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And now we're an Orcon customer.
Thier technical support guy was a bit confused about our wanting to connect via GPRS and not landline
and so it took a bit of trial and error, but now it's sorted and this post beamed to you via Vodafone WAP and Orcon Dial-up.
Once 3G coverage makes it's way to my suburb, I'll look at upgrading to the faster 3G connection.
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[ This Message was edited by: carkitter on 2006-04-02 06:46 ]
[ This Message was edited by: carkitter on 2006-04-02 06:47 ]
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Posted: 2005-11-20 00:26:32
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Uh, but using VF's connection isn't broadband in the adsl sense
But yeah the phones themselves suport being used as dial up modems or as over the air gprs modems which is all good.
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Posted: 2005-11-20 21:37:23
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I've set the connection speed for the K700 and Z600 modem connections at 460800 kbps. I know it's a theoretical maximum speed, but there is no descernble difference in download speed between GPRS modem and the D-Link DSL 302g ADSL modem via landline when viewing Xtra.
The Orcon dial-up connection via GPRS (still set at 460800 kbps) won't run any faster than 9.6kbps.
I'll give Orcon a call tomorrow, to see if they have any faster dial-up plans. They have 3 dial-up plans in total, I was under the impression they were all the same speed though.
I haven't cancelled Telecom's services yet. I think I'll do an internet speed test using GPRS and landline to see what the difference is.
Edit - Test Results:
GPRS 90,280 Kbps (520 Kb in 0.047s)
ADSL 136,877 Kbps (520 Kb in 0.031s)
Hmmm, ADSL is half as fast again as GPRS but in the times listed, no descernable difference.
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Posted: 2005-11-21 10:05:59
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Ahh you're looking at serial port speed there Car. The serial port speed doesn't effect the speed in which data is transmitted unless you were to drop it right down. (any setting above 115,200 is fine though, good for buffering)
GPRS is equivalent to a 56k modem, though really just under it, usually about a 50k connection. Meaning your downloads will top out on a 2g phone around 5k. (between half, 3 times, and upto 6 times less than wired DSL on a 128 or 256k plan)
If setting up a dial up account on the phone then you're looking at a max 28.8 connection if I remember rightly, you may need to check with vodafone there. Since you're getting below that by quite an amount, it'll probably pay to check with vodafone anyhow to get some advice.
The only high speed phones you'd be able to use are the 3g phones, since then you can suck down data at about the same rate as a 256k connection. (download speeds of anywhere upto 30k)
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Posted: 2005-11-21 21:17:58
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I am aware that GPRS is eqivalent to a 56K modem, but VF say that thier 'optimisation' technology allows close to twice that. That is evident in the 90K+ result.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with the Vodafone GPRS service, it's speed and the possibility of up to 500K download when optimised 3G coverage eventually reaches my suburb. Especially as it all happens via bluetooth and even without a $499 Mobile Connect Card.
Not to mention that using the
phones as modems, works flawlessly!
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Posted: 2005-11-22 10:07:25
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Heh the thing with "optimization technology" is that its great for text, and for images in which it degrades the quality. Luckily alot of stuff out there is still in an uncompressed state so it does have a little effect.
Anything compressed however is going to drop your speed back down.
Still as long as its all working out thats the main thing
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Posted: 2005-11-22 22:02:15
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Broke the news to Telecom.
Xtra Jetstream and landline connection end on Dec 2nd.
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Posted: 2005-11-27 03:14:00
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lol grats
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Posted: 2005-11-27 21:29:34
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Hmm... got stung by ill-informed customer service staff.
When setting up the connection to Orcon, I was given a number to enter into my connection settings. Connecting via this number using my wife's Z600 is viewed by Vodafone as WAP and as a result I have a $100 bill for 'Data Calls'.
Thanks Orcon
It took Vodafone Customer Service nearly A MONTH to reply to my enquiries over this matter and I'd probably still be waiting if I hadn't threatened contacting certain Media organisations.
That's nearly 1 month of not being able to connect to the internet for fear of increasing an already "out of control" bill.
Moral of the story: Whatever the ISP says, only connect to GPRS by dialling *99#.
Edit: By the way, Vodafone Billing Dept got confused by the Data (WAP) Calls and took them off my free minutes by mistake. Having sorted that out, they then did it again with my next bill!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 2006-01-19 11:00:55
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Several things about this didn't add up. Now I know what they are.
It seems the first VF CSR I spoke to gave me wrong info.
I don't need Orcon at all. VF can be my ISP and my email address can be *******@vodafone.net.nz, for example.
If I'd known this at the beginning I would have set up an Orcon account and wouldn't have needed wap to connect to it.
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Posted: 2006-02-28 01:40:31
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