Does anyone use GPRS?

Post by **farang** » July 23, 2006, 8:58 pm

http://www.shop4thai.com/en/category/?cat=144&brand=315

Post by **beer monkey** » July 24, 2006, 3:58 am

farang wrote:http://www.shop4thai.com/en/category/?cat=144&brand=315

thanks farang.
so it will do the same job as my gprs motorola mobile phone. ??

Post by **Stevo** » July 24, 2006, 4:29 am

beer monkey wrote: so it will do the same job as my gprs motorola mobile phone. ??

Yep!

pretty much...

Post by **beer monkey** » July 24, 2006, 4:40 am

tar stevo.... so i am getting there, all i need to get is a net simcard (ais/d-tac) available from phone shops,un-lock my motorola and plug in to USB and go, (hopefully) and save myself 6900baht.
on an earlier post it was mentioned differant classes of phone's anyone know what a motorola V3 i would be?

Post by **Stevo** » July 24, 2006, 5:28 am

beer monkey wrote:tar stevo.... so i am getting there, all i need to get is a net simcard (ais/d-tac) available from phone shops,un-lock my motorola and plug in to USB and go, (hopefully) and save myself 6900baht.
on an earlier post it was mentioned differant classes of phone's anyone know what a motorola V3 i would be?

Class 10

Post by **wilson_smith** » July 24, 2006, 2:13 pm

funny, I just found this thread......I had a solomon GPRS modem and sim card up for sale in the classified section.....I think I was asking 5000 bt including the live SIM card. Its still up for grabs. Maybe I'll re-list it again?

Post by **beer monkey** » July 24, 2006, 2:20 pm

beer monkey wrote:

a bit confused with this speed thing to, everyone quotes kbps, when i look at the speed on my system it says Mbps ??
as i look now it says 48Mbps.

anyone know ?

Post by **wilson_smith** » July 24, 2006, 2:24 pm

I just re-listed it here:
http://www.udonmap.com/udonthaniforum/v ... 2851#22851

Post by **Stevo** » July 24, 2006, 4:04 pm

beer monkey wrote:
beer monkey wrote:

a bit confused with this speed thing to, everyone quotes kbps, when i look at the speed on my system it says Mbps ??
as i look now it says 48Mbps.
anyone know ?

That seems incredibly high BM... I would test that here.
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/

1 Mbps = 1024 Kbps.
Dial-up is around 56Kbps
GPRS 85Kbps
Most Thai internet cafe's (high speed ones) use 256/128Kbps

Post by **beer monkey** » July 24, 2006, 4:30 pm

Stevo wrote:
beer monkey wrote:
beer monkey wrote:

a bit confused with this speed thing to, everyone quotes kbps, when i look at the speed on my system it says Mbps ??
as i look now it says 48Mbps.
anyone know ?
That seems incredibly high BM... I would test that here.
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/

1 Mbps = 1024 Kbps.
Dial-up is around 56Kbps
GPRS 85Kbps
Most Thai internet cafe's (high speed ones) use 256/128Kbps

looking at the conversion you did it seems incredible !!!
just did that test, and came up with 955.1kbps. putting in wireless and UK.
when i point at the pc icon on the bottom of the screen it says speed 48.0Mbps and sometimes goes down to 24.0Mbps.

oh well learnt something else today thanks stevo.

Post by **FrazeeDK** » July 24, 2006, 9:19 pm

BM...

when you go to the test website make sure you don't have it stored in cache somewhere.. That'll give you some wicked out of wack speeds.. To do it, go to the website and then hit CTRL F5 That'll purge any cache and give you a true b/w test..

Post by **Papy Ion** » July 24, 2006, 10:45 pm

beer monkey wrote:
Stevo wrote:
beer monkey wrote:
beer monkey wrote:

a bit confused with this speed thing to, everyone quotes kbps, when i look at the speed on my system it says Mbps ??
as i look now it says 48Mbps.
anyone know ?
That seems incredibly high BM... I would test that here.
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/

1 Mbps = 1024 Kbps.
Dial-up is around 56Kbps
GPRS 85Kbps
Most Thai internet cafe's (high speed ones) use 256/128Kbps

looking at the conversion you did it seems incredible !!!
just did that test, and came up with 955.1kbps. putting in wireless and UK.
when i point at the pc icon on the bottom of the screen it says speed 48.0Mbps and sometimes goes down to 24.0Mbps. oh well learnt something else today thanks stevo.

Hi, Beer Monkey!

48Mbps is probably the speed within your LAN (= Local Area Network -> inside your house), so between your wireless card (it's my guess you use that sort of connection device) and your router (ADSL modem or whatever you use). The website mentioned above allows you to check your WAN (= Wide Area Network) connection speed, that is the speed between your router and their web server (it is this information that is more relevant if you want to know your Internet connection speed).

Post by **beer monkey** » July 24, 2006, 11:27 pm

thanks papy and frazeeDK.

still need to find out more about GPRS to use in Udon.
but i think i have been spoilt by the speed i have now.

Post by **wansman** » July 25, 2006, 1:14 pm

valentine wrote:Hi WM, think it would be ideal for you. USB port and self powered from computer, just plug it in and go. Comes complete with CD installation disc as well.

Thanks Val, I think that I'll stop by telewiz this next trip and get a modem for my laptop for Hong (whean's sister) to use. She always commandeers my laptop when I visit and always asks why it does not have internet when she knows that I have internet at home.

After Whean gets her visa the family wants me to look into getting Hong a student visa to see how she does in a university in the US. I like this idea as I have paid for her to finish high school and would hate to see her take that additional education and go to work in "seven" or down in Pattaya.

WM

Post by **wansman** » July 25, 2006, 1:17 pm

FrazeeDK wrote:BM...

when you go to the test website make sure you don't have it stored in cache somewhere.. That'll give you some wicked out of wack speeds.. To do it, go to the website and then hit CTRL F5 That'll purge any cache and give you a true b/w test..

Another thing that you can do to ensure that you are not looking at Cached pwebpages is hit the refresh button. That reloads from the original server instead of cache.

WM

Post by **wansman** » July 25, 2006, 1:29 pm

Papy Ion wrote: 48Mbps is probably the speed within your LAN (= Local Area Network -> inside your house), so between your wireless card (it's my guess you use that sort of connection device) and your router (ADSL modem or whatever you use). The website mentioned above allows you to check your WAN (= Wide Area Network) connection speed, that is the speed between your router and their web server (it is this information that is more relevant if you want to know your Internet connection speed).

48 Mbps is out of whack for a wireless connection point. Inside houses on wired connections you can get 100 Mbps or with Gig-e you can get 1000 Mbps but wireless is much less than this. Additionally, wireless speeds reduce dramatically with ever increasing distances from the access point and heaven forbid putting a couple of walls in the way. Another thing that you need to watch for with a wireless access point is encripting the access. If you have an unprotected access others with wireless cards can access the internet (or your computer) thru your router thereby reducing your ul/dl speeds by the data that they are ul/dl'ing. If you need to do this then open your browser and put in

"Http://xxx.xxx.x.x"

where xxxx = the ip address of your router

then you can manage the access thru the adminstration tab.

Also, do not change the ip address unless you can remember things forever well or write it down. You can always find out the default ip of a router but will need some savy knowledge to get one that you have forgotten unless you already have some proper snooping tools on your computer.

WM

Post by **Bandung_Dero** » July 26, 2006, 1:23 pm

Just to clear up some confusion regarding connection speeds I have posted this screen snapshot from my NoteBook.

You will see that I was clocked at 29.3 kbps on a bandwidth web site. On the right is my modem connection 115.2 kbps. I'm currently using the IR option on both my phone and NoteBook. My BlueTooth adapter connects at the same speed, I believe Solomon is 115.2 kbps also. Some of you think the modem (Solomon, Bluetooth etc.) speed is the GPRS speed but it isn't. I'm sure there is hardware and software around that will speed up GPRS but it is still dependant on your phone provider and their hardware.

Post by **beer monkey** » July 26, 2006, 4:10 pm

bandung-dero.....what would you say is better to use for internet connection in Udon/Thailand ?

Mobile Phone ......
Or Buy a modem and use that ?

Post by **Stevo** » July 26, 2006, 4:45 pm

They both do the same job Sean.... why buy a modem, when you already have one in your phone?

Post by **Bandung_Dero** » July 27, 2006, 9:06 am

Stevo wrote:They both do the same job Sean.... why buy a modem, when you already have one in your phone?

Exactly, most mobile phones these days can have some sort of interface with your PC whether it be hardwired, Infra-Red, Bluetooth etc. There is no difference in the connection bandwidth between a phone or a Solomon type modem when using the same network eg AIS DTAC etc. I use my Nokia 8910i which has both an IR and Bluetooth interface and when comparing it to my friend who uses Solomon there appears to be no difference.

Does anyone use GPRS?

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