what cell phone I should use? can I use my own 6510 phone ? and what cable I should buy and do I have to have gprs enabled from my cell phone provider? I bought a cable which will plug behind my phone and I have to take out the sim card and battery and plug it into the cable
I tried to connect it to serial port on my mikrotik box and as soon as it rings it will turn off the phone.
I want to do telnet and remote control… and will it convert the vga screen to telnet? like I want to see what error happen when it crashes.
Hi there! It sounds like you bought the cable used to unblacklist your phone, or even do upgrades etc. You need a cable that plugs in from the bottom of your phone. I havent seen this working before, but I know enough about cellphones to tell you are using the wrong cable.
In the past we’ve used GSM modems, which don’t have keypads or displays, they just have RS232 (extended AT command set), +12V power, a SIM card slot and an antenna.
You can set the GSM modem up for “auto answer” for dial-in.
The antennas can be much larger than the ones in commercial handsets, which means you get better coverage.
In the UK we can get “data only” SIM cards on a contract, which costs less than £5 / month - and no outgoing calls, that’s not too bad - cheaper than line rental on a dedicated land line.
Works excellently on our laser links, we even put checksums and ack/nack retry on our own management command protocol to make it “error proof” on poor connections.
Have not tried on MT boxes, though there’s no reason why not.
We put serial port (including modem) access on our RadioManager software, so you get a friendly GUI even on serial connections - for those who don’t like command line input
Many US providers will add a secondary phone on your account for less than $10 a mo. Many phones will go into data only mode and auto answer, just like a modem would. (The audiovox 9100 and 9155 both do) Plug the phone into the serial converter and into your PC and you should have a working modem to dialin with. I was planning on doing this in the near future, I’ll let you know how it works out.
hi guys
the question is not actually the type of sim card package, its the GPRS thing that must be enabled by provider? and most of all which phone I need? this 6510 does not have those multiple pin at the button, and it only has charger plug.
all phones that are made within last 10 years have data cable sockets. only latest phones support GPRS though. Go to a store and ask for a phone that supports gprs and has a data cable available. then ask your provider to enable gprs on your phone, i bet they can even configure it for you.
i don’t know where you are from, but here in latvia to get gprs internet it is a matter of seconds.
I’m in malaysia and its same here.
but my phone which is gprs supported will turn off automatically at first ring when I connect it to the Mikrotik. it is not working same with my windows.
so any cheap price phone that is fully compatible with mikrotik to set as call waiting? I dont want to connect to my box through internet, I want to connect through direct dial-up call from my pc or laptop to mikrotik box.
by the way, most of the data cable for phones who were out since last two years are all USB, is there usb support in 2.9?
