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BicPen

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I'm considering going mobile and it would be much appreciated if someone who is using the PCMCIA device, and is very mobile with it could comment on performance and coverage here.
Thanx
 
i have heard not such great reports from that device however i am on the base unit one and am generally quite happy.

Lets hope someone who has the actual pcmcia will comment.

Good luck !
 
I have the pcmcia card and works fine for me where ever i go as long as the signal is great. Habe found it to have a bit of a weaker signal gain than the desktop unit. Then I might add that I have use it in a car @ 120kmph, wasnt driving !! Signal seems come and go thou @ that speed, most likely coz the signal is not like cellphones yet, covering every area.
 
BicPen, if you don't use a lot of GB why not consider GPRS/EDGE. This is the ultimate in portability and coverage, but cost R500 per GB. Much better and much more reliable than iBurst!
 
Hi BicPen

I have both the UTD and the UTC(pcmcia)...

While the UTC generally has worse performance charateristics it does work quite well (if the signal in the area is decent)...

The UTC seems to make my notebook a tad battery hungry but all in all a good investment if your primary area of movement is covered by iburst.

If you're looking for extreme mobility rather look at Vodacom's 3G option ... if there's no 3g it switches to gprs ... so even if speed's not great you are at least connected.

Just my 2c's worth

R
 
swordfish1 said:
BicPen, if you don't use a lot of GB why not consider GPRS/EDGE. This is the ultimate in portability and coverage, but cost R500 per GB. Much better and much more reliable than iBurst!
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are u serious????
 
regardtv said:
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If you're looking for extreme mobility rather look at Vodacom's 3G option ... if there's no 3g it switches to gprs ... so even if speed's not great you are at least connected.

Just my 2c's worth

R
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I will be testing Vodacom's 3G soon, and will be giving feedback regular-like in the Vodacom Broadband forum, I got the 3G Data Card yesterday [on loan for MyADSL testing], I just need to get myself a PCMCIA adapter for the PC it will live in :).

My involvement with the MyADSL Vodacom Broadband forum has given me some insight into Vodacom 3G coverage versus iBurst coverage & mobility, my observer status impression is that Vodacom 3G would be much better for mobility than iBurst :).
 
IC should be interesting. One thing though, please remember your brothers in other parts of the country. 3G coverage in Durbs seems a bit thin, if you need someone to test, my laptop would happily swallow one data card for a few weeks.
 
don't forget the GPRS option as well ... it works everywhere where there is a cell phone coverage! So besides satellite, there is nothing more mobile than that!

Provided both your cell phone and your laptop do have bluetooth, it is as easy to connect to internet as opening your laptop, double click on the connection icon and pressing Connect! Nothing needs to be switched on on the cell phone so you don't even need to get it out of your pocket ... it is so cool !!! No cables no crap and it works everywhere!
 
Daveogg said:
IC should be interesting. One thing though, please remember your brothers in other parts of the country. 3G coverage in Durbs seems a bit thin, if you need someone to test, my laptop would happily swallow one data card for a few weeks.
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LOL :D

Yeah I'm also waiting for a promised laptop - partial payment for GINA coding I did 2 years ago on a security project...:( - I really want to go mobile with the 3G Data Card & get a feel for the service on the move :).
 
swordfish1 said:
don't forget the GPRS option as well ... it works everywhere where there is a cell phone coverage! So besides satellite, there is nothing more mobile than that!

Provided both your cell phone and your laptop do have bluetooth, it is as easy to connect to internet as opening your laptop, double click on the connection icon and pressing Connect! Nothing needs to be switched on on the cell phone so you don't even need to get it out of your pocket ... it is so cool !!! No cables no crap and it works everywhere!
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well the phone needs to be on, and you do need a gprs accesspoint, plus in most cases you'll need to type the initialisation command yourself and dial up to *99#, which can be confusing for some as well as set up a blue tooth com port for dial up, which again can be confusing, so its not all apple pie and fluffy rabbits, and then of course you pay per MB and get 2.5KB/s, so its slower than dial up
 
slim, I wanted to say that once everything is configured, which is a once off per cell phone and laptop/desktop, everything just works, and is just a matter ot clicking about 3 times to get connected, without typing any weird stuff ... at least my setup works like that, in 3 clikcs I am connected from my laptop ...

also, I normally keep my cell phone on, so if you normally keep your cell phone off then yes, you need to switch it on obviously! So you need to switch you PC/laptop on as well ... but I guess you need to do that for iBurst as well, right ...

the speed I was getting from MTN was about a dial-up modem speed or even better ... definitely 5+ KB/s with no fluctuations ... so it works very well for me ... and I can even use my ICQ properly on it, somthing that I couldn't do with iBurst! I used GPRS for one weekend while I had iBurst because I needed to chat urgently with somebody and I couldn't with the iBurst due to being diconnected after every single message I sent, so GPRS did the job and it costed me something like R3 for whole day chat.
 
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