Sanyo 4900 w/ laptop USB connection - Dropping Connections after 1MB

I have the same problem exactly. Sprint tier2 says its incompatability between some of their nortel networks towers and the connection manager software. im going to try making my own connection and using the ping command
ping www.yahoo.com -t-l1

 

I have only had bad news on this issue. When they sold me phone said sure it get wireless connection to a laptop good at good speed.
But phone locks up after few minutes. I don't think the pinging does anything. Techs (I talked to many - laughs) all say that the phones and cables just not there yet and they put their effort into the cards they sell - I don't think they are too concerned about your laptop connectivity unless you buy a data card from them and pay airtime. U read som much contradictory stuff on forums from those fake antenna boosters to special ping sites - bottom line - sprint doesn't have good phones or software to connect to laptops.

 

My connection works flawlessly! I have the 4900 and a Radio Shack cable, and I make my connections via windows XP's dial-up networking (typical PPP connection). As far as I know, I originated the 'ping www.website.com -t -l 1' technique (if you search i am sure you can find my original post), I tried many different independent ping utilities and none of them worked well enough, so I tried the basic ping command with a loop flag. Bingo. Having that annoying DOS terminal window minimized in my taskbar is a bit annoying, but I have never lost a connection while I had ping running. I don't see how you can say that Sprint doesn't have good phones for making wireless internet connections. I am paying $10 a month for unlimited, anytime/anywhere internet access at 2.5 times the speed of dial-up. I have yet to see any such similar offering from any other carrier. The only complaint I have about the service is that annoying image compression when surfing the web. Some pages (most actually) just look so hideous. Recently I have actually been able to make many connections w/o this terrible compression, though, so I am trying to pin down exactly how to eliminate this annoyance. So far it seems almost random.

 

yup.. the continous ping works just fine(i'm running XP). i've been using it for several months now.

btw, the reason you get 70-120 KBPS on the sprint vision is that they do massive amount of compression, esp. to the images. remember that the vision service was designed to allow folks to surf the net on a small phone screen, so all the extra bytes are stripped off. that is not to say that 3G(vision or other) is not capable of higher speeds. my guess is that we will be seeing higher speeds pretty soon, esp. on the laptop PCMCIA cards (to compete with TMobile's wi-fi hotspots)

 

After 10 minutes connected, Sprint sets the timeout to 7 seconds of inactivity.

 

could some1 write a VB prog to minimize a pinging app into the task bar?

 

I downloaded the PCS Connection Manager (7.3MB) in 17½ minutes. That's a .zip file, which responds negatively to further compression. I estimate 25MB/hr is about 83kbps.

 

can anyone tell me what exactly you tipe in the run menu just ping or ping www.yahoo.com-t or what is the exact command? thanx

 

Make sure you are connected first, and then try

ping -l 3 -t www.yahoo.com

Hope that helps. - sheureka

 

What do u mean by the fact that you are using the "basic ping command with a loop flag"??????What is that u tipe in to your run program?... You open up run and tipe" ping......than what??????"what comes after ping What do u mean by basic ping command and what is the exact thing you tipe in? What do you mean by"loop flag"Thanx

 

I want to thank all who posted in this forum. I used to lose my connection allways after about 300kB of activity. As in ...(dropped packet transfers, while everything else looked just fine, including the phone and software). There definitly is something sneaky going on here, since now I am initiating the shortcut for a ping w/ the loop argument, and everything works just fine now. Thanks for the great idea. I can finally use it for what I really needed it for...being able to log into work using a VPN away from home...for work emergencies on my pager rotation.
Thx again.
John

 

I have a little utility that sends out a ping once every 4 seconds. That way I don't hog up a bunch of bandwidth, and can still spend some time reading a web page without losing my connection. All I do is log in with the PCS connection manager and once I am on line, I click on the ping utility and I can stay connected till my battery runs out...At least I say I can I have never gone over 15 minutes yet.

 

I never get dropped while pinging in the taskbar. (Currently at 454, 700 bytes), I run winxp with new connection set at web, web, #777. No connection mgr or future dial stuff. My only complaint is that snapmedia won't find my phone upon login...I'll live with that!

 

I usually use the ping command with my Sanyo 5300. But I recenlty got a 5500 and while in vegas for CES, I just left it on for hours at a time... without pinging and I never dropped a connection. Whats with that? Is that just Vegas, or the newer phone.

Also, I was gettting really fast speeds. I benched at 136k. !!!

 

Yes i never use the ping command anymore either, when i am on the road, airport, car whatever my 5500 doesn't seem to ping me out. i dunno why, i wonder if readylink has anything to do with the new server and system. ohwell im just guessing. lata!

 

Would you mind explaining your 'ping' technique? I am using it manually right now, but thought I saw here some time back that there is a way to create a file that would ping every 3-4 seconds. I know if I just try to remember the text, I'll forget it!
Thanks,
KBG

 

just create txt file and put this in there without the quotes " @ ping -t 216.109.118.76 " and save it as a .bat file and thats all double click it and it will auto ping is that what ya meant?

 

GlockCanMan wrote

What syntax is needed to make the ping every 4 seconds? I've created the batch file, but now need to limit it to only every 4 seconds. Thanks.

Ken

 

The following batch file uses "sleep1.exe" to pause for 5 seconds before pinging one time. I have the file, but I don't know where you can download it.

@echo off
: pingdl
sleep1 5
ping -n 1 216.109.118.76 > nul
goto pingdl

 

gosp, is that what you sent me one time i think? that sleep file etc,,, if so send again m8. irish@illuzi0nz.zapto.org thanks!

 

Please excuse my ignorance, but I am a newbie here and I wanted to start using my Sanyo 4900 with my old winbook laptop.

I have windows 98 and will be buying the cable from Radio Shack. Can anyone tell me step by step how to get started surfing the web on my laptop wirelessly using my cell phone?? I don't even know where to start. I have 2 free months of unlimited vision on my cell phone, and wanted to try it out with my laptop.

Thanks in advance.

 

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Could someone please help me. I am taking a road trip tomorrow, and I would like to be able to get my laptop setup.

thanks

 

First download the drivers and instructions from Sanyo, and then go to Sprint to download the Connection Manager. You want to download the one that says (Vision/PCS Wi-Fi) PCS Connection ManagerSM Software for Airprime PC3200/USB Cables*. Those are the instructions for Windows 98SE. If you have trouble installing the drivers, go back to the Sanyo page and download the troubleshooting file for Windows 98. There are many other ways to do this, but this one is almost foolproof and certainly the easiest if you're not comfortable setting up dialup connections. - sheureka

 

THANKS !!

 

Really you dont need the connection manager from sprint. just use your network connections and setup a new connection to dial #777 with your sprint user and password.

 

OK, downloaded connection manager and driver. All it does is say " Initializing" on the screen, but I can't get a connection. What am I doin wrong!!??