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Has anybody tried driving around within the MyWireless coverage area with a laptop on the passenger seat connected to MyWireless while say, streaming audio? Now that would be an interesting test - to see how reliable the connection is to the network while on the move.

Post your findings plez?
 
Yip, tried it, it holds the signal until you hit about 80 kph then drops it, it also does not swicth base stations without dropping the connection. [:D]

Keep Surfing
 
I would place a bet on it if you ride around the same tower,
you'll have absolutely no problem.

It's quite basic.
You stay in signal area it will work. You leave it, it wont.
So if you gonna go down to the shops, and taking your laptop to listen to music online, there's no reason it should not work. The stability is not a problem, it's a problem staying in range.

I download from IS with a laptop in my car .... but anyways :)
If you want to go down to the shops, in style ...
Get a nice car or chick. The car's cheaper though :)
 
I have done this. Perhaps not streaming audio. Maybe next time [:D]

All I can say is that it didnt disconnect once and everything still worked great. Obviously if you drive away from one towers footprint into another then it disconnects to search for the new tower. If you circle the tower you get the same effect because of the different tower sectors.

I think streaming audio will work fine.

It has no real use though since you can only use it for a maximum 10km drive before disconnecting. So if you <i>really</i> want to stay connected while driving to your friends house then yes it will work.
 
Pity that it does drop the connection from tower to tower. I wonder what it would take to adapt the modem to search in advance and switch towers without dropping the connection like cellphones do. But then, I don't think they intended for people to drive around with laptops connected to a wireless network in their cars all the time.

But this does, however, open up possiblities for people to have net access in their cars where the passengers can surf while on a long road trip.
 
It's not supposed to drop the connection, I'm pretty sure that's a flaw in the firmware. The whole thing about ipwireless is the "Internet at Highway speeds"

I think it's time sentech speak to ipwireless about the issues we're having.

If the coverage is good enough (like cell phones) then you should be able to stay connected everywhere.

I connect with GPRS on my cellphone, and I can drive around and stay connected

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About the modifying to search ahead. I dont know if it's possible to modify a modem to search ahead, doesnt it handle only one connection at a time ? You know, dinosaur type technology?

But now 2 modems would be perfect. And a custom proggy ofcourse
 
I don't think modifying the modem to enable this, but as flashvc said, it is possibly a flaw in the firmware.

GPRS does the trick well I heard, but don't even get me started on GPRS! I thought ADSL was expensive, GPRS is the biggest rip-off EVER!
 
IPWireless claim that the modem can do cell-switching at speeds of up to 120kp/h.

Whether the RAS connection will stay up during a cell switch though, is another question altogether. I'm not to sure if the actual PPP device is hosted at each base station, or whether there is a central PPP device. Perhaps ProAsm can shed some light on this.

Regardless, I doubt few people really need constantly on connections whilst driving around at 120kp/h. In fact, it'd probably be more dangerous than driving around with a cellphone glued to your ear. [:D]

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Regardless, I doubt few people really need constantly on connections whilst driving around at 120kp/h. In fact, it'd probably be more dangerous than driving around with a cellphone glued to your ear. [:D]
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Especially if you were surfing Pr0n ! :)

A total laymans question I have I'll post here, because I don't want to dedicate a topic to it and get sent down in flames, but...

would it be possible for Sentech users to form a sort of WAN ?
IOW, connect to each others machines via the Sentech modem at high speed - i.e. the max. speed the connection allows, regardless of connection type ?

I guess that would be a huge NO, due to security concerns and the architecture of the Sentech backbone, but it's worth a thought...

I know that there is some sort of wireless node activity for enthusiasts in this country, altho nothing on the scale of the US.

It would be cool if the modem could be adapted to custom purposes of this nature.
 
As RoDent says, its not designed to be mobile as on the move while you compute in a moving object like a car or train.
And whatever IPWireless claims it still disconnects from one signal and logs onto the next - if you have auto connect ticked.
And even if it were to do this automatically, again as RoDent says, its doubtfull whether a RAS connection would cope with it.



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Considering that the modem drops and reconnects if you switch sectors ie 0 -&gt; 120 so driving around the tower causes the signal to switch (we tried this) and thus its pretty useless for mobile access.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by TheRoDent</i>
<br />The modems, unfortunately, don't support UUS1, or "user to user signalling", which is part of the 3G standard.

Would have been nice though eh?

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Awesome in fact !

I wonder if there's anyway to hack that ?
Hmm, ok, silly question :)
 
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I wonder if there's anyway to hack that ?
Hmm, ok, silly question :)
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If we could reprogram the firmware on the modem, you could essentially ask it to do anything. But the towers would still blatantly ignore it.

I am, however not interested in programming teensy weensy little ASIC processors with an insane assembler. I doubt anyone is, aside from maybe the engineers at IPWireless... [:)] The UUS1 has been left out of the microcode completely, so it'd basically mean having to implement it yourself in any case ... Eek!


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I just like to point out this from the umtstdd.org site:
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Mobility:
UMTS TDD subscribers can stay connected while traveling in excess of 120 km/hr, so long as they remain within the network footprint. Tower-to-tower handoff, and network-to-network roaming are supported.
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Now, if the ipwireless modems are not doing this, then it must be fixed, otherwise they have no right to belong to that forum....

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Are you using the basic modem antennae, or has anyone rigged up a "car kit" antenna, e.g. on the car roof?
 
Not really, since the RAS connection is to the ppp server which does not sit at the towers and all the lower layer stuff is handled by the roaming ability...exactly like GPRS

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From the reading/research/guessing I've done it would appear that while the modem hardware may well support it the firmware is an entirely different matter.

Some of the other international providers are running newer modem firmware - if it wasn't for my adiction to my 24/7 connection I'd be tempted to install it ....

Guess we'll all eagerly wait to see what's in the IPwireless firmware pipleine....

R
 
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