I run my laptop through my cellphone (Samsung Blackjack II) via USB cable and AT&T service and get about 1.5 megabits. Pretty reasonable, actually. Things do seem to be getting better.
-- Best regards, Bruce Monday, August 4, 2008, 12:59:19 PM, you wrote: A> Technology has launched a surprise attack on me... A> Back in 2003, in Scotland, I remember Cotty had this special cable A> connecting his cellphone to his Mac to use the cellphone as a regular A> modem. I did the same via IR connection, and got a transfer rate about A> 9500 bits per second. The real transfer rate turned out to be lower A> because of packet loss. A> My present cellphone is not too happy about connecting via its IR A> interface, so I figured I better get some other stuff. A USB thingie A> is now connected to my laptop (which is the same as in 2003). It hooks A> up to the cellphone network, and must be doing some kinda magic 'cos A> the transfer rate is a whopping 1 megabit. Geez... A> I must be getting old. But lucky. A> Jostein A> -- A> http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ A> http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
