Accelerated browsing through Squid on Ubuntu
when I wake up in the morning, I find my phone “searching for network” with its battery almost flat! I don’t seem to have these problems with the Airtel card as the signal seems to be stronger and more “fade resistant” compared to CDMA. Its not pretty fast, but its faster than those idiotic over heating PCMCIA cards that Airtel pimped a while back which needed to be pulled out of the slot and reinserted ever so often in the summers as it was very susceptible to heat stroke…
Setting up the Airtel USB EDGE/GPRS Card in Ubuntu 9.04/9.1/10
This is the first EDGE/GPRS modem I setup in Ubuntu. I’m not sure what the model is as it is not mentioned on the body of the modem. Initially on plugging it in I noticed some errors. However unplugging/plugging it a couple of times sorted it out. Unlike the CDMA modems, it also requires an [...]
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