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Recieve/send texts via my broadband wireless modem, (mobile signal/reception is poor).
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AL_n
May 16, 2012, 5:24:10 AM5/16/12
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I was wondering if someone could advise me on this: My house is in an area
that has very weak coverage, by any mobile network. So it is impossible to
carry on a fluent text chat with anyone.
So I am wondering, is there a way I can send and receive the texts to my
phone, by, say, connecting wirelessly to my broadband modem?
Alternatively, is there a way I can set up a computer program so that my
texts are received, via the 'net, on my PC?
I know that some mobile service providers let you send texts, via the web,
to mobile phones. So perhaps the reverse can also be set up somehow?
This might work for me provided the program provides a ringer alert whenver
a text is received.
Many thanks...
Al
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Adam
May 19, 2012, 3:38:45 PM5/19/12
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On Wed, 16 May 2012 09:24:10 +0000, AL_n wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could advise me on this: My house is in an
> area that has very weak coverage, by any mobile network. So it is
> impossible to carry on a fluent text chat with anyone.
Try femtocell, it's basically a mini mobile cell station that plugs into
> I was wondering if someone could advise me on this: My house is in an
> area that has very weak coverage, by any mobile network. So it is
> impossible to carry on a fluent text chat with anyone.
your broadband connection.
AL_n
May 19, 2012, 4:54:27 PM5/19/12
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Adam <ad...@example.com> wrote in
news:hbqdnS7oz49YayrS...@supernews.com:
>> I was wondering if someone could advise me on this: My house is in an
>> area that has very weak coverage, by any mobile network. So it is
>> impossible to carry on a fluent text chat with anyone.
>
> Try femtocell, it's basically a mini mobile cell station that plugs into
> your broadband connection.
Thanks... That looks promising. Hopefully the price of these will come down
eventually.
Al
news:hbqdnS7oz49YayrS...@supernews.com:
>> I was wondering if someone could advise me on this: My house is in an
>> area that has very weak coverage, by any mobile network. So it is
>> impossible to carry on a fluent text chat with anyone.
>
> Try femtocell, it's basically a mini mobile cell station that plugs into
> your broadband connection.
eventually.
Al
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JoRob64
May 20, 2012, 6:42:32 AM5/20/12
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"Peter" <occassional...@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
>
> The Vodafone one (Suresignal) works and is only �50 but needs to open
> a number of ports in your router. I could not get it to work so sent
> it back; they have been extremely slow in refunding the money.
The Vodafone Sure Signal was being sold for �20 (I think) some time ago.
Perhaps they will reduce the price again.
I know some people have had problems getting it to work but I've been
fortunate in that it has been a plug'n'play experience for me. I've had
mine for nearly 12 months and not had any problems (so far!).
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Chris Blunt
May 20, 2012, 10:54:41 PM5/20/12
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On Mon, 21 May 2012 00:20:55 +0100, Phil W Lee <ph...@lee-family.me.uk>
wrote:
>>I think the GSM boosters are a better solution because they work with
>>visitors' phones also. I got mine from
>
>Ah, the reason for your posting becomes clear.
>Rather amusing, given the fake email address you have put in your
>headers.
I don't see how this has anything to do with it.
Nobody with any sense puts their actual email address into messages
which they post on newsgroups because it eventually gets harvested by
the spammers.
Chris
wrote:
>>I think the GSM boosters are a better solution because they work with
>>visitors' phones also. I got mine from
>
>Ah, the reason for your posting becomes clear.
>Rather amusing, given the fake email address you have put in your
>headers.
I don't see how this has anything to do with it.
Nobody with any sense puts their actual email address into messages
which they post on newsgroups because it eventually gets harvested by
the spammers.
Chris
Chris Blunt
May 20, 2012, 10:54:41 PM5/20/12
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On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:49:27 +0100, Phil W Lee <ph...@lee-family.me.uk>
wrote:
>>The Vodafone one (Suresignal) works and is only �50 but needs to open
>>a number of ports in your router. I could not get it to work so sent
>>it back; they have been extremely slow in refunding the money.
>>
>Why should they refund just because you don't know how to configure
>your router?
Because they are required to do so under the Consumer Protection
(Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.
Chris
wrote:
>>The Vodafone one (Suresignal) works and is only �50 but needs to open
>>a number of ports in your router. I could not get it to work so sent
>>it back; they have been extremely slow in refunding the money.
>>
>your router?
Because they are required to do so under the Consumer Protection
(Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.
Chris
JL
May 21, 2012, 6:44:55 AM5/21/12
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On May 21, 3:54 am, Chris Blunt <m...@nospam.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:49:27 +0100, Phil W Lee <p...@lee-family.me.uk>
Three are also offering a femtocell solution, but keeping rather quiet
about it and only offering them to customers complaining about
reception as far as I can tell. www.three.co.uk/homesignal
EE are currently trialling one which will be able to be used with both
Orange and T-Mobile phones - hopefully we'll hear more about that
shortly.
And as for the VF SureSignal boxes, they can be had for £20 with
relative ease, or often free if you are at the end of your contract
and say you want to leave for coverage reasons! £50 is a rip off.
> On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:49:27 +0100, Phil W Lee <p...@lee-family.me.uk>
about it and only offering them to customers complaining about
reception as far as I can tell. www.three.co.uk/homesignal
EE are currently trialling one which will be able to be used with both
Orange and T-Mobile phones - hopefully we'll hear more about that
shortly.
And as for the VF SureSignal boxes, they can be had for £20 with
relative ease, or often free if you are at the end of your contract
and say you want to leave for coverage reasons! £50 is a rip off.
Chris Blunt
May 21, 2012, 11:40:45 PM5/21/12
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overseas and using it in another country? This might be something
useful for expats to use, or even people traveling abroad. You could
hook it up to your hotel's in-room internet and use your mobile just
as you would in the UK, but without the roaming charges.
I realise it would probably be illegal in most countries.
Chris
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Matt Haigh
May 22, 2012, 3:51:52 AM5/22/12
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On 2012-05-22 06:55:19 +0000, Peter said:
>
> I don't think femtocells are a great solution because when *you* are
> at home you can use your home phone (which you have to have anyway to
> get the ADSL needed for the femtocell - unless you are hooking it up
> into next door's wifi ;) ;) ;) ) and the femtocell is unlikely to work
> for most of your guests/visitors - and if they are on the right
> network you still have to register their phone numbers.
It's obvioulsy not as good as having real mobile coverage, but it has
its uses. I work from home most of the time, in a village with rubbish
mobile coverage on any network. By using Vodafone's femtocell I know
that (most of the time!) people can contact me on my business mobile.
At my level in my industry it is pretty standard to just have a mobile
number for contact, as it is expected that you are likely to be
travelling and out of the office. I could do things like divert the
mobile to my home phone, but that would affect my family (and risk one
of the kids answering an important business call).
It isn't 100% reliable though - for a few days last year my phone was
saying it was connected to the network fine, and would make outgoing
calls, but all incoming calls went to voicemail and texts didn't
arrive. That was worse than it simply not working at all - especially
as my incoming calls are sporadic so it's not unusual for a couple of
days of no calls. This was a fault that affected many (not all) users,
not just me.
>
> I don't think femtocells are a great solution because when *you* are
> at home you can use your home phone (which you have to have anyway to
> get the ADSL needed for the femtocell - unless you are hooking it up
> into next door's wifi ;) ;) ;) ) and the femtocell is unlikely to work
> for most of your guests/visitors - and if they are on the right
> network you still have to register their phone numbers.
It's obvioulsy not as good as having real mobile coverage, but it has
its uses. I work from home most of the time, in a village with rubbish
mobile coverage on any network. By using Vodafone's femtocell I know
that (most of the time!) people can contact me on my business mobile.
At my level in my industry it is pretty standard to just have a mobile
number for contact, as it is expected that you are likely to be
travelling and out of the office. I could do things like divert the
mobile to my home phone, but that would affect my family (and risk one
of the kids answering an important business call).
It isn't 100% reliable though - for a few days last year my phone was
saying it was connected to the network fine, and would make outgoing
calls, but all incoming calls went to voicemail and texts didn't
arrive. That was worse than it simply not working at all - especially
as my incoming calls are sporadic so it's not unusual for a couple of
days of no calls. This was a fault that affected many (not all) users,
not just me.
Steve Terry
May 25, 2012, 2:51:21 PM5/25/12
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AL_n wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could advise me on this: My house is in an
> area that has very weak coverage, by any mobile network. So it is
> impossible to carry on a fluent text chat with anyone.
>
The traditional solution is a Nokia 6310i in a Cark91 car kit powered
> I was wondering if someone could advise me on this: My house is in an
> area that has very weak coverage, by any mobile network. So it is
> impossible to carry on a fluent text chat with anyone.
>
with a 12volt PSU. and a exterior gain aerial high up connected to it.
In rural Scandinavia you see tiny 900MHz yagi beam aerials on house
roofs
Steve Terry
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alexd
May 27, 2012, 4:15:27 PM5/27/12
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Chris Blunt (for it is he) wrote:
> Is there anything to stop someone taking one of these femtocells
> overseas and using it in another country?
I heard they had GPS to a) protect revenue and b) synchronise the time, but
> Is there anything to stop someone taking one of these femtocells
> overseas and using it in another country?
on reflection that seems silly because you'd need to have it near a window
to use it, ie in the place most likely to already have a signal.
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Someone Somewhere
May 28, 2012, 3:05:06 AM5/28/12
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On 27/05/2012 21:15, alexd wrote:
> Chris Blunt (for it is he) wrote:
>
>> Is there anything to stop someone taking one of these femtocells
>> overseas and using it in another country?
>
> I heard they had GPS to a) protect revenue and b) synchronise the time, but
> on reflection that seems silly because you'd need to have it near a window
> to use it, ie in the place most likely to already have a signal.
>
Also I suspect they are not licensed to operate them in another country
> Chris Blunt (for it is he) wrote:
>
>> Is there anything to stop someone taking one of these femtocells
>> overseas and using it in another country?
>
> I heard they had GPS to a) protect revenue and b) synchronise the time, but
> on reflection that seems silly because you'd need to have it near a window
> to use it, ie in the place most likely to already have a signal.
>
and have probably had to agree to active methods to prevent that usage
rather than having to individually license each individual owner and
make it their responsibility
Chris Blunt
May 28, 2012, 7:38:38 AM5/28/12
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stop someone taking one of these femtocells overseas and using it in
another country?".
What "active methods" could they use? The obvious one of checking IP
addresses could be circumvented fairly easily.
Chris
Someone Somewhere
May 29, 2012, 3:13:40 AM5/29/12
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1. GPS - Just the equivalent of A-GPS would work - sniff the relevant
frequencies out of the air and send them to a back end server to work
out the location. If you're in clear enough range to do this then it
would probably also be useful for the network to use for local cell
planning and strength adjustment.
2. Look for other mobile networks - if you see non-British networks
(edge cases around Dover aside of course) then it's probably not in the UK.
3. You might be able to still do something with IP addresses -
particularly if you start using UDP or some such which can't be so
easily tunnelled. Or even start looking at round trip times which are
typically hampered by a tunnel.
Someone Somewhere
May 29, 2012, 3:15:38 AM5/29/12
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On 28/05/2012 12:38, Chris Blunt wrote:
Roland Perry
May 29, 2012, 3:44:55 AM5/29/12
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In message <slo6s7l3qe1gpjaou...@4ax.com>, at 19:38:38 on
Mon, 28 May 2012, Chris Blunt <ma...@nospam.com> remarked:
located in [1]. It would therefore be trivially easy to make a femtocell
that only worked in a subset of countries.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Network_Code
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Mon, 28 May 2012, Chris Blunt <ma...@nospam.com> remarked:
>>Also I suspect they are not licensed to operate them in another country
>>and have probably had to agree to active methods to prevent that usage
>>rather than having to individually license each individual owner and
>>make it their responsibility
>
>That's the question I was asking when I said "Is there anything to
>stop someone taking one of these femtocells overseas and using it in
>another country?".
Every cellsite has an ID, and part of that ID is the country it is
>>and have probably had to agree to active methods to prevent that usage
>>rather than having to individually license each individual owner and
>>make it their responsibility
>
>That's the question I was asking when I said "Is there anything to
>stop someone taking one of these femtocells overseas and using it in
>another country?".
located in [1]. It would therefore be trivially easy to make a femtocell
that only worked in a subset of countries.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Network_Code
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Someone Somewhere
May 29, 2012, 9:07:49 AM5/29/12
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On 28/05/2012 12:38, Chris Blunt wrote:
Someone Somewhere
May 29, 2012, 9:09:08 AM5/29/12
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On 29/05/2012 08:13, Someone Somewhere wrote:
>
> If you kept it in a Faraday cage, probably nothing, but otherwise:
> 1. GPS - Just the equivalent of A-GPS would work - sniff the relevant
> frequencies out of the air and send them to a back end server to work
> out the location. If you're in clear enough range to do this then it
> would probably also be useful for the network to use for local cell
> planning and strength adjustment.
> 2. Look for other mobile networks - if you see non-British networks
> (edge cases around Dover aside of course) then it's probably not in the UK.
> 3. You might be able to still do something with IP addresses -
> particularly if you start using UDP or some such which can't be so
> easily tunnelled. Or even start looking at round trip times which are
> typically hampered by a tunnel.
Apologies for the multiple posts - it claimed to time out, so I tried
>
> If you kept it in a Faraday cage, probably nothing, but otherwise:
> 1. GPS - Just the equivalent of A-GPS would work - sniff the relevant
> frequencies out of the air and send them to a back end server to work
> out the location. If you're in clear enough range to do this then it
> would probably also be useful for the network to use for local cell
> planning and strength adjustment.
> 2. Look for other mobile networks - if you see non-British networks
> (edge cases around Dover aside of course) then it's probably not in the UK.
> 3. You might be able to still do something with IP addresses -
> particularly if you start using UDP or some such which can't be so
> easily tunnelled. Or even start looking at round trip times which are
> typically hampered by a tunnel.
again where it did the same, then left it for a few hours and then found
it, and now there are three....
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