LG 5350 cell phone

[Sean Welch]

I received this question and thought it might be appropriate
for others on the list as well.

                                Sean
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Hi, Gordon.

If you have Sprint PCS Vision service you can use an adapter to
attach your computer to the net through your phone.  I use it
regularly on my laptop(s) and get throughput of around 7-12K
per sec.  That's double or more the typical speed of a 56K 
modem (3-5K per sec).  I used gkrellm to monitor the speeds.

I don't have the site addresses on hand at the moment but I 
should be able to dig them up this evening.  The serial cable
was the cheaper of the two -- it cost me right around $35 with
shipping.  The USB cable was more like $60 and (as per the 
thread) I've been unable to get it to work with FreeBSD yet.
I'd love to because it has even faster throughput than the
serial cable I benchmarked.  I use it regularly on my iBook
but I don't have a way to benchmark the speeds on that.  It
does seem to be a bit faster over a shared connection (I set
up the 'Book as a wireless base station hooked up through the
phone).

To see the options I use to dial through the phone (I just
use ppp when I do this), look through the menus on the phone
itself.  Hit the menu button on the initial screen and scroll
up to the "Settings" menu (that's number 8).  Then choose
item 9 ("Setup") followed by item 4 ("Data-In").  You'll see
three menu items to set: "Connection" (off, once, always),
Method (USB, serial), Speed (the middle choice is as high as
you can go for serial, the last will work with USB).

Once you have the cable attaching the cell to your computer
and you've set the cell to allow you to dial out you just
open ppp on the port you've attached to and dial #777 --
there is no username or password to use.  One nice thing 
is that you get a real ip address instead of being behind 
a gateway.

Hope this helps.

I'll copy the list and remove your email address so others
can use this as well.

                                                  Sean

-------Original Message-------
> From: Gordon Zaft
> Sent: 06/12/03 07:15 AM
> To: Sean_Welch at alum.wofford.org
> Subject: Re: LG 5350 cell phone
>
> 
> 
>  Hey, I have one of these phones too.  Where do you
> get the adapters, and what can you do with 'em?
>
> GZ