is this utter rubbish or what they told my misses if she buys the touch 3g it will connect ot out home wifi and boost signal as we have a low signal reception on orange in our area can anyone explain this to me and how my rhodium can do this also?
it wont boost your signal but obviously you will be able to suft the internet at much higher speeds just switch on your wifi in settings, it should give you a list of availible routers, pick yours, enter the wep key and your up and running
on that note I wonder how hard it would be to hack a, say, DD-WRT firmware set of routers to allow a repeater over the internet (for non tmobile users and their wifi calling! GRR)
I would love to modify a wifi router to catch CDMA/GSM instead of broadcast 802.11, then set it up VPN style to connect to another router that then broadcasts the signal instead of 802.11 (yes i know repeaters exist, but im talking miles away)
wow, first post here and I made myself a winter project! I have plenty of friends who would love to test it with me too ^^
now to avoid the red tape!
What they are talking about is UMA (google it for details) which basically allows you to route GSM traffic over an Internet connection via WiFi.
It's supported on Blackberries, some non-smart-phones (dumb phones), and the touch 3G. It's not supported on any of the other WM or Android devices.
Maybe someone on here can mod up a ROM for the rhodium to support this? It would need the radio from an Orange build of the Touch 3G. There may be other aspects to this as well.
yep the dude who likes trees is right - UMA is only supported on certain phones - one model of nokia, most blackberries and one model of HTC device - The Touch 3G. As far as I was aware though you need an Orange Livebox in order for it to work (Orange's broadband router).
It seems to work as I have a number of users using it at home with work provided phones (mainly crackberries) in areas of no orange reception- but from what I've heard in terms of feedback they're Orange Livebox isn't that great at range and also picks up allot of interference (one user regularly complains it keeps dropping connection).
thanks everyone that was what i thought. i will just have to get a nice ilegal orange gsm repeater on ebay then
My work blackberry works UMA over any wireless network that I have connected to, none of them are orange boxes or orange broadband.
At work we have mostly BT broadband with various routers and wifi access points - Draytek, cisco, dlink, 2wire from bt and at home I have talktalk with huawei and linksys access points.
Just wish I could get uma for other win mobile.
MG
matttytn2 said:
is this utter rubbish or what they told my misses if she buys the touch 3g it will connect ot out home wifi and boost signal as we have a low signal reception on orange in our area can anyone explain this to me and how my rhodium can do this also?
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It's not technically correct, but might in effect be true if your phone supports UMA. This effectively routes a GSM call over your WiFi/ADSL and then via internet in Orange's circuit-switched core network. As a result if you previously could not make calls in your home on GSM, magically you now will be able to when within range of your router. They market the service as Unik or Unyk phone.
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It's not technically correct, but might in effect be true if your phone supports UMA. This effectively routes a GSM call over your WiFi/ADSL and then via internet in Orange's circuit-switched core network. As a result if you previously could not make calls in your home on GSM, magically you now will be able to when within range of your router. They market the service as Unik or Unyk phone.
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By the way the Orange UK Unyk/Unik service does not need an Orange Livebox or ISP to work - it is the "open ISP" variety of UMA
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Anyone know how to be able to Talk on the Phone (Using Voice) while tethering to a PC / Mac , I know I can talk on the phone while using PIE and other internet based applications on the Treo, but NOT WHEN I HAVE IT TETHERED via Dial-up Networking (either via Bluetooth or USB). Basically I have tried both, and am using a MacBook Pro, and successfully tethered to the internet through both BT and USB but it HANGS UP if I make a call (and I presume it hangs up when I receive a call), but either way it does not treat the TETHERING the same as using INTERNET on the Treo, is this just some Registry entry thats causing the problem or something?
Please help I have been trying 10098098034298 things to get it to work; however I only have a VERY limited knowledge of Windows Mobile 5.0 and am pretty useless. If someone could even just give me insight on what settings or registry entry(ies) deal with this I could play around with it an post any results once I stumble upon them...
Thank you so much in advance!!!!!!!!!
It all depends on the network connection you have.
GSM/GPRS doesnt support Voice and Data where UMTS does.
Make sure that you have a 3G connection.
Yes I do have a 3G connection, this same thing (Tethering when using Voice) works on my LG CU500 flawlessly both when using USB and BLUETOOTH to tether, no drop in speeds and voice is crystal clear.
Not sure if its the way in which I am dialing up or something, or if its some bug in the 750. let me know if you guys can helop. [email protected]!
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It all depends on the network connection you have.
GSM/GPRS doesnt support Voice and Data where UMTS does.
Make sure that you have a 3G connection.
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Go to Menu>Preferences>Phone Settings and select the Services tab. Select the band selection and make sure to turn off auto and bind to UMTS only. If you are in auto and connected to GSM network and try to place a call while connected to DUN, thte call should suspend for a total of 13 minutes before disconnecting. If you are selected to strict UMTS then you should be OK for DUN and voice.
Sorry if this is obvious and/or been asked before, but when I am in range of my home wireless LAN does the phone (a TP2) automatically use the free LANor does it have to be manually told to do so each time I use the internet etc ?
My old N95 used to auto switch to contract inet when there were no WiFi signals and wonder if WM6.1 does the same.
Thanks.
Hi guys I recently lost my cable service and I've been relying on my inspire for wifi around the house lately. I thought I'd share a few tidbits with you that I've gleaned from the experience.
My inspire is running cyanogen mod 7 nightlies and I found that it only broadcasts wifi on channel 6 - very annoying because most routers ship with channel 6 as the default (at least here in the US)
This means that if there are wifi networks near you your range is going to be unpleasant. If you have a wireless router in your house make sure you change it to channel 11 - that tends to significantly decrease interference issues between the two devices. Pick up a free wifi analyzer program in the market it will let you scan all the networks in the area and show you the free channels - very helpful if you're setting up a network in an apartment complex! Just keep in mind channel 6 needs to be free near your phone if you're tethering otherwise you'll suffer from some drastically reduced range and speed.
My wireless router is running dd-wrt and can broadcast on channels 12-14 as well - European and Japanese standards. The FCC probably wouldn't like it but it can seriously push my wifi out of the way of other networks. The inspire can NOT SEE THOSE CHANNELS. Not even with cm7 - I believe a kernel or radio fix could be implemented which would be nice.
I've tried bridging and sharing my wifi tethered desktop with the rest of my network but I've run across a few serious issues with the windows 7 network stack. It hates the fact that I have and use so many networks and network adapters. I'm going to push my luck some more but at the moment I'm content having finally gotten them to work together at the same time so I can stream some movies to the other systems in the house while tethered with my phone.
The most annoying issue I've found lately is that at&t seems to be monitoring my use of unusual ports. Every few days I find that many applications I depend on stop having access to the internet over the tethered connection - the ports get blocked - all but port 80 which only allows basic browsing. The best way that I've found to fix this is to shut the phone down properly, pull the battery, and turn it back on. It seems to lose it's specific network address and gain full port access again.
Just some food for thought guys, I thought I'd share this stuff with you because of the issues I've had making it work. Maybe it will help others to be less frustrated.
Here is a list of wishes:
The ability to change the broadcast channel while tethering
The ability to view, use, and broadcast on channels 12-14
The ability to increase transmit power by a few mw through a userland interface
Thanks for the info and I'm really sorry you lost your cable service
Me too - this economy sucks
Interesting info. What app are you using?
i'm dealing with this weird issue,
i have set up a wifi network in my home consisting of a router and a repeater,and they have now eliminated the dead spots in my home.
I tested whether mobile devices can switch to the nearest access point when they are moved,while they are connected to the wifi network
laptops switched to the nearest access points as they were moved
unfortunately my arc was not able to...it depended on the same access point as it moved away, even if i keep it next to the repeater it would not pick it's signal.
this would happen the other way around as well if i connect via repeater and bring the phone near the router it would not pick router's signal
any work-a-rounds
HELP!!
Also running doom kernel i had to flash the wifi modules could this have affected in anyway
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I know this post is a bit old...but a good solution for this issue is Best Wifi:
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Do you have a WiFi extender in your home or office, or even a second WiFi Access Point Name (APN)? You do? Then ‘Best WiFi’ is for you!
‘Best WiFi’ is a lightweight application that automatically switches between saved APNs based on their signal strengths. So if while you are pacing in the office or walking around at home, and the signal strength drops below the pre-set level, ‘Best WiFi’ will go through your saved APNs and automatically connect to the one with the best signal at the time.
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This app works well to switch between different saved SSIDs that are listed in Android and has eliminated the issue of losing connectivity on my home network due to my phone staying connected to a weak signal and losing its ip address/not surfing.
Thank you
Same problem here, but this app does not do make any difference
Useful app, you deserve a "thank you"
With all the Wi-Fi and processing power of our phones, I wonder if we can actually make one big Wireless mesh network using our phone's Wi-Fi.
Is it possible?
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With all the Wi-Fi and processing power of our phones, I wonder if we can actually make one big Wireless mesh network using our phone's Wi-Fi.
Is it possible?
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It is possible. But wifi range limit range is going to limit the network in size if it got it to work. Also most androids phone dont have ad-hoc so wifi mesh would not been seen by other users. My old windows 5 phone works with wifi ad-hoc but android does not.
They are to apps that try do network meshing open garden which will use bluetooth and The Serval Mesh which makes calls over wifi.
open garden shares your internet with other open garden users.