores/locations.html). Nandkumar AMS, December last year, I used a Reliance Data Card (PCMCIA) on a train journey between Bhubaneswar and New Delhi; worked very well and I got network coverage on almost the entire route spanning through Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. A friend who travels frequently says he now uses a Reliance data card (usb) and finds it better than his (earlier) pcmcia version. I know there is a Reliance Outlet in Shakuntala Building, Nehru Place.
[silk] modem phones
I want to get a phone that can be used as a USB and Bluetooth modem with Linux. I had a Nokia E61 for a while, and it worked well (as a modem; as a phone, it was extraordinarily slow and painful). I want to replace it with something (much) cheaper. Many of the new(-ish) Nokia phones might fit the bill, but does anyone have specific recommendations? And does anyone think one of the other manufacturers (about whose phones I know nothing) has a better phone? Price is definitely the major consideration here. I'm not going to use it for anything but mobile connectivity, so any value additions are a complete waste of time. -- ams
Re: [silk] modem phones
At 2009-04-04 17:47:43 -0700, sur...@hserus.net wrote: In such a case you're better off with a pcmcia or usb data card. A USB data card sounds good. I should have known that such things must exist. I knew about PCMCIA ones, but I don't have a PCMCIA slot. Do you have any recommendations? Or should I just get whatever $noname card I can find in Nehru Place? (Do you put your SIM card inside the USB thingy, or what?) Thanks. -- ams
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Abhijit Menon-Sen [05/04/09 07:24 +0530]: A USB data card sounds good. I should have known that such things must exist. I knew about PCMCIA ones, but I don't have a PCMCIA slot. Do you have any recommendations? Or should I just get whatever $noname card I can find in Nehru Place? nehru place - for 5..6k. and yes you stick your simcard in. go to nehru place and see what known / recognizable brand name you can get. or walk into any vodafone / airtel / tata indicom (if you prefer cdma) store ..
Re: [silk] modem phones
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote: I want to get a phone that can be used as a USB and Bluetooth modem with Linux. The Android G1 supports tethering. I think the tethering between the laptop and the phone is over wifi rather than Bluetooth. Thaths -- You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel. -- Homer J. Simpson
