Help: Faster speeds when using Sprint phone as modem

[oandapartycock]

So my mom and dad just moved into a 55 and over community and it was built a long time ago, so they can't get DSL or Cable Modem. Time Warner is the cable provider and Verizon is the phone company but being this is retirement community and the infrastructure is so old, neither have plans to install the necessary equipment.

So I upgraded my mom's phone plan to include internet at Sprint's EVDO Rev 0 and have been using that connected via USB to the phone.

It's only getting about 500kbs when you access a site through the computer, but when you run a download test through the phone itself and Pocket Internet Explorer I'm sometimes getting over 1mbs speeds. It's located in an excellent Sprint service area with 5 bars.

I've heard about tweaking the MTU and Latency settings, but does anybody know of a program for WinXP that can configure this stuff automatically?

[WOWmagnet]

Go to broadbandreports.com and do a tweak test.

[Sinn Fein]

You live with your parents in an over-55 community?

[Jef Leppard]

You live with your parents in an over-55 community?

:haha7::haha7::haha7::haha7:

do you have to be home when the lights go out? at 4:30.

try here i know ive seen that topic before http://ppcgeeks.com/ not my site (but same name there)



i think revO is outdated my phone i got in april is revA, you may need to upgrade the rom. theres 3 ways to use your phone as a modem.

1. typical phone as modem (dont forget about the data cap comin next month. you can avoid detection by disabling NAI)

2. log into IE then tehter right away. doing this you will actually be using the same thing as surfing on the phone.

3. turn the phone into a wifi router ( this uses phone as modem as well so disable that NAI) and connect wirelessly.


i use each one of these at anytime and they all give a different speed from time to time.

if its a mogul i can help point you in the right direction.

[Dicktator]

You live with your parents in an over-55 community?


:clap::clap::clap:
yup, still laughing

[thelord68]

Actually, try this if you are using Vista (I enabled my Sprint phone-as-modem for a recent trip) and it helped, but I was using bluetooth.

Vista could be the problem. Broadband download speeds may double or triple when you disable automatic receive window tuning--presuming it is enabled in the first place--it usually is. This is a well know problem with Vista. You can check your tcp global parameters by calling up the command prompt and typing

"netsh int tcp show global"--no quotes of course.

There are 6 setting that are either enabled or disabled. I found that my Vista system functioned best with all 6 disabled. Congestion control is interesting because if it is enabled by you ISP, the data transfer rate is matched to the level of congestion on the net. It seemed to work with Sprint, but the download speed varied from second to second during test downloads--presumable by the realtime congestion. I tried changing the RSS and Chimney parameters, but enabling seem to slow down my system even though it was a dual processor system.

Depending upon your particular situation you may want play with the first 5 to see if they affect your speed. Changing the parameters won't affect anything except the speed that you see. If receive window tuning is "normal" you can disable it by typing

"netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled".

You don't have to reboot in Vista for it to take effect. If it doesn't help then you can reenable it by typing

"netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal".

I set a batch file on my desktop to quickly switch the setting. Make sure the browser window is closed and the data connection has not been made yet when making this change. You don't heve to reboot.

[oandapartycock]

You live with your parents in an over-55 community?

WHEN THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN? :icon_redf

Pretty funny.
But know, I've got a wife and daughter and we live in our own house.

I'm just being a good son, I've paid for their cell phone for years on my family plan and added the data plan for $15 recently.

[oandapartycock]

:haha7::haha7::haha7::haha7:

do you have to be home when the lights go out? at 4:30.

try here i know ive seen that topic before http://ppcgeeks.com/ not my site (but same name there)



i think revO is outdated my phone i got in april is revA, you may need to upgrade the rom. theres 3 ways to use your phone as a modem.

1. typical phone as modem (dont forget about the data cap comin next month. you can avoid detection by disabling NAI)

2. log into IE then tehter right away. doing this you will actually be using the same thing as surfing on the phone.

3. turn the phone into a wifi router ( this uses phone as modem as well so disable that NAI) and connect wirelessly.
i use each one of these at anytime and they all give a different speed from time to time.

if its a mogul i can help point you in the right direction.

I upgraded to the Mogul a couple of months ago and have the latest Rev A firmware too, and I use it like you said there.

They got my old HTC/Audiovox PPC-6700, which the Mogul replaced. I don't think the 6700 is upgradeable to Rev A.



Actually, try this if you are using Vista (I enabled my Sprint phone-as-modem for a recent trip) and it helped, but I was using bluetooth.

I set a batch file on my desktop to quickly switch the setting. Make sure the browser window is closed and the data connection has not been made yet when making this change. You don't heve to reboot.

Their computer is XP. Will that work on it?

PS- I like running a batch once in a while on my computer too. :rolleyes:

[Jef Leppard]

fuckin moguls badass tho aint it?

[Sinn Fein]

WHEN THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN? :icon_redf

Pretty funny.
But know, I've got a wife and daughter and we live in our own house.

I'm just being a good son, I've paid for their cell phone for years on my family plan and added the data plan for $15 recently.

I just got confused by this sentence:

So I upgraded my mom's phone plan to include internet at Sprint's EVDO Rev 0 and have been using that connected via USB to the phone.


It made it sound like YOU were the one using the phone for internet access.

[oandapartycock]

I just got confused by this sentence:

It made it sound like YOU were the one using the phone for internet access.

Classic case of omitting a personal pronoun. My Grammar Nazi card may get revoked.

I wish more people would have gotten the Fleaman/GPS reference over in the GPS thread that I posted after your bump...:mad4:

Anyone else have any other ideas? I tried broadbandreports' tweaker and ppcgeeks.com and those things didn't help.

I thought I remember seeing someone posting a program in this forum about a program that analyzes your current connection and makes adjustments to your registry and other things.

[Sinn Fein]

An Aircard should get faster speeds, but it would cost more than the $15/month for the data package you added to their phone subscription.

[Digital_Trauma]

I have a Sprint Aircard, Pantech PX500. and also use my company phone as a modem through a program called PDA net 4.12. PDA net is nice because you don't have to pay the "phone as a modem" fee. Sprint has no knowledge of it. This particular phone, a Treo 755p, has an unlimited data plan through our corporate plan. The aircard account costs me about $60 a month, which I'd get rid of at this point, but I'm under contract for another year. The speeds are very similar. The aircard will be faster one day, the phone will be faster the next, seemingly randomly. It's sort of like when you have two people with cell phones from the same company and one gets really good reception, and the other doesn't.

[Jef Leppard]

the problem with the sprint aircards is next month they get capped at 5gigs (like all the others) same with phone as modem users. word is they wont really enforce the cap they may just cancel you.

[thelord68]

The 5 gigs sucks. In a few days of using my phone as a modem, not downloading or streaming anything - just using remote desktop and browsing, I racked up over 150mb of usage. I could see blowing through 5 gigs easily if I used it like my normal connection.

[oandapartycock]

fuckin moguls badass tho aint it?

Fo' Sho!

the problem with the sprint aircards is next month they get capped at 5gigs (like all the others) same with phone as modem users. word is they wont really enforce the cap they may just cancel you.

Be a good way to get out of your contract.