Guest stroochy Posted September 8, 2005 Report Posted September 8, 2005 Wasn't sure where to post this question ... I am using my semi-new Audiovox SMT5600 (goes by other names, I see) to connect to the Cingular GPRS network via IR to my laptop. I connect fine, but I was wondering if there were any settings I could tweak, either on my laptop or my phone to increase my connection speed. I don't expect blazing speeds, but I checked one of the online connection speedometers, and my connection speed is only about 31.82 (or something like that) kbps. Using IE on my phone is faster. You may laugh that I would use this setup to connect to the Internet at all, but I have T1 at work and spend most of my time there so don't really connect via modem/laptop that often to warrant spending money on a broadband service. I pay for Cingular's unlimited GPRS. Is my connection speed a function of their network, or, as I ask above, a function of my laptop or phone settings?
Guest ipaq6315 Posted October 4, 2005 Report Posted October 4, 2005 (edited) Wasn't sure where to post this question ... I am using my semi-new Audiovox SMT5600 (goes by other names, I see) to connect to the Cingular GPRS network via IR to my laptop. I connect fine, but I was wondering if there were any settings I could tweak, either on my laptop or my phone to increase my connection speed. I don't expect blazing speeds, but I checked one of the online connection speedometers, and my connection speed is only about 31.82 (or something like that) kbps. Using IE on my phone is faster. You may laugh that I would use this setup to connect to the Internet at all, but I have T1 at work and spend most of my time there so don't really connect via modem/laptop that often to warrant spending money on a broadband service. I pay for Cingular's unlimited GPRS. Is my connection speed a function of their network, or, as I ask above, a function of my laptop or phone settings? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I hope you got your issue resolved. Would you mind sending me the settings for your PDA and laptop to connect the laptop to the internet using the Cingular GPRS connection on your PDA? I have tried this several ways and can not get it to work. Thanks! Edited October 4, 2005 by ipaq6315
Guest Samsonite Posted October 5, 2005 Report Posted October 5, 2005 stroochy sorry no-one answered your original query - i never spotted it myself... GPRS connection speeds is governed by both the connecting device as well as network availability. The 'class of operation' for GPRS is built into the OS of your phone. I have a HTC Magician variant that has the option of changing the GPRS class to either 8 or 10. One of them - cant remember which - gives 1upload timeslot and 4 down and the other gives 3up and 2down. This should mean that one would give faster download speeds than the other. However, the network will only allocate the timeslots it has available depending on the voice traffic. This means in reality that your speed of connection will never be a guarantee, irrelevant of your device characteristics. AFAIK there are no settings you can meddle with on your PC to get faster speeds and your phone will always try it's hardest but be limited by the network... in fact 31kbps is not bad!! a non GPRS dataconnection (CSD) would never go faster than 9.6kbps (unless you are connecting to another GSM device and then v.110 will connect at 14.4) hope this helps!
Guest stroochy Posted October 5, 2005 Report Posted October 5, 2005 Hey, thanks! I pretty much figured that there wasn't much I could do, but I thought I'd give it a shot. :roll:
Guest stroochy Posted October 5, 2005 Report Posted October 5, 2005 To ipaq6315, there are many posts that have the settings you are looking for. Once thing I can tell you is that Cingular's Connection Manager doesn't work, at least not with my Smartphone. I had to manually configure a dial-up networking connection (using the settings I found in these forums).
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