Next G
Submitted: Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 16:55
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Member - Big Al. Gold Coast
Just installed the next G network mobile internet on the laptop ( very fast )
and noticed the Map link on the googal
home page.
Check it out
Reply By: Member RayJen Paj05 (NSW) - Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 19:49
Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 19:49
NextG: I have it and not impressed right now. Here I am in North
Adelaide, 2k from CBD, almost line of sight. Have 5 green bars and the icon says "Edge" which according to BigPond techo yesterday, means I'm in a difficult zone for the thingy to work
well.
Techo did some diagnosis, said I'm operating at 25% of average wireless performance. All for $50 month and I'm here for a month!!
3 minutes for www.bigpond.com to open! ExplorOz site is quick though!!!
Meantime, lightning fast in country NSW,
What the??
Cheers, RayJen
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Follow Up By: Member - Big Al. Gold Coast - Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 20:11
Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 20:11
RayJen,
When I had The 3G set up I found It dropped out a lot and we are surrounded by towers but a move outside and down the road 200m all the bars came on.
When it worked it was very fast same as the next G . The speed of cdma was hopeless but coverage was good.
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Follow Up By: Wingwang - Friday, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:44
Friday, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:44
Sounds like you have a problem of using a firewall other than Windows firewall. Norton, McAfee etc firewalls will not work properly with NextG and cause the issues you are having.
Download and install the latest Bigpond software as there is a new version out with substantial improvements all round.
Here is the link to the Bigpond Connection software. Install don't do anything else. Just run the file.
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Reply By: Member - Andy Q (VIC) - Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 23:18
Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 23:18
G'day, We are sittin' pretty in our camper in a friends front yard, at the bottom of Mt Donna Buang,just before our departure
We bought NextG Telstra Turbo(sorry free as promotion) last week and since then even though I have only two bars on the NextG phone I am still getting 68.9Kbps with the modem, that's better than what I got with my broadband at
home.
andy
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