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* Reply by Jack D. Russell, Sr. <jackru$$ell2@notmail.com>
* Newsgroup: alt.cellular.cingular
* Reply to: All; "GomJabbar" <dkbatson@earthlink.net>
* Date:Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:52:11 -0500
* Subj: Re: GC83 cards on Ebay
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G>Howard Huntley wrote:
>>>I am seeing a flood of GC83 cards on Ebay lately. What are users
>>>replacing those cards with??
G>John Navas wrote:
>> There's nothing better to replace them with. Perhaps those folks
>> are switching from GSM to CDMA.
G>Hmmm. Why switch when these GC83 cards are:
G>John Navas wrote:
>> the GC8x-series is excellent.
G>The cards may be fine or the network might be fine, but the end
G>result often leaves much to be desired.
G>I've described real world conditions that I experience. I use my
G>GC83 card for hours a day. I am glad that I can use something like
G>this to access the internet. And I understand that this is a type
G>of 'Bleeding
G>Edge Technology'. As such, I don't expect perfection. Rolling out
G>the network takes time, and I am hoping that conditions improve, to
G>where I have a reliable connection in more locations.
G>Perhaps a different card would work more reliably, or maybe nothing
G>can be done until Cingular's network upgrade has been completed in
G>the different locations that I use the service. Perhaps some areas
G>will never work well due to factors beyond what Cingular and the
G>EDGE technology can accomplish.
G>The Sony Ericsson GC83 card is not the 'Pie-In-The_Sky' solution
G>that you seem to imply.
G>John Navas wrote:
>> Phase of the moon? Air temperature? Type of background music?
>> Where will it end?!
G>Yeah, right.
G>My other beefs with the 'Cingular Connection Manager' software, I
G>know could be improved in a short time if Cingular was interested.
G>(1) No reset for when the card hangs due to loss of signal. The
G>Sony
G>Ericsson Wireless Manager has this.
G>(2) When the signal is lost, it can take up to a minute before the
G>application to close when you click on the X in the upper right
G>hand corner.
G>(3) When you ask it to search for networks manually, after it finds
G>the network, you pick one, then it has to search for that network
G>again. Why can't it remember the info it just found?
G>(4) The image compression software included is incompatible with
G>Norton Antivirus 2004 and 2005. You can't download incoming e-mail
from a
G>pop server unless you disable 'Scan incoming email' in Norton AV,
G>or uninstall the image compression software.
G>(5) Even though I told the Cingular Connection Manager software not
G>to have anything to do with my 802.1 WiFi adapter, if I have the
G>adapter disabled, a pop-up balloon with a sound pops-up every
G>minute, annoying me.
G>(6) The latest version of Cingular Connection Manager seems to have
G>crippled the option to manually choose the carrier (when this is
G>necessary). The button is still there, but it doesn't work.
G>--------
G>Other than that, the software is OK.
G>You do provide a service on this forum for many users, and that's
G>fine by me. But acting like everything is the end users problem,
G>and not Cingular's, leaves me suspect. By chance are you, or your
wife, or
G>your relative employed by Cingular? If not, do you or they receive
G>any compensation from Cingular directly, indirectly or through the
G>'services' you provide as a second or third party?
BTW:: I wasn't posting on this thread to get help, I was posting to
G>correct misconceptions.
Different areas of the country, different cards/handsets and system
configurations can all be sources of contention. But the technology and
it's capabilities usually remain the same. Your conditions must be
different than John's, or maybe configured improperly. That's no reason
to doubt what he's trying to tell you. There must be some explanation
for your problems when his equipment works correctly, consistently and
yours doesn't. The carrier is the same, the technology is the same and
the equipment is basically the same. What's left?
While I know of no affiliation between John and CW, I do know that John
started this group, wrote the charter, did all of the work (alone) to
get this forum started for all of our benefits.
--
Jack