My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag 03 Juli 2008 08:21:50 schrieb Knight Walker: Anyone who has paid attention to this mailing list over the last few months has seen the It doesn't have 3G, it's worthless messages about the FreeRunner. For me (And many, many others) having a fast, power-hungry wireless pipe to the

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Mikko Rauhala
to, 2008-07-03 kello 21:35 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer kirjoitti: Note though, once someone wants to call you while you are not idling, i.e. during a long wget, you will not get any call notifications. Instead, the network will think you are not reachable and -- if configured -- send you to

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Nkoli
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Mikko Rauhala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umh. Disappointing. Is this really the best it can do or best that has been coaxed out of it so far? This is the case with all gprs/edge capable phones - it has nothing to do with the neo specifically. 3G radios can

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Shawn Rutledge
This is all the same on both the original Neo1973 and the Freerunner, right? Is the FSO image OK for doing GPRS? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Erland Lewin
Would be possible to do some sort of bandwidth throttling of the GPRS data connection, or pausing data traffic briefly with some interval to make sure that incoming calls get through? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: My word on GPRS

2008-07-03 Thread Clinton Ebadi
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b) If you want to receive calls, the connection needs to be idle. You can safely have an activated context (i.e. i was able to log in via SSH) being idle and then you will get your incoming call notifications. Note though, once someone wants

Re: My word on GPRS

2008-07-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag 03 Juli 2008 23:02:07 schrieb Clinton Ebadi: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b) If you want to receive calls, the connection needs to be idle. You can safely have an activated context (i.e. i was able to log in via SSH) being idle and then you will get your

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag 03 Juli 2008 22:55:48 schrieb Shawn Rutledge: This is all the same on both the original Neo1973 and the Freerunner, right? Is the FSO image OK for doing GPRS? milestone1 did not contain any gprs features. milestone2 was not supposed to have, but since people have approached me

Re: My word on GPRS (was: How Slow Is Fast?)

2008-07-03 Thread Steven **
Really, the chances of your connection being *constantly* in use is pretty small. You'd have to be downloading a relatively large file or something that has 0 ms of idle time. I'm pretty sure this wouldn't happen during normal use. For example, you're browsing the web. You'd pull up a webpage.

Re: My word on GPRS

2008-07-03 Thread Ben Wilson
I wonder how feasible/effective it would be to do some extra realtime compression on the GPRS data link? Make a connection to your home Linux box to terminate the compression and connect you out to the internet from there. I'm not sure how GPRS works exactly, it may already use compression that

Re: My word on GPRS

2008-07-03 Thread Brad Midgley
Ben I wonder how feasible/effective it would be to do some extra realtime compression on the GPRS data link? ppp tries to compress it already, yes. some carriers stuck with gprs rates used to try payload manipulation. one way is with an http proxy that removes fidelity from images before