Any Thuraya sat phone *data* users out there?
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Posted by on August 13, 2008, 11:41 am
Please log in for more thread options I have been doing some tests on the three Hughes phones the company offers; the 7100, SO-2510, SG-2520. The old 7100 works OK for dial-up (does not support GPRS) and has a decent battery life. Dial up data rate ~ 1.3kbytes/sec. The SO- gives only half the data rate of the 7100, which is bizzare. GPRS works only every 5th or 10th connection and packs up within minutes. The SG- works on dial-up similarly to the 7100 but a bit slower (about 1.1 kbytes/sec) and GPRS does not work at all. It also has a really stupid bug: doing a Disconnect on the PC does not disconnect the call - you have to do it manually on the phone's keypad. It seems to ignore both DTR dropping and the ~~~+++~~~ method. The bluetooth connection works OK; curiously the FAX mode is 10-20% faster on dial-up data than the DUN mode... But the battery life, when not making a call but anytime bluetooth is communicating, is only about 2 hours. These products seem only half finished, and the duff GPRS service (for which Thuraya charge a lot extra per month if you are on contract) is a puzzle. Why would anybody launch a $X BN satellite without first testing it works? Their tech support is nonexistent - recruited from the Vodafone PAYG Team no doubt ;) If anybody has solved the hangup problem in particular, I would be very interested. Their OEM modules can hardly be this crappy; they would be useless. x----------x | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Peter on August 20, 2008, 2:23 am
Please log in for more thread options I have an update on this. The SG-2520 phone works on GPRS - it was a SIM card registration issue. Thuraya customer service are now responsive. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Peter on August 20, 2008, 2:33 am
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An additional update: the hangup problem on dial-up remains unsolved, but with GPRS working it doesn't really matter since one only pays for the data, and the GPRS connection does disconnect more reliably than the dial-up one, anyway. A solution to the ATH0 dial-up issue would still be great. | |||||||||||||
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