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  1. #1
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    Post SSH: Size of connection (from mobile devices) & UK deals on devices?

    Hi Everyone,

    I spend a fair amount of time on the move and really need the ability to fix problems with servers and deal with urgent emails while I am on the road. I have been looking into getting a PDA/Phone such as the O2 XDA and installing an SSH client on it.

    I was wondering two things:

    (a) How much data am I likely to use during say an 30 minute SSH connection with compression turned on?

    (b) What do I require from my network? Will SSH work over GRPS or do I need something else for that?

    I am looking at the following two deals:
    O2 XDA IIs ("Exclusive Online Business Tariff" - £18 per month with 1mb data, £1.50 per extra mb or £35 for 30mb)

    T-Mobile MDAIII (same as O2 XDA methinks) on Relax 100 tarrif (18 month contract for £19 per month) with 10mb of data for £15 and extra data at £3/mb [or £25 for 20mb data with extra data at £1.50/mb).

    Has anyone on WHT had any experience with either O2 or T-Mobile in the UK or the XDA/MMIII (same thing)? Am I correct in thinking that the T-Mobile deal is better if I am going to use more than a few megabytes of data per month?

    With many thanks,

    Alex
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    Orange do it as well for their business customers.

    They are quite bulky things, regularly crash and easy to break, unless you have Orange Care or equivelent on the other networks then you could find yourself out of pocket a few months down the line.
    MattF - Since the start..

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    One of us here left top open in an SSH session over GPRS about 6 months back, for about 4-6 hours and it used about 5MB I think.
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    I'm using Putty on a Nokia 9500 on Voda and it works well. My other personal recommendation is a Sony UX-40 or UX-50 with a Sony Ericsson phone with bluetooth enable. All works quite well
    Rus
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    Thank-you very much MattF, KDAWebServices and vaserv for your advice and recommendations which is truly appreciated and very useful.

    Alex
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    I use a palm and a seperate GPRS phone. This works well although I guess some of the newer devices will have a bigger screen, but SSH, basic web (including WHM) and POP3 email works well over GPRS. GRPS can be expensive, so at least having seperate devices, I can easily swap the phone element if needed.

    When I first looked at this, finding something for SSH was the main problem, hence the palm as it's more open (to non Windows systems) than any of the Windows based PDA/Phones. This may have changed, but as mine works I've not looked into changing things

    The palm wouldn't display a client exec web page or a hotmail web page, but that's not too much of a problem.

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