Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:32:02
Message-Id: 200712032325.27769.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem by Grant
1 On Monday 03 December 2007, Grant wrote:
2
3 > I'm working on this. I'll have to set up a comparison between GSM
4 > phone rental and satellite system rental. Lots to consider with data,
5 > international voice calls, speed, convenience, and cost.
6
7 I remember reading somewhere a comparison by a guy between vanilla GSM data
8 and GPRS. His drawn curves showing the break even point, beyond which you
9 were probably better off using the more expensive GPRS connection. Googling
10 should through something up.
11
12 > What would you use to measure how much data you're downloading and
13 > uploading to/from the internet?
14
15 Other than ifconfig as was already suggested I would use iptraf.
16 --
17 Regards,
18 Mick

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