From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 5 14:53:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from jupiter.linuxengine.net (jupiter.linuxengine.net [209.61.188.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A1E37B403 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jupiterweb.commercevault.com (jupiterweb.commercevault.com [209.61.179.16] (may be forged)) by jupiter.linuxengine.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f95M5Gr12724 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:05:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:05:16 -0500 (CDT) From: John Utz X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: SprintPCS modem, no catch In-Reply-To: <200110051941.f95JfK739324@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Ben Hockenhull writes: > : So, I was looking all over for some fine print on this modem in the manual You will also get 2500 minutes of free service over sixty days. 60days/ 7days/week = 60/7 weeks 8.blah weeks hmm lessee hear ~45minutes on the bus each way, ~5minutes of which are in the bus tunnel so i am sure it will drop the connection just like my phone does. that's 80 min/day * 5days/week = 400min/week 2500 min/ 400 min/week = 25/4 weeks = 6.25 weeks. looks like i'll have to be parsimonious with the connect time on the ol' bus....and no demo-ing it to my geek friends either unless they wanna ride the bus with moi..... wonder how much the 'real' minutes are gonna cost? i'll stop spamming now, unless somebody responds :-) -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message