ISP Review - The Mobile Internet

ISP Review looks at wireless Internet access usng a mobile phone

The Mobile Internet
By Mark 'Winter' Jackson : Aug 30th-2002 : Page 5 of 7

"the connection will be slow (10 to 12Kbps) and thus it’s wise to find miniature versions of larger sites"


By now you should be having some success, at the very least your phones display should show some activity as the PDA attempts to dial via either IrDA or Bluetooth. Your PocketPC should also show the following, or something similar:

If not then there’s not much we can do to help, the three key settings are above and the rest can vary from device to device, please do not ask for help. If you don’t know what’s wrong then you shouldn’t be attempting this.

What can/can’t it do?

Having successfully, we hope, engineered a connection to your ISP then you’ll now be wondering how the rest works. Simply use any web-browser or E-Mail client as you would do normally, type a URL in and surf to it.

Note that the connection will be slow (10 to 12Kbps) and thus it’s wise to find miniature versions of larger sites, you shouldn’t expect the connection to handle full web pages. Try ISP Review’s miniature version as a test in Pocket Internet Explorer (IE):

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/avantgo.shtml

 

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