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Jim,

The Siemans S46 is not a phone that I am particularly familiar with, but I
think that it is fair to say that your data rates will greatly vary.
You need to discuss with your provider the expectations about data rates
that you may have. CDMA technology may have very high latency, meaning that
things may take a long time to load.
Now, I am not sure what you mean by "only getting online via Internet
Explorer". What other applications do you use?

If you could do some preliminary diagnostics for me, that would help me
understand your situation. Could you do the following?
1 Click Start
2 Click Run
3 Type "command"
4 From the command window type: ping -w 60000 www.google.com
You should see the results in the form of either replies or timeouts. If
you could tell me what sort of time is being returned.
Anything larger than 1 second is a long time. CDMA times can be up to
several minutes I have been told. I advise you to talk to your phone
provider about these problems and tell them that you are seeing
very slow data access times.

Now, this is your data access problem. When you mention faxes, you are
referring to the fax/modem capabilities of the telefone, I assume. Now,
using the software coming with the phone
should provide you with a fax client. Such a piece of software would
basically pickup the phone and act like a fax machine, allowing you to save,
view and print out your received faxes. Now, Windows XP doesn't come with
that software, and I am guessing that your phone might.come with this
software. Once you install it, you should be able to do all the faxing you
want.


--
Brian Wehrle
bwehrle@online.microsoft.com
Software Test Engineer/Wireless Networking
Microsoft Corp.


"jim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I just baught a Siemans S46 and the data cable so
> I can go on line with my laptop while in my Semi Truck or
> from our charter boat. It has been nothing but a headace
> and lots of time. I at times can get on line only via
> internet explorer. But even that is so slow one day it was
> 15 minutes to fully open page and the next page was about
> 10 minutes. Most of the time it can not open any sites.
> My laptop is a Compaq 2100. no infared. Anyone
> able to help. I am thinking of spending ton of $$ and go
> Qualcom. I need to send and recieve FAXS also from my
> truck or boat via this laptop. I have a new HP 4215 fax
> scaner printer for helping me with this. I have not
> figured how to send/recieve fax with it pluged into the
> laptop and no phone landline. thanks for the help