WTB: USB GPRS/EDGE modem

[Arcmanov]

OK, so I have a TSTT data SIM, and I need a permanent solution for true mobile internetz.
I'm currently using it in a cellphone via bluetooth, but the caveat there is that the cellphone
needs to stay charged all the time.

In short, I'm looking for a USB SIM-card adapter/modem like this one.

Does anyone know where I can get one locally?  (...and don't tell me 'that' site.  I looked.  WAAAAY overpriced)

[woodyear99]

I am interested in this as well.

[Arcmanov]

Still overpriced.  I seeing em on ebay for about 35-45US or thereabouts.  I know it not costing nearly 400 TT to ship
one, so at 600 TT...they could keep that.

It look like ebay just might be mih hoss on this one.

[Crixx_Creww]

was looking for printers and they happen to have them
but they outside your price range it seems
http://www.diamond-sys.com/

[Arcmanov]

EGAD!!!  TWELVE hundred!!?

Aw HELL naw!!! 

Its unbelievable how merchants rip people off in 'sweet' TnT.
LOOK at the average prices of these modems...


I eventually purchased this one...which I'm sure are a whole lot better than the ones being sold here.

Thank you ebay, and PayPal.

FIYAH BUN all alyuh local PC/electronics merchants!!!   Allyuh too f@(king TIEF!!!

[Crixx_Creww]

i second that chant of fire
and add a dash or massss fuegggoooooo on top of that

look at the laptop prices on dat same site!! fuueeeeeeggooooooooooooo

although some of the items actually not bad
but things that people actually buy??? fuuuueeeggooo

[Saxito Pau]

look at the laptop prices on dat same site!! fuueeeeeeggooooooooooooo

I have a customer who just bought a 17" laptop for TT$15,000

Sony with Vista Home Premium 64-bit, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, INTEL integrated Graphics

Said laptop is available on Amazon for just US$1200

His use for it?? typing word documents!!! Barely know how to use the damned thing.... upgraded from a PC running Windows.....98 -- with Blink working on it via USB!!

Fugger evaded my queries as to why he chose that laptop and why he didn't ask me for advice BEFORE he buy it. NO, he calls me because he says it kept asking for a "production key" (serial # for Office 2007 trial!!)

Where did he by it? Ask Arc. He ent NEVAH buying there again!!

"____________ you can at ________________"

*ponders to post this in WTMC thread....*

[Crixx_Creww]

aahhaha at slogan

[TriniXaeno]

what kind of speed will you get with this?? and why do you need this arc?

curious as someone was asking me about it recently and I told 'em to go with tstt blink /flow or EVDO.

[woodyear99]

Haha evdo overpriced and unreliable if you ask me. Gprs service is about 128 kbps.

What business did that laptop come from? 

[Arcmanov]

what kind of speed will you get with this?? and why do you need this arc?

curious as someone was asking me about it recently and I told 'em to go with tstt blink /flow or EVDO.

I'm supposed to get full GPRS speeds of up to 128kbps as woodyear99 said.
I need it because using a cellphone as a modem has its drawbacks.  The bluetooth
connection, while nifty, just provides another point for signal losses, and is complicated to
set up in a pinch.  Just ask anyone who's ever had bluetooth driver issues.

Also, its to use with my MSI Wind.  Whats the point of having a nice ultraportable netbook
without a truly mobile internet solution.  EV-DO would be nice, but at $600 a month, it would broken me, and there are data caps.
The GPRS service is $150 a month unlimited, and it works pretty consistently, once you get a good signal.

So now I can whip it out anywhere and skin out de Wind and surf.

[Saxito Pau]

So now I can whip 'it' out anywhere and skin out de 'tool' and 'deliver'.

*Fixed for perverseness...* 

[Arcmanov]

hahahahahahahaha...i just KNEW that would happen.

[woodyear99]

what kind of speed will you get with this?? and why do you need this arc?

curious as someone was asking me about it recently and I told 'em to go with tstt blink /flow or EVDO.

I'm supposed to get full GPRS speeds of up to 128kbps as woodyear99 said.
I need it because using a cellphone as a modem has its drawbacks.  The bluetooth
connection, while nifty, just provides another point for signal losses, and is complicated to
set up in a pinch.  Just ask anyone who's ever had bluetooth driver issues.

Also, its to use with my MSI Wind.  Whats the point of having a nice ultraportable netbook
without a truly mobile internet solution.  EV-DO would be nice, but at $600 a month, it would broken me, and there are data caps.
The GPRS service is $150 a month unlimited, and it works pretty consistently, once you get a good signal.

So now I can whip it out anywhere and skin out de Wind and surf.

Tsk Tsk, ah could never understand that bout Tstt, they give you higher speeds on their EVDO service with their usual high price but then slam you with some ridiculous caps on top of that. Kinda defeats the point of having a high speed connection......I also using the GPRS @ $150, good enough for me.

[Crixx_Creww]

apparently this solution is also used extensively over at our twin island.

[woodyear99]

I can confirm that the GPRS service works in Tobago, even when on the boat lol :p