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James D. Howard
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      09-16-2003, 03:29 AM
I connected a Motorola V66 GSM phone connected to a laptop computer.
I subscribed to T-Mobile/Voice-Stream GPRS, wireless Internet service.
I can connect. The ping times to well connected sites on the Internet
are greater than 750 ms. The connection is too slow to be of any use.

T-Mobile/Voice-Stream has not found a solution. Is any one using this
service successfully? How?


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Thor Spruyt
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      09-16-2003, 01:54 PM
"James D. Howard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I connected a Motorola V66 GSM phone connected to a laptop computer.
> I subscribed to T-Mobile/Voice-Stream GPRS, wireless Internet service.
> I can connect. The ping times to well connected sites on the Internet
> are greater than 750 ms. The connection is too slow to be of any use.


Ping doesn't say much about bandwith. Ping is just the time your data needs
to get to it's destination and back, also called 'roundtrip time'.
GPRS is known to have a high latency, causing your pings with 750 ms, which
by the way shouldn't affect most programs.
This high latency resulted in a very low customer satisfaction, which is why
GPRS never took up as manufacturers hoped. In fact, WAP was better than
GPRS, but WAP was also slower than GPRS! You might want to wait for UMTS,
UWB, or anything else that will come on the market.

Regards,

Thor.


 
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Richard Malcolm-Smith
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      09-17-2003, 09:47 AM
Thor Spruyt wrote:

> Ping doesn't say much about bandwith. Ping is just the time your data needs
> to get to it's destination and back, also called 'roundtrip time'.
> GPRS is known to have a high latency, causing your pings with 750 ms, which
> by the way shouldn't affect most programs.
> This high latency resulted in a very low customer satisfaction, which is why
> GPRS never took up as manufacturers hoped. In fact, WAP was better than
> GPRS, but WAP was also slower than GPRS! You might want to wait for UMTS,
> UWB, or anything else that will come on the market.


WAP is a browsing technology that is pretty damn limited.

GRPS is a transmittion technology.

What you have said it that netscape is better then ethernet.

 
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Thor Spruyt
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      09-17-2003, 10:03 AM
s/WAP/CSD/g

"Richard Malcolm-Smith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thor Spruyt wrote:
>
> > Ping doesn't say much about bandwith. Ping is just the time your data

needs
> > to get to it's destination and back, also called 'roundtrip time'.
> > GPRS is known to have a high latency, causing your pings with 750 ms,

which
> > by the way shouldn't affect most programs.
> > This high latency resulted in a very low customer satisfaction, which is

why
> > GPRS never took up as manufacturers hoped. In fact, WAP was better than
> > GPRS, but WAP was also slower than GPRS! You might want to wait for

UMTS,
> > UWB, or anything else that will come on the market.

>
> WAP is a browsing technology that is pretty damn limited.
>
> GRPS is a transmittion technology.
>
> What you have said it that netscape is better then ethernet.
>
>



 
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Thor Spruyt
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      09-17-2003, 11:05 AM
"David Taylor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > s/WAP/CSD/g

>
> Wap is not Circuit Switched Data.
>
> WAP as a protocol is available over either CSD or GPRS
>


I didn't say WAP is CSD, I said to replace all 'WAP' occurences by 'CSD' in
my text, because you're right!
By the way, if you know it all, why didn't you answer his question then? I
gave him a clear and understandable answer to his question!

Regards,
Thor.



 
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David Taylor
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      09-17-2003, 12:54 PM
> By the way, if you know it all, why didn't you answer his question then?

Time!

David.
 
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