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Could you watch the world cup on your phone?

The BBC are streaming all their matches on their website... Possibilities???

Doubt it would work due to bandwidth issues.

chrisredmayne said:
The BBC are streaming all their matches on their website... Possibilities???
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Do you have a link, might work with WiFi.

It won't matter come Sunday when your team is knocked out. Never mind the BBC might broadcast Eastenders instead... :wink:

hmmm, using orb? slingbox?
i watched today brazil ANNIHILATE japan right from my wizard at work.
I was the hero there today. Seriously.

No problem watching Ghana kick the US's backside around the field with a slingbox and mobile on the wizard. Even used ESPN HD just to see if I could.

reading on the slingbox it says 256Kbps upstream speed required (for out-of-home viewing), how did it show on ur wizard?

Explain how this is possible and what I need to do please?

Orb
I use orb to stream my tv, movies and music to my 8125 while I'm at work. Luckily we have a g based wifi access point that has a decent downstream to get good quality streams set up. Even with EDGE speeds I can only sustain a 60-100kb/sec stream. This is okay for music, but is no good for streaming live TV. You have to set up a "server" which is basically a Windows XP Media Center Edition box with a compatable TV Tuner card. Orb runs a program on your PC that uploads and streams the live tv, or basically any media stored on that PC to anywhere that has internet access. Make sure you setup your firewall to allow the orb desktop client server access. Everything should be golden after that. I recently droped my broadband service and have been leeching off of a neighbor's access point and have noticed some significant deterioration in the quality of the streams I get through orb. I'd reccomend that the PC with the Orb server runing not be connected via wifi for the most unrestricted access to upload bandwidth. Just check out http://www.orb.com for info and how-to set up the PC. On the pocet pc side you just go to the link above and type in your username/pass and select what you want to stream... Works like a charm.

radici said:
reading on the slingbox it says 256Kbps upstream speed required (for out-of-home viewing), how did it show on ur wizard?
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Slingbox works fine over wi-fi. I have my slingbox hooked up to a DSL connection with something like 800k up - I forget actually - and when I go to a local cafe with wi-fi I can watch TV just fine on my MDA, even flipping it on its side to display landscape. It can control my directv PVR just fine.
It'd be hard to follow a soccer match real well, the ball would be hard to see I think.

radici said:
reading on the slingbox it says 256Kbps upstream speed required (for out-of-home viewing), how did it show on ur wizard?
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Slingbox works fine over wi-fi. I have my slingbox hooked up to a DSL connection with something like 800k up - I forget actually - and when I go to a local cafe with wi-fi I can watch TV just fine on my MDA, even flipping it on its side to display landscape. It can control my directv PVR just fine.
It'd be hard to follow a soccer match real well, the ball would be hard to see I think.

We may be able to use the bbc's stream after a bit of poking around If someone can post me a link on there web site to the stream I have a look, to give you a idea here's one I found after abit of poking http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/nb/wm/video/heads_nb.asx Ive used that for the last few years, great for a quick news update.

ok not perfect.... but im still looking for the narrow band feed
Live BBC One coverage: Germany v Sweden
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/sport/live/bb/wm/video/ukonly/sol_now6a_bb.asx
or Radio Five Live Feed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live.asx

radici said:
reading on the slingbox it says 256Kbps upstream speed required (for out-of-home viewing), how did it show on ur wizard?
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I get the occasional jerkiness but overall, it does very well. It's impressive enough that I paid the $30 for the remote viewer app. Note that this is using T-Mobile's EDGE network. I don't think the 256 kbps matters a whole lot when the download speed is a lot less than that. I bought the slingbox so I could watch TV from the backyard patio using a laptop but since the PPC app was a free trial download, I figured I'd give it a shot. Now I'm completely hooked. I suppose your mileage may vary given network usage, EDGE speed in your area, blah blah blah etc and so on ad nauseum, but it works great for me.

Free Mobile Broadband [For your Laptop]

Ever wanted to have a fast internet connection that will let you surf the web, play online games (Like World Of Warcraft), without being limited by a Ethernet cable, or wifi range? Well, read on...
What you'll need:
- Sprint With Power Vision Access (15.00 a month)
- A Windows Mobile phone
- A laptop
- A mini-usb to usb connector
First, boot your phone up, and disconnect all usb cables from the phone. Connect to the internet Via IE, so a live webpage is opened. Click Start > Programs > Internet Sharing. Remember that the USB cable is not connected to the phone at this time. Once in internet sharing, make sure to choose "Sprint PCS" from the Network Connection option. Click "Connect". Your status should read "Connected" or "Check USB connection". At this point, you can connect the USB, and windows will automatically load the drivers, and connect. Once your phone reads "Connected", you can open up your favorite browser, or anything else that may require an internet connection, and go at it. You've just skipped out on the $39 monthly tethering charge.
I've actually done this with my Mogul, and got speeds between 1100-1300kb/s down and about 300kb/s up.
Good Luck!

You know they can tell if you tether still... so if you use a lot of data they could catch you

Where the hell that country support this broadband ???

ermenzegna said:
Where the hell that country support this broadband ???
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I swear, I have no idea what you said...

Corrykid said:
I swear, I have no idea what you said...
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which country support this broadband ?
i'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous bcoz i think it's impossible at my country

It should be supported by sprint, anywhere.

Corrykid said:
It should be supported by sprint, anywhere.
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But he's in Indonesia.

Does Indonesia have Sprint?

Corrykid said:
Ever wanted to have a fast internet connection that will let you surf the web, play online games (Like World Of Warcraft), without being limited by a Ethernet cable, or wifi range? Well, read on...
What you'll need:
- Sprint With Power Vision Access (15.00 a month)
- A Windows Mobile phone
- A laptop
- A mini-usb to usb connector
First, boot your phone up, and disconnect all usb cables from the phone. Connect to the internet Via IE, so a live webpage is opened. Click Start > Programs > Internet Sharing. Remember that the USB cable is not connected to the phone at this time. Once in internet sharing, make sure to choose "Sprint PCS" from the Network Connection option. Click "Connect". Your status should read "Connected" or "Check USB connection". At this point, you can connect the USB, and windows will automatically load the drivers, and connect. Once your phone reads "Connected", you can open up your favorite browser, or anything else that may require an internet connection, and go at it. You've just skipped out on the $39 monthly tethering charge.
I've actually done this with my Mogul, and got speeds between 1100-1300kb/s down and about 300kb/s up.
Good Luck!
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This is a feature built in WM, however, don't get it confused. If you're running the standard Sprint ROM, they can detect you tethering, so don't be surprised one day to get a large bill.
But, agreed this is a easy way to connect, but you may want to look at some custom roms, or research other options if you need to use this.
Oh, btw those speeds must be a typo. I'm using Sprint and currently connected using Internet Sharing and while I might occasionally get 1MB download speeds, I average around 400Kbps - 800 Kbps in Hampton Roads, VA area
Where are you located?

Dude, this is a feature of the phone. Like, it's in the manual. We know.

Corrykid said:
Does Indonesia have Sprint?
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I wish we have Sprint.
There are some unlimited broadband offer but all sucks (even we can't get real 3G / HSDPA speed right here)

i'm waiting for my touch and just joined sprint... how many months have you been tethering?

I've been tethering for about a year and a half now.
I live in the seattle area, and i've gotten 2.4mb/s once.

wait is this thread dated 2006 and for some reason just showing as new???????

HAVE u TrieD
in 2006 when Vodafone was lanuched in S.A they had a free Unlimited Internet However it only worked through proxy and was only limited to the phone when tryin to tether it brought a blank page. So When you change UA 0n IE or FireFox to Like Nokia6680/2.0 It w0rkeD so change maybe changing UA of the browser SPrinT May n0t b able to detect if ur tethering you could also try www.your-freedom.net it worked when vodafone live was ristricted to Phone Browser UA

Not restricted anymore, by the way.

...I hit 3mb/s today.

what a lucky guy. 3mb wow!

how to "open ports" in android/g2?

So I've recently been trying to wirelessly tether my g2 to my xbox360 to play live but I constantly get an error back saying my "NAT type is strict".
I can play games anyways that way but it is very slow and laggy and annoying. From what I read up about that error, I need to enable a few ports. Found here: http://www.xboxliveaddicts.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=24450&st=0 and also a few other sources....so question is, is there any way possible to do this on the g2 in place of a router as said in the directions?
Please help, not being able to play live seamlessly is terrible.

I have no idea but I do know that trying to play live through your phone is a terrible idea. The latency on these networks is not what you want when playing online or are the the speeds consistent enough. Trust me when I say this. You are going to pony up and get a real broadband connection for that. If not the lag is going to be extremely unbearable for the most part. The hspa+ network isn't built for it yet. Now true 4g will but that down the road quite a bit.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2

I agree with the last poster. Latency makes it completely not worth it. I don't know about opening the ports, but I know I used to be able to to use internet connection sharing on a laptop tethered to my windows mobile phone years ago to connect, but it was too slow to play anything. But if you're dead set on trying it, that would probably be your best bet. Tether the phone to a laptop via usb or wifi, then share the connection via ethernet.
I wish it was workable. I'm in the Navy and our computer network blocks many streaming sites so I use my phone and a laptop to watch netflix on slow duty nights. Would be great to be able to play Halo at work that way, but don't see it happening for a very long time.
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Dear OP,
You're the reason our data is throttled. Thanks bud.
-Conn

connnn said:
Dear OP,
You're the reason our data is throttled. Thanks bud.
-Conn
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Actually, anyone who has their data throttled would be their own reason.
With any type of internet connection, there will always be heavy users...
...at least as long as there is porn on the internet.

etjrowe said:
Actually, anyone who has their data throttled would be their own reason.
With any type of internet connection, there will always be heavy users...
...at least as long as there is porn on the internet.
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i second that. i love flash. stupid g1 could never handle it.

[Q] Epic 4g and PDAnet.

I have successfully tethered my epic to my computer and can download at about 40kbps from the device. (Even 3g in my area is poor)
Now that is not really that important to most people but considering my max download speed with my DSL is 130kbps it makes a huge difference.
Now hypothetically with both DSL and PDAnet connected I should be achieving somewhere around 160kbps.
I am using Vista and both connections are active and show up in the Network Manager but It doesn't seem I can "combine" the bandwidth of the two. I have tried "Merging" the connections and also "Bridging" them.
For example I'm downloading a steam game right now. Its at a steady 128kbps I can look at the status of each of the connections and it doesn't seem I'm pulling anything from the phone. But when I disconnect the DSL I can pull 40 from the phone.
I know its slim pickins on both ends but any extra bandwidth I can get will help. Why can't I combine the bandwidth of the two successfully?
By the way, this is my first post here. I got my epic about a month ago and have been lurking ever since. I look forward to hanging around here more and thanks for any suggestions in advance.

You are going to need to share that connection via wifi to a wireless adapter hooked into a dual wan wireless router with your dsl hooked into the other wan input.
While hooked up you will most likely have to disable dhcp and somehow manually configure the ip's on both connection to the router with load balancing enabled.
In my opinion this is hardly worth any of the trouble and alot harder than what I think you would be willing to want to deal with in the long run.
I would consider possible upgrading your dsl a little faster and just consider your cell connection a convenience for when you need it elsewhere other than home.

Yeah doesn't sound worth it...
1.5mb DSL is the highest available connection here which is what I have.
I've been complaining for 3 years about it heh..
Thanks man..

Tethering testing - CM7 vs PDAnet

I find myself in a decent 4g area, with nothing to do, so I decided to see if there was any reason to run PDA.net (which I paid for a while ago) now that I am on CM7.
My phone was connected to 4G, and the same USB spot on my laptop. I even rested on my table at the exact same spot for each test. I used Speedtest.net to hit the nearest server. I ran 6 tests first wirelessly tethered, then through PDAnet tether, then wired CM7 tether. Then I ran two tests each back through the list, to make sure time was not a factor on the speeds, then one test each again.
Here are my results, tossing out the highest and lowest test for each one. Upload appeared to be capped, as on many tests it would be climbing high and then hover right around 1mbit.
CM7 Wireless: Ping = 95.67; DL = 3.77 mbit; UL = 1.05 mbit
PDAnet: Ping = 98; DL = 4.40 mbit; UL = 1.07 mbit
CM7 Wired: Ping = 96.14; DL = 6.19 mbit; UL = 1.00 mbit
Conclusion: For some reason, wired CM7 crushed the other two on download. Even when going back and forth between tethering methods, CM7 Wired produced better results. In fact, after all the tests, even the lowest outlier for CM7 Wired (5.17mbit) was higher than every other test for the other two methods. Upload as I said appeared to be capped, and have negligible difference. Ping as well seemed to be within error for all three methods, though the lowest I recorded (83) was on CM7 wired.
Thats it, thought I might share, and hope that someone else has done their own experiments. If so, what did you find?

Nice work. Makes me wish even more than I was in a 4g area so I could tether and get rid of Comcast... but then I wouldn't be able to use my phone and computer online separately.

rstuckmaier said:
Nice work. Makes me wish even more than I was in a 4g area so I could tether and get rid of Comcast... but then I wouldn't be able to use my phone and computer online separately.
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You can use both when you tether. It just is using the same stream of bits, so you cant do intensive stuffs on both.

rstuckmaier said:
Nice work. Makes me wish even more than I was in a 4g area so I could tether and get rid of Comcast... but then I wouldn't be able to use my phone and computer online separately.
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I tether 4g for my internet connection. I also share the tether to my 360 so I can play xbox live. I can take a phone call, play words with friends, and load a web page on my pc, all while in a game of halo or CoD.
This phone is just awesome.
-Just warming up!