OK another question from the ranks of the computer novice.
Just started my new job, to play FFXI and check the boards from work, I will need a wireless phone card. Now that brings up the question of what plan to get, they want to know what MB I need. How do I figure this out?
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Hmm...I still can't figure this out! Please any help would be appreciated, long hours of call without the computer make me very sad.
Well, what do you mean about wireless card. are you talking a card for a laptop that uses cell phone bandwidth to communicate, or a standard wifi internet connection card so you can connect to a coffee shop or something?
They do make cell phone modem connections, but they are generally really, really expensive. Generally, the newer nokia and moterola phones will act as a modem for a computer with a USB data cable (or bluetooth) but doing so uses minutes just like a phone call.
If that wasn't what your question was, please let me know.
Congrats on the new job by the way!
They do make cell phone modem connections, but they are generally really, really expensive. Generally, the newer nokia and moterola phones will act as a modem for a computer with a USB data cable (or bluetooth) but doing so uses minutes just like a phone call.
If that wasn't what your question was, please let me know.
Congrats on the new job by the way!
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A card for a laptop that needs cell phone band width. I can't figure out what they mean by bandwidth useage. Is it the time you spend online, or the amount of bandwidth needed to run the game?
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The term bandwidth is used to describe the amount of data you can push across a connection at any given time.
With a greater width frequency band allocated to you, you can move more data in a given period of time. For this reason it has come to mean the "speed" of your connection.
Does that help?
With a greater width frequency band allocated to you, you can move more data in a given period of time. For this reason it has come to mean the "speed" of your connection.
Does that help?
The card is a cell phone, it just fits into the side of my computer. It looks like a wireless network card.
My choices are 2OMB-40MB-70MB-300MB
Additional kilobytes $.002 each
My choices are 2OMB-40MB-70MB-300MB
Additional kilobytes $.002 each
bigger number = faster connection, but they may charge you more.
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It seems they want to charge you for the amount of data that you will download per month instead of the bandwidth you want to reserve, similar to how they would charge you for each minute you use a cell phone instead of a home phone line you can use whenever you want.
If so, you'll be spending way too much to play any online games over that connection.
If so, you'll be spending way too much to play any online games over that connection.
If I use it at the hospital, it is tax deductable. So I should go with 300MB then, correct?
So would i need more than 300mb to run FFXI? They will give me a special businees rate for all our laptops. I am the only one playing FFXI, but several of my partners game on EQ.
When a company advertises the bandwidth they can offer you, they will do so in terms of theoretical maximums of bit per second transfer rates at the hardware level.
A regular phone modem connection operates at a theoretical maximum of 56 kilobits per second(Kbps).
ADSL subscriptions will generally guarantee you 512 or 768 Kbps.
Cable subscriptions settled for a while around 1.3 megabits per second(Mbps) and are starting to move it up to 3 Mbps.
When you say the options you are given are
it doesn't make much sense in terms of bandwidth because that would be between 8 and 100 times faster than a cable connection, probably enough to support your entire hospital.
It does make sense in terms of download volume, ie. you can download 300MB worth of data each month and after that we will charge you (approximately) two dollars for each additional MB.
Just want to make sure you understand what your signing up for Red.
Edit: I really couldn't tell you how much data is downloaded in an hour of playing EQ or FFXI.
Edited, Fri Oct 29 11:34:28 2004 by highRfrequenC
A regular phone modem connection operates at a theoretical maximum of 56 kilobits per second(Kbps).
ADSL subscriptions will generally guarantee you 512 or 768 Kbps.
Cable subscriptions settled for a while around 1.3 megabits per second(Mbps) and are starting to move it up to 3 Mbps.
When you say the options you are given are
Quote:
2OMB-40MB-70MB-300MB
Additional kilobytes $.002 each
Additional kilobytes $.002 each
it doesn't make much sense in terms of bandwidth because that would be between 8 and 100 times faster than a cable connection, probably enough to support your entire hospital.
It does make sense in terms of download volume, ie. you can download 300MB worth of data each month and after that we will charge you (approximately) two dollars for each additional MB.
Just want to make sure you understand what your signing up for Red.
Edit: I really couldn't tell you how much data is downloaded in an hour of playing EQ or FFXI.
Edited, Fri Oct 29 11:34:28 2004 by highRfrequenC
To answer your question:
Most cell phone providers run a filter now to keep people from using cellular protocol to dial into dialup servers. It used to be that you could connect your cell phone to your laptop using a card and dial an access server. Of course, the bandwidth using cellular protocol was at best 12kbps.
Nowadays, wireless providers provide their own data connections using GSM or CDMA cellular signal. (Please note, if your phone switches to analog or TDMA signal for whatever reason you will lose your data connection) the amounts of MB you listed do not refer to bandwidth, they refer to overall data transaction. GSM bandwidth can be comparable to DSL whereas a CDMA data connection will be upwards of 70ish kbps. Slightly faster than dialup.
What several posters have written are correct. They will charge you for the amount of data total was transferred (also note that this would be both upstream and downstream traffic ADDED to each other) Although, I cannot give you an estimate as to how much information you would be transferring while playing FFXI I can say that it would be a lot. If I were you I'd start out with the 20MB plan and play FFXI for a total of 10 minutes for one month just to see what the charge to your limit would be. Then you could adjust your plan accordingly. You're probably talking big money though. So, wisdom would suggest an experiment to see whether it's prudent to play a game over such a pricey connection or not.
Most cell phone providers run a filter now to keep people from using cellular protocol to dial into dialup servers. It used to be that you could connect your cell phone to your laptop using a card and dial an access server. Of course, the bandwidth using cellular protocol was at best 12kbps.
Nowadays, wireless providers provide their own data connections using GSM or CDMA cellular signal. (Please note, if your phone switches to analog or TDMA signal for whatever reason you will lose your data connection) the amounts of MB you listed do not refer to bandwidth, they refer to overall data transaction. GSM bandwidth can be comparable to DSL whereas a CDMA data connection will be upwards of 70ish kbps. Slightly faster than dialup.
What several posters have written are correct. They will charge you for the amount of data total was transferred (also note that this would be both upstream and downstream traffic ADDED to each other) Although, I cannot give you an estimate as to how much information you would be transferring while playing FFXI I can say that it would be a lot. If I were you I'd start out with the 20MB plan and play FFXI for a total of 10 minutes for one month just to see what the charge to your limit would be. Then you could adjust your plan accordingly. You're probably talking big money though. So, wisdom would suggest an experiment to see whether it's prudent to play a game over such a pricey connection or not.
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