Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:17:04 +0200 From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> To: Maksim Yevmenkin <m_evmenkin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPRS + Bluetooth on FreeBSD (was: Support for Xircom CreditCard Bluetooth adapter?) Message-ID: <20030619071704.GA24288@speedy.unibe.ch> In-Reply-To: <20030618202756.23226.qmail@web40311.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030618214140.J725@korben.in.tern> <20030618202756.23226.qmail@web40311.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:27:56PM -0700, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > unrelated to the topic: i would like to know about people's experiences with > GPRS + Bluetooth on FreeBSD. is it usable in real life or more like a toy? > what it your usage of such configuration in the real life? what is the price > range? what is the normal speed? is GPRS connection stable? is GPRS coverage > any good? is that a reasonable configuration for road warrior type scenario? works well enoufh for me. The speed is something between a 33.6 and a 56k modem, so it's what was using for quite some time before I got lucky enough to get a cable connection. i use it mostly for looking up information on the web and for mailing. as for the price of access and transfer, I am again lucky enough to get it free from my employer. otherwise, it'd be expensive as hell: $7.5/MB and $3.25/Month base tax. different price models double the monthly fee and half the cost per MB (better, but still expensive). the stability of the connection seems good, although I have only used it for a couple of days so far. the same goes for the coverage, though since I live in a very small country, it is usually well covered, particularly along the railway tracks and highways. to sum it up, at least for the time it's free for me, it's a very handy thing to have. definitely more than a toy. when I will have to pay again (or even before, to improve speed), maybe a gzipping, ad-blocking proxy combined with a local http and dns cache and of course imap will help.
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