Thread: Boost mobile?

Originally Posted by PURDooM

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shotgun: It shows up as a Motorola iDen USB modem, I don't know if nix drivers have been written for it. In your case, you probably would want to buy the serial modem cable, so the phone would act as a straightforward serial modem.
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One more question for you. The GPS, does that show up as a seperate device?

I think thats more of a phone sided feature where you can get long / lat I could be wrong.

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It doesn't show up at all, unless you use a serial cable and enable it, or are accessing it from a java applet on the phone. However, you can run a java applet while using DUN, so I think I could write software to send the NEMA string over the DUN connection as a TCPIP stream. Its on my todo list.

I cant figure out how you could use gps and DUN over serial at the same time, so I can only assume you can't and its one or the other. I don't have a serial cable, and I welcome someone to prove me wrong.

Originally Posted by RPM_VR4

I'm thinking about doing this. It's really $6/mo? I have free I-NET through my Sprint phone right now, but I have to plug in a USB cable and incomming calls go to voice-mail. I'd rather have a dedicated line for car I-NET if it is only $6/mo.

Really, $6/mo. Ive spent $7 so far and ive been using this for just over a month, and ive downloaded at least 50 MB of data off of it. (traffic updates, emails, software, ect). Of course I switch over to sprint whenever I need heavy bandwidth, but unless I am getting podcasts iDen works just fine.

Sorry Shotgun, was fixing my buddies xbox today and didn't get a chance to try DUN under linux, I'll get back to you in a few days.

Originally Posted by mbkowns

Raf,

Hows reception of the phone so far? Where do you place it? Maybe if its poor or sub-par we can find away to add an external antenna to it. I am searchin ebay and will be getting one soon.

I would say on a scale of 1-10, the phone gets about a 7.5... I have perfect reception @ home, but around town there are a couple of dead spots. Though I usually have atleast 2-3 bars out of 5.

Peace,

Rafster

P.S. You could always get something like this to help you out... http://www.cell-phone-accessories.co...l-booster.html

Originally Posted by PURDooM

Really, $6/mo. Ive spent $7 so far and ive been using this for just over a month, and ive downloaded at least 50 MB of data off of it. (traffic updates, emails, software, ect). Of course I switch over to sprint whenever I need heavy bandwidth, but unless I am getting podcasts iDen works just fine.

Sorry Shotgun, was fixing my buddies xbox today and didn't get a chance to try DUN under linux, I'll get back to you in a few days.

No worries. Appreciate you checking it out. Do you think this is fast enough for using with Google Earth at fairly low resoution? That's 90% of what I want it for.

It should be fast enough. Google Earth works fairly well on a 2400-bps modem . You don't need much speed especially once you've built up your cache a bit.

Originally Posted by RPM_VR4

It should be fast enough. Google Earth works fairly well on a 2400-bps modem . You don't need much speed especially once you've built up your cache a bit.

Cool. That's primarily what I want it for (GPS). Truth be told, I'm almost always within a few miles of my house. For other stuff, I can pull near my back and just get on my AP.

Have you actually tried that on a 2400bps? I think the last time I was traveling at those speeds was my circa 1990.

No, not a real 2400bps, but in remote areas with poor signal my Sprint phone probably dips to around that. The Sprint phone can go as fast as 2x a 56k modem at times too. That stuff doesn't really affect GE that much though unless you change the zoom level or are traveling above a couple 100 MPH . Same goes for weather downloads, GPS log uploads, and most other things you doo often with a CarPC. Speed is not really nessasary for typical CarPC use (unless you are trying to stream media or just really can't stand having to wait a few seconds for your Google Local search results).