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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:21 pm
by TheCatt
So I got bored today and tried to make my cellphone work as a modem.
It worked, but my carrier charges 1 cent per KB, so that seems a bit excessive. The connection was a rocking 230kbs.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:05 pm
by TPRJones
Unless I messed up my math, at full blast that's using up 28.75 cents per second (presuming you used b as bits and B as bytes). Pricey!
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:26 pm
by TheCatt
Yep.
Although, it certainly was not an effective rate of 230kbs, it felt about 28kbs.
I wish I could use the cellphone as a dialup to my unlimited dialup provider. That'd be pretty much free.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:39 pm
by TheCatt
Apparently I used $1.72 worth.
Gotta be a way to do dial-up via the cellphone.
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:59 pm
by 98-1151371563
You can get a G3 card that uses a cell service for broadband access, but check out the ToS.
Sprint, for example, says their service is "unlimited access" but then they say you cannot use it for uploading or downloading streaming video or audio, games or file transfers.