Vodafone 3G report

mcaul

Yippee - I've migrated from 16.8kbs phone line to 3g wireless with vodafone at 460.8kbs.

Not as fast as standard broadband but hugely superior to what I have had to put up with for months.

Points to note.

New laptops have express card - vodafone doesn't support these yet - I got a second 3G phone and hooked it up using the cables provided. (otherwise the connection could only be made when I'm around with my 3g phone & the wife did not like that!)

Vodafone offer unlimited broadband for €49 /month with fair usage policy - but unless you are downloading hundreds of mb you won't have a problem with this.

Vodafone are working on a USB datacard and this is expected to be out within 3-4 months so you will be able to hook the data cards up to standard PC's.

An absolute cinch to install software and customer service (in newbridge store anyway) was superb.

Overall I can highly recommend it especially if you don't have other broadband options available.

Better still - we are getting our eircom €24 / month line rental cancelled from tomorrow!from

My area is 5km from Kildare town

Sponge Bob

mcaul wrote:

Yippee - I've migrated from 16.8kbs phone line 5km from Kildare town

But you are in Kildare where Intel are, surely these 16.8k lines are not that close to Dublin are they ???? I thought they were a west of the Shannon sort of third or fourth classedness

Dean820

Did you get the data card with this deal? Or can you use both the data card and your mobile with the unlimited deal ?

Sponge Bob

Voda 3g packages and coverage discussed endlessly here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054945911

mcaul

Sponge Bob wrote:

But you are in Kildare where Intel are, surely these 16.8k lines are not that close to Dublin are they ???? I thought they were a west of the Shannon sort of third or fourth classedness

I'm 5km outside Kildare Town past a forest and 5km from the walterstown exchange which has less than 500 lines on it. - So no hope of BB here for forseeable future. And even if they do, I am the furthest dwelling from the exchange and the capability is meant to be approx. 3km


I have bought a ready to go 3G phone and put the data sim into it and hooked it up to the desktop using the USB cord supplied. Data cards only support laptops and only the pcmia slot which is being phased out.

Sarsfield

mcaul wrote:

I have bought a ready to go 3G phone and put the data sim into it and hooked it up to the desktop using the USB cord supplied. Data cards only support laptops and only the pcmia slot which is being phased out.

I'm not much of a techie, but I presume I could do similar using a 3G phone and a PDA such as a Dell Axim (maybe using bluetooth or something)? This would be exactly what I've been hoping for.

osmethod

Pardon Me for asking you this same question again mcaul - what upload speed are you getting against the download speed of 460.8kbs?

Another question - is the data stream continuous or burst or up/down intermittently?

osmethod

niallb

mcaul wrote:

I have bought a ready to go 3G phone and put the data sim into it and hooked it up to the desktop using the USB cord supplied. Data cards only support laptops and only the pcmia slot which is being phased out.

You can buy a PCMCIA slot for a desktop for about €15.
This would allow the card to be used in any machine with a PCI slot.

Not quite on topic, but it should be in a thread mentioning
getting a 3G phone with USB to allow a desktop to use the product.

NiallB

Sponge Bob

he means a pcmcia TO pci adapter card , the card goes IN the pc and the 3g pcmcia card slots into a newly opened hole in the back of your pc , poof.

http://www.yatego.com/hardwarestore24/p,43831756ed427,42f06ea7a42c98_7,pci-pcmcia-adapter-karte?sid=6Y1154384617Y0df530b4fce1708876c

but where can you get them for €15 ??

niallb

I got one late last year in Maplins in Blanchardstown for €13.99.
Plain white box stuff.

Realistically though, that €18.50 isn't far off 15!
eBay throws up a lot at 15-20 even including postage to Ireland.

NiallB

jrey1981

any idea how far you are from the 3G mast mcaul?

bminish

Vodas routing seems to be more than a Little messed up
They supply you with a public IP upon connection but look how it's routed, Via four different bits of RFC1918 Space, Messy to say the least

Ignore the ping times, I am in an area where I just barely get GPRS coverage

# traceroute -n boards.ie
traceroute to boards.ie (82.195.136.250), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  10.4.2.98 (10.4.2.98)  659.726 ms   719.521 ms   797.519 ms
 2  10.4.2.98 (10.4.2.98)  874.528 ms   956.529 ms   1015.525 ms
 3  172.24.12.124 (172.24.12.124)  1093.529 ms   1212.531 ms   1229.531 ms
 4  192.168.32.70 (192.168.32.70)  1348.538 ms   1370.533 ms   1466.526 ms
 5  10.162.172.1 (10.162.172.1)  1548.506 ms *   1978.497 ms
 6  213.233.129.71 (213.233.129.71)  1985.444 ms   1999.517 ms   1994.850 ms
 7  213.233.129.93 (213.233.129.93)  1259.822 ms   1259.462 ms   1275.630 ms
 8  159.134.117.9 (159.134.117.9)  1078.820 ms   1098.429 ms   1217.661 ms
 9  83.71.115.1 (83.71.115.1)  1102.833 ms   1139.480 ms   1221.695 ms
10  83.71.112.170 (83.71.112.170)  1042.829 ms   1120.718 ms   1196.743 ms
11  193.242.111.23 (193.242.111.23)  1107.047 ms   1125.094 ms   1125.252 ms
12  82.195.143.131 (82.195.143.131)  1003.267 ms   1003.258 ms   1018.259 ms
13  82.195.136.250 (82.195.136.250)  1041.258 ms   1059.253 ms   1076.165 ms
[root@tp ~]#

.brendan

jimmycrackcorm

Sponge Bob wrote:

he means a pcmcia TO pci adapter card , the card goes IN the pc and the 3g pcmcia card slots into a newly opened hole in the back of your pc , poof.

http://www.yatego.com/hardwarestore24/p,43831756ed427,42f06ea7a42c98_7,pci-pcmcia-adapter-karte?sid=6Y1154384617Y0df530b4fce1708876c

but where can you get them for €15 ??

Beware of these. Windows seems to have a lot of problems recognising these pcmcia adapters. I have three pcmcia gprs cards for my desktop adapter. they work on first install but on a reboot the device gets mis-diagnosed.