Posted by admin on Mar 2, 2009 in
Life Current Mood:
Esctatic & 
Surprised
The day I got my HTC Touch Pro, I started messing around with it. With such phones as the Touch Pro, comes great capabilities (Such as Wifi, Remote Desktop, etc.) However, the biggest advantage is the ability to Tether your Laptop/Computer with the phone and use it as a modem. To put it in a nut-shell, Tethering allows you to connect your computer (be it Laptop/Desktop) to the phone and use it as a modem; which basically means you have access to the internet.
Now, imagine the following scenario:
You are at your local Star-bucks, getting a cup of coffee. Suddenly, you realize you needed to check your email, as a prospective employer would be sending you important “interview” related information.
Sure, you can configure your cellphone to receive emails and such, but it’s a pain to do any sort of communication over that device because of it’s qwerty keyboard (the size, that is). Granted, some are very good at this… me? I use only if I must. So in such a case, you would pop-out your laptop, and try to connect to the internet, only to find out that Star-buck’s WiFi isn’t actually free (at least in my area it isn’t).
So, if you know how to tether your computer to the phone, you will be in the clear. If you haven’t already tried this out, follow my step-by-step guide found here: Tethering 101: Get Wi-Fi Access from your HTC Touch Pro.
I did it it and I am pleasantly surprised at the Connection Speed Test Results. Well, once my laptop was tethered, I went to the following site to perform the speed test: SPEEDTEST.NET and selected the configuration and ran the test. This is what it outputted:
Am I happy? I am ecstatic! My connection was faster than 47% of the people in the WORLD, and at least 35% of the people in the US. (the 12% discrepancy speaks to the advancement of the US… but that topic/discussion will be reserved for some other day).
Here are the links provided to me by SPEEDTEST.NET:
[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/421701387.png[/IMG][/URL]
http://www.speedtest.net/result/421701387.png
Tags: htc touch pro, speed test, sprint
Posted by RushiKumar on Mar 2, 2009 in
Life Current Mood:
Alarmed & 
Cool & Esctatic & 
Happy
As some of you might know, I am a Community Assistant (previously known as “Resident Assistant) at the University of Connecticut. So, on February 20th, 2009, I was on duty. Now, the duty here at UConn works as follows (currently, pending further changes): A CA must do one round on the weekdays (Sun-Wed) @10, and two rounds on the weekends (Thu-Sat) @11 and @1. We are told to fluctuate +- 15 minutes… just to keep the residents guessing at our exact arrival times. So, in any event, here I was: Ready for my 2nd round of the cold night. I gear up: wear my jacket, carry my CA bag, get the masters, and finally I make the call to my fellow CA and ask her to be ready for the second round.
At precisely 12:40 I call her for the 2nd round, she answers in the affirmative, I hang up the phone and put it in its holster, and place it on my hip…. that’s the last time I had physical contact with my cell-phone. Then, I leave my place and meet my fellow CA at her residence and we leave for the rounds. 20 minutes later, once the rounds were finished, I get back to my place. Generally, every night at precisely 1:50 AM, I call home (provided, I am still awake), as my Dad comes back from work at that time. So, that night, being not any different, I reach out for my cell-phone and to my surprise I couldn’t find it. I looked everywhere in my room… no trace of it! I panicked!! Fearing, what my father would say/do to me if he were to find out that I lost my $400+ phone!!
We CA’s have a “duty phone”: So I tried calling my cell-phone from it. For the 1st try, it rang 5 times and went straight to the voice mail… My thoughts were “Good… This is a good sign! Now, at least I can track it!” Whilst it rang, I looked all over my room first (thinking, it could have been here and overlooked when I performed the search), but didn’t hear the phone ring in my room at all. So I called it again: the second time through, it went straight to voice mail. This, literally, pissed me off! First thought that came to mind: “Someone has my phone!!!” Regardless, I called it again, and again, and again, and again… (you get the idea).
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Tags: asurion, htc touch pro, lost cell phone, mogul, sprint
