Samsung a500 data cable question

[Greyd]

Ok I've been hearing tons of different things about the data cable for the samsung a500. What exactly is going on with it? I want to get one for connection to my laptop, but I hear there are different ones and some are bad, some are good. Anyone know the story?

Thanks

 

[her209]

I want to know too.

 

[UNCjigga]

Sprint PCS pulled them because someone released instructions on turning your Vision phone into a highspeed wireless modem, and people were using their $10/month unlimited Vision with this and Sprint didn't like the 'leeching'. You can get cables at RadioShack from what I hear...they partnered with another company to provide 3rd party cables.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: her209
I want to know too.

That makes three of us.

 

[Hammer]

woah, i think maybe i will be getting a new phone sooner than i planned. 😀

 

[Greyd]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Sprint PCS pulled them because someone released instructions on turning your Vision phone into a highspeed wireless modem, and people were using their $10/month unlimited Vision with this and Sprint didn't like the 'leeching'. You can get cables at RadioShack from what I hear...they partnered with another company to provide 3rd party cables.

Sooo...these cables from radio shack can do the same thing? Or is the highspeed internet now unavailable? Is it software specific?

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Greyd

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Sprint PCS pulled them because someone released instructions on turning your Vision phone into a highspeed wireless modem, and people were using their $10/month unlimited Vision with this and Sprint didn't like the 'leeching'. You can get cables at RadioShack from what I hear...they partnered with another company to provide 3rd party cables.

Sooo...these cables from radio shack can do the same thing? Or is the highspeed internet now unavailable? Is it software specific?

Cables can do the same thing...visit the forums here for more information...

FYI: Highspeed = 64k modem (faster than a 56k modem!) with an upgrade planned late in '03 that will take it to 128k automatically (some phones require firmware upgrade, others don't!)

 

[NutBucket]

FutureDial now makes/markets the data cables for Sprint phones. And the 128k speeds are attainable. The 70k range is what most people experience, however. I've never done better then 60k at home, but I don't have a clear signal.

And for the phone upgrade thing, All Sprint handsets are capable of 1xRTT, or 144k at the current time provided they are indeed 3G capable.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
FutureDial now makes/markets the data cables for Sprint phones. And the 128k speeds are attainable. The 70k range is what most people experience, however. I've never done better then 60k at home, but I don't have a clear signal.

And for the phone upgrade thing, All Sprint handsets are capable of 1xRTT, or 144k at the current time provided they are indeed 3G capable.

Yes, as long as its considered a PCS Vision phone then it is 144k capable, however the so-called 'Sprint experts' in the Vision forums say most phones are only running at half their rated speed for some reason (I think because not all Sprint nodes run at 144k or because Sprint has some 'bandwidth throttling' on for some reason.) Some have entered their phone's firmware menu and found an option to set the data rate at 'half', 'full' or 'auto', with half being the default for these phones!

IIRC RadioShack is selling the FutureDial cables with some software...

 

[Joony]

info on the sprint vision abuse thing

 

[Dibs]

Go to this site, a500hacking.com, and do a search for data cable. This topic has been covered ad nauseam there.