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gmmour · 05-07-2007, 02:04

My recent experience with WIND plus non-stop:

Last week I was in Larissa at my parents' house where they finally decided to get ADSL but when I was there they had just applied the previous day and waiting for activation...

Dialup was just stepping on my nerves so I connected my laptop to my sony ericsson, I put the proxy settings on Opera and IE and there it went surfing and chatting on MSN with 3G speeds! It was fantastic! It would even reach some 300 Mbps!

And then I went to our cottage on the Thessalian beach of Velika (no 3G there from Wind, only Cosmote...) where we don't even have a fixed phone and I surfed from our patio on 2G speeds and it went just fine (even if we had a fixed line, the fastest thing available there on the beach is ISDN)! It worked smoothly enough in order for me to open 10 news articles and some 10 threads on my favourite fora simultaneously and read them while chatting on MSN Messenger and while all my neighboors and especially their kids who were missing their home internet connection would gather around me and seemed quite amazed that I was surfing from there while begging me to let them surf on the internet or let them connect their laptop on my cellphone! That was quite irritating I can admit!

It is also amazing that 2G GPRS seems to work really faster than dialup with a fixed phone line!

Just plain delight! I was so excited!

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gmmour (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 92 Join Date: 03 Oct 2006 Country:	05-07-2007, 02:04 My recent experience with WIND plus non-stop: Last week I was in Larissa at my parents' house where they finally decided to get ADSL but when I was there they had just applied the previous day and waiting for activation... Dialup was just stepping on my nerves so I connected my laptop to my sony ericsson, I put the proxy settings on Opera and IE and there it went surfing and chatting on MSN with 3G speeds! It was fantastic! It would even reach some 300 Mbps! And then I went to our cottage on the Thessalian beach of Velika (no 3G there from Wind, only Cosmote...) where we don't even have a fixed phone and I surfed from our patio on 2G speeds and it went just fine (even if we had a fixed line, the fastest thing available there on the beach is ISDN)! It worked smoothly enough in order for me to open 10 news articles and some 10 threads on my favourite fora simultaneously and read them while chatting on MSN Messenger and while all my neighboors and especially their kids who were missing their home internet connection would gather around me and seemed quite amazed that I was surfing from there while begging me to let them surf on the internet or let them connect their laptop on my cellphone! That was quite irritating I can admit! It is also amazing that 2G GPRS seems to work really faster than dialup with a fixed phone line! Just plain delight! I was so excited!