10-18-2002, 05:57 PM
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Pontificator
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Plan A: Make Sure it Works Before Leaving the House
David Berlind, ZDNet, plugs and prays that his HP iPAQ Pocket PC connects to the Internet. In the article "Plug and pray: a wireless experiment goes awry" he moves from Plan A to Plan F trying to beat the other journalists by getting his story in first. It's a good story to read, many lessons to be learned: First, Microsoft and partners has to make Pocket PC connectivity easier. Second, "Connection Manager" has to go. Third, we professionals (including David Berlind) have to learn our way around our tools and make sure they work before leaving the house!
"I went to the connection settings screen. It said something like, "When needed, automatically connect to the Internet using these settings" and it gave me two choices: Internet Settings and Work Settings. Um. Internet? Then, there was another setting that said, "When needed, automatically connect to Work using these settings," and it gave the same choices. Work? Next it asked what my network card connects to, Work or the Internet? Huh? My PC never asks me these confusing questions. I tried every permutation and none of them worked."
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10-18-2002, 06:42 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2002
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Re: Plan A: Make sure it works before leaving the house
Amusing story, and its so damn typical. Just as typical as when ur going to demonstrate somthing (especially for your Palm friends) somthing is bond to go belly up. I hope the projectmanagers at Microsoft read this story. But im sure they already are aware of the [......] connection manager (insert appropriate adjective) :wink:
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10-18-2002, 07:00 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Re: Plan A: Make sure it works before leaving the house
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Originally Posted by WillyG
connection manager (insert appropriate adjective) :wink:
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How about connection mangler :?: 8)
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10-18-2002, 07:07 PM
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Executive Editor
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Wow...
What a great article! It shows, in a very clear fashion, the problems with the Pocket PC today. Microsoft is very "scenario driven", so this article should give them a lot to chew on.
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10-18-2002, 07:08 PM
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Executive Editor
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Re: Plan A: Make sure it works before leaving the house
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Originally Posted by sweetpete
How about connection mangler :?: 8)
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Funny, that's what the MVPs have been calling it internally since we first saw it. :lol:
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10-18-2002, 07:10 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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yeah connection manager can be very frustrating
connect2internet(c2i) makes a great job of cellular connections, they have configs working with 15 operators mainly in europe at the moment
i did some testing for them with the Irish cell phone networks and it turned connecting to GSM, GPRS and HSCSD truely into one tap, really works a treat. last release on their site says they are testing with more operators
Brian Greene
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10-18-2002, 07:19 PM
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Intellectual
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Originally Posted by DubWireless
yeah connection manager can be very frustrating
connect2internet(c2i) makes a great job of cellular connections, they have configs working with 15 operators mainly in europe at the moment
i did some testing for them with the Irish cell phone networks and it turned connecting to GSM, GPRS and HSCSD truely into one tap, really works a treat. last release on their site says they are testing with more operators
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Pocket Presence has had a nice product with the One-Click mobility product. When I tested it earlier this year they had 5 or 6 countires with a variety of networks. It was meant more for OEM's and Network Operators with a configuration tool they didn't provide me, but I enjoyed it. The data was in an XML file which I edited to add the 2 Candian GSM operators and their CSD and GPRS settings.
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10-18-2002, 07:27 PM
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Intellectual
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Completely off topic but...
Completely off topic but i just noticed Jason Dunn is about to pass 3000 posts. As a humble PPC servant and ponderer i just wish to say: Congrats :!:
What level will that bring u up on? "Pocket Pc King", "Pocket Pc ruminator" or maby "Pocket Pc rocker" :wink:
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10-18-2002, 07:29 PM
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Executive Editor
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Re: Completely off topic but...
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Originally Posted by WillyG
What level will that bring u up on? "Pocket Pc King", "Pocket Pc ruminator" or maby "Pocket Pc rocker" :wink:
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Hehe - I'm still just a boring "Site Admin". Although, come to think of it, I think I should come up with something cooler than that. ;-)
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10-18-2002, 07:32 PM
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Intellectual
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Re: Completely off topic but...
Say again, i didnt hear you :lol:
(He *had* 2999 here)
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