3G saved my day
Posted Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 9:15 pm by Arnold Gamboa
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This is 3G in action folks — your day to day problem solving adventure!
Our team has about 18 workstations with 6 of those working on a night shift. We’re connected via Globe Broadband. Yesterday, due to a very dumb administrative failure, we lost our telephone line — and of course, the internet. And when I said “we lost the internet connection”, that means screaming clients and possible income losses.
Globe’s telephone reconnection normally takes 24 hours. We can’t have 24 hours of internet-less office life! No broadband? “Dial up will do”, I told my self. But hey, we don’t have the telephone lines, too, remember? My only way to make us back online is through wireless connections. How?
Around 6 in the evening, I thought of how I would connect my laptop to my N6680 Smart 3G powered phone. I told myself, what if I install the 3G connection from one of the XP machines and then, try to share it across the network?
It actually worked! From 8 pm to about 8 am the next day, 6 computers shared the internet connection from the 3G enabled phone. We averaged 100kbps. Not bad. 12 hours of uninterrupted internet connection. It probably cost me P240 (P10/30 mins x 2 x 12 hours). But, hey, it saved me a lot of explanation to the client and definitely a lot of stress. Lots of lessons learned: one is this feature and the other — keep your phone bills monitored.
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waaah!!!
it seems that kahit anung gawin ko d ako maka connect to online games using my smart 3G connection
any answer to this??
just a tip.. when downloading from a website.. always use download accelerators because the default downloader of the browser is pretty slow when using 3g..
3g saved my day too when i reformat my pc then i forgot to download antivirus. my dial up is pretty slow and i need it fast. so there..
[...] Last night, I made a 3G data call for the laptop for the first time. I was at a place with no broadband and a noisy phone line - dialup is only 28.8Kb/s or so. For casual use, the Smart 3G 10 pesos/30 minutes plan is not bad. [...]
bangus:
The 900KB+ is the USB cable speed.
For the actual speed, you need to look in the Connection Manager (for S60 phones).
joelski:
I couldn’t get the Bluetooth DUN (Dialup networking) to go up, either. I’m using IVT Bluesoleil for the Bluetooth stack.
budda:
For Nokia phones, easiest is to use the USB cable. On Windows, just plug it in and use “Connnct to the Internet” from the PC suite. Everything is automatic from there.
i tried 3G using n70 with windows Xp without service pack. pero bakit parang GPRS lng ang Speed nya? naka lagay sa connection 900+ kbps. pero parang slow paren… bakit kya? may mali ba sa settings ko? i used pc suite to connect.. bakit kaya?
[...] My plan is to buy a 3G enabled phone that could act as the modem for my the computer at the boarding house. I first read this in Pinoy Tech Blog. Smart Communications offer P 10 for every 30 minutes of surfing. But it seems that I have to scrap this plan because Smart now charges an additional P 15 to convert files into HTML. I guess I have to content myself on renting. [...]
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