GPRS

I finally jumped off the fence and got Orange to start my GPRS account. 5MB over a month; 15UKP charge.

In their wisdom, Orange UK don't support any platform other than windows, so I had to go through several hoops in order to get the APN and user/pword details out of them. More bizzare: OS X doesn't supply modem scripts for the T68i despite the seamless support it offers for syncing and updates. Luckily Ross Barkman supplies some very tidy resources for the phone (not to mention most other models) on his homepage. This made my life much easier, and everything worked first time once these were dropped in /Library/ModemScripts.

The GPRS seems to work as advertised: 4.6-4.8k sec sustained while downloading, which is more than enough for what I intend to use it for (email and journal updates whilst on the move). The one thing I don't like is the habit the connection has of dropping out. I'm not sure if that's Orange being crap, or my setup, but it is slightly annoying to have to reconnect every 5 mins if the network stalls. I suspect there's probably some more tweaking of the settings to do, but without any official word from Orange it's hard to tell where to start...

Regardless, downloading my email at 70MPH on the motorway was very cool. ;-)

Life

I'm now officially on holiday for a week, hopefully to catch up with some of the work I've neglected to do over the last month or so on my various projects. I also want to do some more OGL hacking, as most of the developers I'm working with atm are moving over to OGL for their next projects. The more I know about this, the easier I can make everyone's life. :-)