GPRS or dialup

[Guest Nigma]

Hi,

Im a little confused with somethings.....

If i select Orange WAP, and then visit a website using internet explorer, the GPRS icon appears in the top right. How can i stop it using gprs and use only dial-up..

Is it cheaper to use Dial-uo (wap) over GPRS? I am subscribed to the orange access pack..

Thanks Anand

[Guest Big Ron - No Longer a Mem]

GPRS and "dialup" (known as "CSD" by Orange) bill somewhat differently. GPRS is billed by the Kilobyte, CSD by the second. "Which is cheaper" depends on HOW you use them. Web-browsing for example, is probably cheaper using GPRS (You're paying for the size of the page you downloaded, not how long you then spend looking at it) When Orange launched the "WAP Access Pack", it was available as EITHER CSD or as GPRS. The former gave you 200 minutes a month, the latter gave you 10 megabytes. Spending 200 minutes connected to WAP in a month is EASY. Downloading 10 megabytes of (basically ASCII text) WAP is almost physically impossible. (I worked out at the time that it equated to something like 45 copies of Shakespear's longest play - Hamlet... a measure that slowly came into wide usage from the rest of my 156 colleagues!)