Comment Re:Vodafone (Score 1) 81
I own both a Vodafone Business contract (with a Nokia 6230) and one of the Vodafone 3G/GPRS cards. With the handset, linked via Bluetooth to a laptop, I've been able to access SSH/IRC/MSN etc. (Note that it's all behind NAT). However, with this approach, the latency on the session is way too high for it to be usable.
However, with the 3G card, in a Vodafone 3g enabled area (this is getting more and more widespread now, initially I only got 3G in London and Manchester, now it seems to be spreading, and I've got a 3G connection in Huddersfield, Luton, and Oxford) the latency is nice and low, and it feels like you're working on a 128k+ connection. I've used rdesktop (uh, Terminal Services sorry), telnet, SSH, MSN, IRC, HTTP, POP3, IMAP, IMAPS - basically, just about anything) and there's been no problem.
I had (it got half-inched recently) a 15" Powerbook, and using the datacard in OS X was nice and easy, however the features of the Mac software left a little to be desired compared to those of the PC software (there's no text messaging support, data usage tracking etc). The most annoying thing is that, with the new cards that don't use an antenna, there's interference on the speakers from the card, which gives that annoying clicking tone.
So, returning to the original question, yes, no problems with using SSH (or any other protocol) through Vodafone's network, however, I'd definitely recommend their datacards, rather than phones, purely because of the ease of use, and ease of input.
However, with the 3G card, in a Vodafone 3g enabled area (this is getting more and more widespread now, initially I only got 3G in London and Manchester, now it seems to be spreading, and I've got a 3G connection in Huddersfield, Luton, and Oxford) the latency is nice and low, and it feels like you're working on a 128k+ connection. I've used rdesktop (uh, Terminal Services sorry), telnet, SSH, MSN, IRC, HTTP, POP3, IMAP, IMAPS - basically, just about anything) and there's been no problem.
I had (it got half-inched recently) a 15" Powerbook, and using the datacard in OS X was nice and easy, however the features of the Mac software left a little to be desired compared to those of the PC software (there's no text messaging support, data usage tracking etc). The most annoying thing is that, with the new cards that don't use an antenna, there's interference on the speakers from the card, which gives that annoying clicking tone.
So, returning to the original question, yes, no problems with using SSH (or any other protocol) through Vodafone's network, however, I'd definitely recommend their datacards, rather than phones, purely because of the ease of use, and ease of input.
