relatively nice cellular WAN connectivity for FreeBSD

Hi;

recall that last november some of us got our pants in a bunch over the 
fact that sprintpcs was giving away free sierra wireless cards and 6 
months of free connectivity.

but the cards didnt work with freebsd at the time because they where 
multifunction serial cards.

i dont know if they work today, but i no longer care because i have 
switched to verizon wireless and i am getting very good results with a 
Kyocera 2235 phone via my serial cable.

owners of more modern laptops can use a usb cable with this phone if they
so desire. *i* would find it to be desirable, because then i could hookup
to the phone at 230K and not 115K. (experienced users of cell phone
connectivity may be noting the previous 2 numbers with interest.)

the 2235 is the only shipping cdma2000, 1xrtt, '~3G' phone that i am 
aware of. i am not using the 3g stuff since we cant get it in seattle.

what i can say anecdotally is that the ability to connect to the phone at 
115K provides significantly better performance then i got from the same 
phone at 19200. it appears that the phone to laptop baudrate is the 
limiting factor. i'd be curious how it would perform for somebody with a 
usb port....

can anybody suggest a way that i could test at least the 19200/115200 
assertion more rigourously?

tnx!

johnu

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John L. Utz III
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