connections

or absence of.

anything interesting happened last week?


BTW, anyone know if I can link the 'pooter to the GPRS mobile phone to
provide an emergency non-landline-based connection?

I can of course do wap on the mobile, and I can in fact divert my email to a
yahoo box and read it via the wap phone, but only if I know in advance that
I have to do that - once the landline has died, it's too late :-(

but on the face of it, it should be possible to link the pooter to the GPRS
- and if so, how?

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too" Sir Francis Drake (1540? - 1596) Attr. saying when the Armarda was
sighted, 20th July 1588

Austin Shackles wrote:

>
> or absence of.
>
> anything interesting happened last week?
>
>
> BTW, anyone know if I can link the 'pooter to the GPRS mobile phone to
> provide an emergency non-landline-based connection?
>
> I can of course do wap on the mobile, and I can in fact divert my email to
> a yahoo box and read it via the wap phone, but only if I know in advance
> that I have to do that - once the landline has died, it's too late :-(
>
> but on the face of it, it should be possible to link the pooter to the
> GPRS - and if so, how?
>

Depends on the handset, but in general principles, yea - it's quite easy to
do.

P.
--
1992 200 TDI Disco - heavily modified
1982 V8 Range Rover - heavily corroded
2000 Rover 75 - heavily driven
1993 Lexus LS400 - just plain heavy on fuel

On Sat, 14 May 2005 14:12:14 +0100, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>or absence of.
>
>anything interesting happened last week?
>
>
>BTW, anyone know if I can link the 'pooter to the GPRS mobile phone to
>provide an emergency non-landline-based connection?
>
>I can of course do wap on the mobile, and I can in fact divert my email to a
>yahoo box and read it via the wap phone, but only if I know in advance that
>I have to do that - once the landline has died, it's too late :-(
>
>but on the face of it, it should be possible to link the pooter to the GPRS
>- and if so, how?

You'll need a connection method, cable, bluetooth or wan and then run
the modem software on the phone. Or in other words, RTFM.

--
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spouting bollocks on Usenet since 1997
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On Sat, 14 May 2005 14:12:14 +0100, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>but on the face of it, it should be possible to link the pooter to the GPRS
>- and if so, how?

It's easy if you have ir ports on both. I run my laptop with an orange
mobile, it works out quite expensive at a quid a megabyte. I've no
infra red devices on the desktop pc though.

You first need to configure the modem link in the phone menu to ir
com, then activate it and see if the pc picks it up. If it does then
you create a dun using the guff your phone provider gives you for its
gprs service, orange will provide this over the phone as you set it
up. I see my phone supports usb also but I have not tried this.

AJH

On or around Sat, 14 May 2005 15:53:08 +0100, MVP
<mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Sat, 14 May 2005 14:12:14 +0100, Austin Shackles
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>or absence of.
>>
>>anything interesting happened last week?
>
>well I'm -1 land rover and Nige is +1 land rover...
>

coo. well done. It looked on the cards, innit.

I've been thinking again about the transit/rover hybrid. All I need to do
is price it up and persuade the council to give me a contract that'll pay
for it (and the inevitable bank loan to build it) over say the next 3
years...

hmmmm. might be a bit "flying pig". However, the run I do for the council
has potentially 2 new anklebiters on it; this puts me into PSV territory as
I'd need minimum 9 passenger seats. The alternative (for the council) is to
employ another 4-seater car - but that's likely to cost 'em a lot anyway.
Might make a serious effort to price it all up and suggest it to 'em...


That's if I can't persuade someone else to buy one first; from which I can
make money to make one for me as well

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young / In a world
of magnets and miracles / Our thoughts strayed constantly and without
boundary / The ringing of the Division bell had begun. Pink Floyd (1994)