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Re: [PLUG] Through cell phone to Internet - perpetual mobile contract
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On Sunday 30 June 2002 11:02 pm, kaze wrote:
> Their customer service sucks, but the coverage in the Philly area
> is good, relative to friend's providers.
I've had Cingular and Sprint. They seem to have the same amount of
"dead spots", just in different places. One difference I found, I
attribute to TMDA (Cingular) and CMDA (Sprint and most of the others,
except VoiceStream which is GSM). TMDA/Cingular seems to deliver poor
quality in areas where the signal is weak but not dead. CMDA/Sprint
provides a clear call in weak areas until loss of signal results in a
dropped call. What this means is that with Cingular, I could tell when
I was going to drop a call because the reception would go bad first.
With Sprint, the quality remains good until the call is dropped.
Practiaclly speaking, this "feels" like better coverage.
>
> BTW, my Nokia 6160 will not work with Linux to get a laptop onto the
> 'net...
The laptop software that lets you use the phone as a modem is usually
just a dialer. Have you tried manually dialing your ISP, then manually
starting your pppd?
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