GPRS on your pc

GPRS is the solution to your connectivity when there is no other mean to connect. as now a lot lot of area is under coverage of cell phones so it means you can use internet where ever u want. although GPRS is quiet expensive as compared to other internet services like dialups, cable net, dsl or wifi. But due to its availability in the hour of need make it priceless. There are some things that almost every body needs to know. like prices, data speed, how to connect etc. let me do this for you. i dont know 100 % but i will try to deliver you as much as i can.

Rates : almost all the companies has a flat rate of gprs on the basis of usage and your unit is in Mb. like PKR 15/- per mb. if u use web through your mobile and only use sites that are build for mobiles, then its not too much costly. but if we try to connect it to pc or try to open sites made for pc on our cell, it will cost a lot. Zong has presented great packages for gprs like 2gb for 200/- and 4gb for 400/- 25 paisa per minutes based package etc. Recentaly zong came with another amazing pakage of using 5 rupees per hour. but the limitation is that you have to use that one hour in 24 hours. other wise it will be expired.

Control your data....in and out

If you are user of  PTCL, LinkDotNet or Micronet or any other ISP giving you unlimited downloads then you may dont need to read this post. But if you are limited data user of wateen, witribe or EVO then you will find this interesting for you. As i mentioned earlier, i am using wateen. I dont know why but whenever i connect my wateen, it start eating bytes, even i am not using any thing. so i start searching for something to control this data flow. i tried many things  but i found two of them very usefull and handy. so i want to tell you about this. These are sygate and netlimiter. these two softwares have different application but let me summarize a little

        Sygate is a firewall to allow/diss-allow any application to interact with internet. it will ask from user to allow or not. it will even notify you when windows wants to get the latest update and msn messenger before signing in.

        Netlimiter is another usefull application. although it works in same pattern but it has another advantage. it shows total incoming and outgoing data at the instant. means you can check your speed while watching a youtube video or listening a song. it can give you the speed in bytes, kilobytes and mega bytes. I was never able to get its register version or any crack. so if any body knows about it, then do tell me :).