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| Hi all, I'm new to this forum and have very much enjoyed scouring the pages of advice and information already available.
However, there is one question that I can't find the answer to.
Whilst I'm waiting for my Cisco Aironet 350 card to arrive I have a desperate urge to have a go at surfing the net the old fashioned way using the internal modem on my Jornada 690 and a dialup ISP.
The only thing that's stopping me is a remark in the user guide (page 81):
"If you use the HP Jornada 680 or 690, you must use an analog telephone line to connect your modem. Connecting to a digital telephone line can damage your modem."
What does it mean by a digital line? My phone line is a normal UK landline (BT) that is set up for broadband (which passes through those little filter things that you plug into the phone socket). Is this digital?
In short, if I plug my new toy into my phone line, will it blow up?
Thanks
Barney
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H/PC Oracle Posts: | 16,175 |
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| my jornada modems work fine with the phone line here.. and broadband (adsl ) is enabled that's all i know.. | |
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| Ta cmonex
Crossed my fingers and tried it. Worked fine. Couldn't log in to this forum though annoyingly...
Couldn't get to my yahoo mail account either but I think I've seen that mentioned somewhere else so I'll have a look around.
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,672 |
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| This is a drawback of Pocket Internet Explorer 3.0 (which is what you have in your 690 ) - it won't let you log onto secure sites. | |
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H/PC Oracle Posts: | 16,175 |
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| it isnt SSL, it is a bug that prevents PIE to log in the forum and a lot more sites.. CE 2.0 PIE worked fine with that, lol.
sadly as your machine isn't MIPS no alternative browser is available
maybe netfront 3.0 once, if isotherm ever releases a doclist dummy. | |
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Factorite (Junior) Posts: | 31 |
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| Quote barney77 - 2006-10-26 2:49 PM
The only thing that's stopping me is a remark in the user guide (page 81):
"If you use the HP Jornada 680 or 690, you must use an analog telephone line to connect your modem. Connecting to a digital telephone line can damage your modem."
What does it mean by a digital line? My phone line is a normal UK landline (BT) that is set up for broadband (which passes through those little filter things that you plug into the phone socket). Is this digital?
In short, if I plug my new toy into my phone line, will it blow up?
Thanks
Barney
Back in 1999 or 2000 I owned a Japanese Jornada 690, which I sold to a friend. While he did not blow it up, he did fry the modem by plugging it into an ISDN phoneline, which was the prominent high-speed internet line in Japan at the time. I believe this passage in the manual may have been translated from the orginal Japanese text.
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H/PC Oracle Posts: | 16,175 |
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| welcome here
that story is sad
where did you get a japanese 690?! | |
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Factorite (Junior) Posts: | 31 |
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| Quote cmonex - 2006-10-30 6:20 PM
welcome here
that story is sad
where did you get a japanese 690?!
I purchased the 690 (it might have been a 680, can't remember anymore ) in Tokyo. It was a splurge, about Y70,000 total back then. I needed a machine that was really portable to access e-mail, web, write, etc. However, it didn't work out. I could not get e-mail to work at all, so I sold it, and bought a Sony Vaio Picturebook.
I'm getting back into the HPC game soon though, I'm waiting for a Mobilegear HPC I purchased off e-bay. | |
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 1,330 |
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| yes, "digital" line normally refers to either ISDN, or types of PABX (private access business exchange - the things that offices use, etc) that use digital handsets, though I think they've died a death...
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Factorite (Junior) Posts: | 31 |
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| Yes, with ADSL, Cable, T1, etc. there's no point to having an ISDN line anymore. | |
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H/PC Oracle Posts: | 16,175 |
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| Quote sonkun - 2006-10-31 3:16 PM
I purchased the 690 (it might have been a 680, can't remember anymore ) in Tokyo. It was a splurge, about Y70,000 total back then. I needed a machine that was really portable to access e-mail, web, write, etc. However, it didn't work out. I could not get e-mail to work at all, so I sold it, and bought a Sony Vaio Picturebook.
I'm getting back into the HPC game soon though, I'm waiting for a Mobilegear HPC I purchased off e-bay.
so you do prefer japanese handhelds did you get the mobilegear (actually a japanese nec 770 ) off ebay.com? i mightve been bidding against you
...i don't know a word of japanese, but i'm fascinated by the japanese hpc's | |
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Factorite (Junior) Posts: | 31 |
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| Quote cmonex - 2006-10-31 6:03 PM
so you do prefer japanese handhelds did you get the mobilegear (actually a japanese nec 770 ) off ebay.com? i mightve been bidding against you
...i don't know a word of japanese, but i'm fascinated by the japanese hpc's
Hah! So you were the one bidding against me. Yes, I won the Mobilegear that was on Ebay, but I've yet to receive the device. The guy hasn't even cashed my check yet, so I'm getting a little anxious.
I do prefer Japanese handhelds, I actually prefer all my devices to be Japanese. Mostly, I need the Japanese text support, and native support in the OS is the easiest to use. In HPC's, I also don't think there's a way to enable Japanese, like in the PocketPC's (nothing that I've read anyway ), so I pretty much needed a Japanese HPC. Rather than wait until my next trip to Japan, it was good timing that Mobilegear showed up on ebay. I had to win it! | |
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| Quote sonkun - 2006-11-01 3:41 PM
Hah! So you were the one bidding against me. Yes, I won the Mobilegear that was on Ebay, but I've yet to receive the device. The guy hasn't even cashed my check yet, so I'm getting a little anxious.
I do prefer Japanese handhelds, I actually prefer all my devices to be Japanese. Mostly, I need the Japanese text support, and native support in the OS is the easiest to use. In HPC's, I also don't think there's a way to enable Japanese, like in the PocketPC's (nothing that I've read anyway ), so I pretty much needed a Japanese HPC. Rather than wait until my next trip to Japan, it was good timing that Mobilegear showed up on ebay. I had to win it!
i'm glad you won it, it'll be more useful to you than to me (as it's just a passion for me ). hope you'll get it soon & have fun with it.
btw do you go to japan often? lucky you | |
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