From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 07:03:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8EA37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA5A43FAF for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:03:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from rowlf.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.187]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19QSgI-0004yA-00 for mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:03:58 -0700 Received: from [207.217.78.204] by EarthlinkWAM via HTTP; Thu Jun 12 07:03:58 PDT 2003 Message-ID: <662962.1055426638573.JavaMail.nobody@rowlf.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:03:54 -0500 (GMT) From: Sean Welch To: mobile@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Web Access Mail version 3.0 Subject: Re: LG 5350 cell phone X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:03:59 -0000 I received this question and thought it might be appropriate for others on the list as well. Sean ______________________________________________________________ Hi, Gordon. If you have Sprint PCS Vision service you can use an adapter to attach your computer to the net through your phone. I use it regularly on my laptop(s) and get throughput of around 7-12K per sec. That's double or more the typical speed of a 56K modem (3-5K per sec). I used gkrellm to monitor the speeds. I don't have the site addresses on hand at the moment but I should be able to dig them up this evening. The serial cable was the cheaper of the two -- it cost me right around $35 with shipping. The USB cable was more like $60 and (as per the thread) I've been unable to get it to work with FreeBSD yet. I'd love to because it has even faster throughput than the serial cable I benchmarked. I use it regularly on my iBook but I don't have a way to benchmark the speeds on that. It does seem to be a bit faster over a shared connection (I set up the 'Book as a wireless base station hooked up through the phone). To see the options I use to dial through the phone (I just use ppp when I do this), look through the menus on the phone itself. Hit the menu button on the initial screen and scroll up to the "Settings" menu (that's number 8). Then choose item 9 ("Setup") followed by item 4 ("Data-In"). You'll see three menu items to set: "Connection" (off, once, always), Method (USB, serial), Speed (the middle choice is as high as you can go for serial, the last will work with USB). Once you have the cable attaching the cell to your computer and you've set the cell to allow you to dial out you just open ppp on the port you've attached to and dial #777 -- there is no username or password to use. One nice thing is that you get a real ip address instead of being behind a gateway. Hope this helps. I'll copy the list and remove your email address so others can use this as well. Sean -------Original Message------- > From: Gordon Zaft > Sent: 06/12/03 07:15 AM > To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org > Subject: Re: LG 5350 cell phone > > > > Hey, I have one of these phones too. Where do you > get the adapters, and what can you do with 'em? > > GZ