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Timothy Luoma | 22 Oct 2005 18:29

dialing my regular ISP with my Treo?


I have WirelessModem and a Mac.

Of course I have the problem where I can only keep connected for a  
short time before the connection dies.

Would it be any better to connect to my regular ISP rather than my  
cell phone network?

How would I initiate the call to my regular ISP?

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NotifyMail | 22 Oct 2005 18:56

Re: dialing my regular ISP with my Treo?


On Oct 22, 2005, at 9:29 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote:

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> I have WirelessModem and a Mac.
>
> Of course I have the problem where I can only keep connected for a  
> short time before the connection dies.
>
> Would it be any better to connect to my regular ISP rather than my  
> cell phone network?
>

Probably not.

>
> How would I initiate the call to my regular ISP?

If you're on Sprint, it will cost you $0.39 per minute to dial a  
regular modem.

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Dana S. Nau | 24 Oct 2005 02:39
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Re: dialing my regular ISP with my Treo?

> From: Timothy Luoma <lists <at> tntluoma.com>
> Date: October 22, 2005 12:29:09 PM EDT
>
> I have WirelessModem and a Mac.
> Of course I have the problem where I can only keep connected for a  
> short time before the connection dies.
> Would it be any better to connect to my regular ISP rather than my  
> cell phone network?
> How would I initiate the call to my regular ISP?

I'm using a bluetooth connection rather than WirelessModem, and have  
noticed that my connection *also* drops after a short period of  
time.  The way I fixed it might work for you too.

For me, the drop occurs when I haven't been using the connection for  
a few minutes.  Thus, my fix was to tell my computer to make some  
minor use of the connection periodically.  You can do that by  
launching the terminal window and typing something like

ping -i 18 COMPUTERNAME

where COMPUTERNAME is the name of any computer on the net.  For  
example, you could do

ping -i 18 www.google.com

This sends a "ping" message to google (which creates activity on your  
connection but uses very little bandwidth) every 18 seconds.   
Probably a longer time interval would work just as well, but I  
haven't tried.
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Timothy Luoma | 25 Oct 2005 08:17

Re: dialing my regular ISP with my Treo?


On Oct 22, 2005, at 12:56 PM, NotifyMail wrote:

>> How would I initiate the call to my regular ISP?
>
> If you're on Sprint, it will cost you $0.39 per minute to dial a  
> regular modem.

Even on nights/weekends?

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Timothy Luoma | 25 Oct 2005 08:25

Re: dialing my regular ISP with my Treo?


On Oct 23, 2005, at 8:39 PM, Dana S. Nau wrote:

> For me, the drop occurs when I haven't been using the connection  
> for a few minutes.

This is not the issue that I (or most of us) have been having.  It  
happens when the connection has been used a lot and seems to get  
overrun.

> By the way, can you tell me the settings you used to get  
> WirelessModem to work with your Mac?  I gave up last spring after  
> several frustrating attempts, but if there's a way to get it to  
> work, I might want to try again.  In case it matters, I'm using a  
> Powerbook and a Cingular Treo 650.

http://www.sprintpcsinfo.com/modules.php? 
name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=41&page=2

aka

http://tinyurl.com/3urd3

That works for me, with Sprint and a Powerbook and Treo 600.

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Ofer Inbar | 25 Oct 2005 18:05

Re: WirelessModem and Treo 650

Timothy Luoma <lists <at> tntluoma.com> wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2005, at 8:39 PM, Dana S. Nau wrote:
> > By the way, can you tell me the settings you used to get  
> > WirelessModem to work with your Mac?  I gave up last spring after  
> > several frustrating attempts, but if there's a way to get it to  
> > work, I might want to try again.  In case it matters, I'm using a  
> > Powerbook and a Cingular Treo 650.
[...]
> http://tinyurl.com/3urd3
> 
> That works for me, with Sprint and a Powerbook and Treo 600.

I used WirelessModem for two years with my Treo 300 and it worked
pretty well.  This September I switched to a Treo 650 and found that
WirelessModem simply does not work.  You can set it up and configure
it and everything looks good, but as soon as you actually try to make
a connection, the 650 reboots.

>From what I understand, from searching message boards and this list's
archives, this is probably related to serial port settings being
different on the 650, and WirelessModem would need to be upgraded to
work with the 650, but the author isn't interested in doing so because
of the 650's built-in bluetooth dialup networking.

I posted to this list asking if anyone knew how to make WirelessModem
work with a Treo 650 but got no responses at all.  This recent
discussion is the first sign of life I've seen on the list since I
subscribed.

If the original poster is having the same problem I and others have
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NotifyMail | 25 Oct 2005 18:53

Re: WirelessModem and Treo 650


On Oct 25, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Ofer Inbar wrote:
> If there's anyone out there who knows whether WirelessModem's author
> has any plans to support the 650, or who has found a workaround and is
> able to use WirelessModem or something similar, I'd like to hear from
> you.  It seems to me that bluetooth is much slower than what I used to
> get with my 300 connected via USB, and I'd like to try USB again to
> see if it is significantly faster, but without WirelessModem, I
> haven't been able to do it.
>   -- Cos

I have tried to get WirelessModem to work reliably on the Treo 650,  
but have been unable to do so. 2 other developers have also looked at  
it, but have also been unable to get it to work well. I will probably  
discontinue selling WirelessModem in the near future, but when I do  
so, I'm sure that people will complain that I'm no longer offering it.

I strongly recommend that Treo 650 users use Bluetooth Dial up  
Networking as it is supported and not a workaround like  
WirelessModem. If your carrier doesn't have the Treo 650 Bluetooth  
DUN enabled, I'd suggest contacting them and request it.

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Susan Midlarsky | 26 Oct 2005 19:03

Re: WirelessModem and Treo 650

> I have tried to get WirelessModem to work reliably on the Treo 650, 
> but have been unable to do so. 2 other developers have also looked at 
> it, but have also been unable to get it to work well. I will probably 
> discontinue selling WirelessModem in the near future, but when I do 
> so, I'm sure that people will complain that I'm no longer offering it.
>
> I strongly recommend that Treo 650 users use Bluetooth Dial up 
> Networking as it is supported and not a workaround like WirelessModem. 
> If your carrier doesn't have the Treo 650 Bluetooth DUN enabled, I'd 
> suggest contacting them and request it.
>
Yes, but what if your laptop doesn't have bluetooth?

Susan

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Thomjw | 27 Oct 2005 00:24
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reply for susan's question

You can just get a D-Link usb bluetooth adapter. I got one for my 
ibook. It is just a little bigger than a quarter in size and works 
great. Just plug it into your usb port and you are good to go.
Tom

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Timothy Luoma | 27 Oct 2005 23:05

Re: WirelessModem and Treo 650


On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Susan Midlarsky wrote:

> Yes, but what if your laptop doesn't have bluetooth?

$50 for a USB adaptor sounds like the most reliable solution

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