OnSpeed does work!

[Guest spangelsaregreat]

Hi,

After getting an extorionate data bill from T-Mobile on my first bill I decided to give OnSpeed a try to see if the £24.99 per year would be worth it.

After a bit of testing it does seem to perform well. Web pages load a lot faster (probably 3 to 4 times as fast as normal GPRS speeds) and its reduction in GPRS traffic is nothing short of amazing.

I did some browsing of this forum and the BBC news page this morning and under normal GPRS I would have used 1395kb of data (about £7.50 worth under T-Mobiles daylight robbery GPRS prices (yes I am having a go at T-Mobile here, O2 are more than half that price)). OnSpeeds compression took the data usage down to 190kb!!

I have now bought a 3mb bundle (it also cuts the 1mb price of data to £3 if you go over your bundle) from T-Mobile to cut price of my GPRS usage which coupled with OnSpeed should make internet browsing a viable option on my JAM.

If anyone from T-Mobile is listening, unless you look at your UK pricing for data I will be going back to o2 when my contract expires.

Regards

[Guest jfran]

they are just encouraging you to take out the data bundles, besides the GPRS on o2 though cheaper is a joke.... too much configuration to get a simple services like basic wap and the internet set up and to get instant messaging clients to work could be a headache not to mention network downtime and congestion..... and other 3rd party services like onspeed simply dont work!

HTH

rgds

Jim

Edited May 4, 2005 by jfran

[Guest p_dog]

I just installed OnSpeed and it deleted my GPRS account!

Is this normal?

On the phone to T-Mobile to get it fixed at the moment...

[Guest spangelsaregreat]

Yes, it deleted my one to so had to recreate it.

Worked fine after that though.

Regards

[Guest jfran]

do u mean the settings??

[Guest Perfectionist]

Have been looking at OnSpeed for a while - would love to get it but paying for the software every year really kinda pisses me off ;)

[Guest jfran]

Mobile speed is quite similar and cost alot less and there is no software to install, then there is skweezer as someone mentioned on hofo.

rgds

Jim

[Guest exosyphen]

And Mobile-Speed will cost a LOT less ;)

[Guest jfran]

And Mobile-Speed will cost a LOT less ;)

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agreed, however as stated in my earlier review somewhere, services that need a direct internet connection and not a proxy one like alwaysonmail is affected.

rgds

Jim

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PS is that you robert ;)