RE: [OT] :GPRS and Laptop User ?

["Rob Mouser" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Davey

Yep, I spend half my working life connected to work via GPRS.
We have two set-ups:

GPRS with O2 -->
Sierra Wireless PCMCIA Card
Static IP Address assigned on GPRS network
PPTP into office for connection to Exchange
For web access I go straight out on the SProviders APN but use
www.onspeed.com for compression of data.

This above is how I use it. My staff have a similar setup accept that they
connect to a specific APN which routes their web access through our
servers.
There is a restrictive policy on checkpoint that then prevents them access
to all but a certain number of sites.

We are just running a trial with something called Optigo which sits between
our Exchange Server on a dedicated box and compresses data. This
significantly improves Exchange use over GPRS and also stops large messages
being downloaded without asking you first.
http://www.bytemobile.com/html/Optigo_products.html
Its seems to be working very well.

With compression speed is equal to a good 56k dial-up "most" of
the time.
But I find the availability and reliability of the GPRS connection can
sometimes vary. I'm a "heavy" user and can easily chew through
8-10mb of
data in a day connecting directly to exchange without the Optigo client!
Expensive, but much cheaper than the hotel dial-up costs!

We have used a company called www.wirelesslogic.co.uk for all our GPRS data
needs at laptop level for several years now and generally they have been
very good.

We've also just signed a deal with www.threex.co.uk to provide enterprise
level GPRS comms with XDA's. Trials in that arena have also worked well.

HTH.

Many thanks,

Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Davey [mailto:DB1001@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 November 2004 13:42
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] :GPRS and Laptop User ?


Sorry for the OT but I'm sure someone out there in HA land is doing this..

GPRS pcmcia/pc-card with a laptop and then connecting to the corporate
network.
What kind of download / upload speeds (for web browsing / downloading) can
you get ?
If you surf the net do you come into your corp. network and then out to the
web or do you hit your telco's network and route to the internet from there
?

Replies off list please.
ta

Davey