Using Skypephone S2 as modem with Laptop - SOME progress but not there yet!
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From: Roger Mills on 1 Feb 2010 08:14 In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Theo Markettos <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > In uk.telecom.mobile Roger Mills <watt.tyler(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> The *bad* news is that it insists on connecting at 115,200 bps - even >> though the dongle always connects at 3.6Mbps. >> >> When I go to Network Connections and look at Properties for the S2 >> modem, it's max speed is set at 115,200. It allows me to change it >> to around 900k (that's the highest it offers) - but when I re-start >> the modem, it's back to 115,200 - even after a re-boot. > > Most dongles/etc are set up to look like RS232 devices, but they don't > actually send data via RS232. So the baud rate is irrelevant - > you'll get whatever it can do, whether that's 7.2Mbps HSDPA or 9600 > bps GSM. > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work like that! If I do a speed test when it says it's connected at 115k, it reports 0.1M in both directions! By following the suggestion made by Dex in another post, I've managed to get it to connect at 921,600 bps - but it still insists it's a modem, associated with COM4! I can't get it to connect at 3.6M like the dongle does. Anway, the speed test is now giving 0.9M down and 0.3M up - which is, at least, useable. [TBH, I've rarely got anything better than this with the dongle, even though it synchs at a higher speed] -- Cheers, Roger ______ Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks. PLEASE REPLY TO NEWSGROUP!
From: Roger Mills on 1 Feb 2010 08:22 In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Steve Terry <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote: > "Graham." <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message > news:hk6ib4$9c0$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> "Roger Mills" <watt.tyler(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message >> news:7smh2rFibbU1(a)mid.individual.net... >>> I've reported on earlier occasions that my laptop always crashed as >>> soon as I connected my S2 to it, even though the S2 worked ok with >>> my desktop computer. >>> >>> The *good* news is that I have finally got the S2 to connect to the >>> laptop without crashing it. I have done this by creating a Profile >>> in which I've disabled all hardware which I don't actually need when >>> connecting to the internet - including CD drive, floppy drive, >>> serial and parallel ports, and internal modem. [Some time when I've >>> got nothing better to do, I'll add them back in one at a time to >>> find out which one is responsible for the crashes]. >>> >>> The *bad* news is that it insists on connecting at 115,200 bps - >>> even though the dongle always connects at 3.6Mbps. >>> >>> When I go to Network Connections and look at Properties for the S2 >>> modem, it's max speed is set at 115,200. It allows me to change it >>> to around 900k (that's the highest it offers) - but when I re-start >>> the modem, it's back to 115,200 - even after a re-boot. >>> >> Go to a speed-test web-site and check your real-world up/down speed. >> You might be surprised >> at the result. >> Graham. >> >> > Indeed i use www.speedtest.net to test my S2, and as you say the USB > speed settings makes no difference. > > For some reason my defaults to 480kbps > > Steve Terry I *have* done a speed test - please see my other post. When it says it's 115k, it *means* it! This is verified by trying to watch streaming graphics on the BBC News website - where I keep getting pregnant pauses while it refills its buffer! As reported in the other post, I've now dragged it up to 900+k, and it's useable - but I can't get anywhere near the dongle's 3.6M synch speed. Oh, and another interesting discovery. My dongle works with a 3 metre USB extension lead, so I can put it up high or out of a window. The S2 *doesn't* - at least partially cancelling out the fact that it's supposed to be a more sensitive modem. -- Cheers, Roger ______ Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks. PLEASE REPLY TO NEWSGROUP!
From: Steve Terry on 1 Feb 2010 08:55
"Roger Mills" <watt.tyler(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:7so2s7F51uU1(a)mid.individual.net... > In an earlier contribution to this discussion, > Steve Terry <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote: > >> "Graham." <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message >> news:hk6ib4$9c0$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>> "Roger Mills" <watt.tyler(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message >>> news:7smh2rFibbU1(a)mid.individual.net... <snip> >>> Go to a speed-test web-site and check your real-world up/down speed. >>> You might be surprised >>> at the result. >>> Graham. >>> >> Indeed i use www.speedtest.net to test my S2, and as you say the USB >> speed settings makes no difference. >> For some reason my defaults to 480kbps >> Steve Terry > > I *have* done a speed test - please see my other post. When it says it's > 115k, it *means* it! This is verified by trying to watch streaming > graphics on the BBC News website - where I keep getting pregnant pauses > while it refills its buffer! > > As reported in the other post, I've now dragged it up to 900+k, and it's > useable - but I can't get anywhere near the dongle's 3.6M synch speed. > > Oh, and another interesting discovery. My dongle works with a 3 metre USB > extension lead, so I can put it up high or out of a window. The S2 > *doesn't* - at least partially cancelling out the fact that it's supposed > to be a more sensitive modem. > Cheers, > Roger > > It seems for some reason your S2 isn't forcing it's own default network settings? My S2 works on a 3 meter USB lead whereas my ZTE dongle doesn't! Anyway, you can bluetooth the S2 and put it up high, but then you'd be limited to around 1mbps d/l Steve Terry -- Get a free Three 3pay Sim with �2 bonus after �10 top up http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276 |