[Cialug] low speed cellphone data plan

[Jeff Chapin]

Last time I set up DUN (dial up networking) tethering with my cellphone,
it was as simple as 'yum install blueman' then running blue man and
pairing it with my phone -- at which point NetworkManager noticed I had
a new device it could manage. I simply selected the 'Verizon' radio
button, and I was off running, no further setup.

This was at EVDO speeds, so a little faster than what you are looking
at. The last time I looked at prices, it was about $2/MB for pay-as-you
go, $60 for unlimited (see foot note).

Jeff

*footnote* Verizon both refuses to admit that at least some of their
phones are capable of tethering  *AND* are still willing to let you pay
for it if you want. As far as I can tell by 'not able to do tethering'
they mean 'we want you to buy a new, more expensive phone' as I had no
trouble finding the drivers on the LG site, and installing them in 2
different flavors of windows, and using either the USBcharger/VCAST
cable, or blue tooth. In linux it is even easier.



Dave Weis wrote:
> I don't have a data plan on mine but you can install the usb drivers on some 
> phones and use it as a 14.4k modem. For verizon there's a number like #777 
> you call and it does PPP.
>
> David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> said:
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>> I had GPRS (pron: Jeepers) on my T-Mobile Treo 600 a few years ago. It 
>> wasn't really very cheap, but it certainly was low-speed. I don't know 
>> if any of the US GSM carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T), still offer GPRS.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gprs
>>
>> -dc
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>> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
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>>> A while back I was reading about a low-cost data service that used 
>>> cellular networks. From the context I gathered it was widely deployed 
>>> and gets speeds in the range of 32k to 64k and was priced inexpensively.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what this service is called and who sells it? I was 
>>> thinking it was called GPRS but when I search for that I don't find 
>>> what I'm looking for.
>>>
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