my orb experience
i read about orb at russ's blog last night and gave it a try. i signed up at http://orb.com and got a confirmation mail pointing me to https://my.orb.com. logging in to my orb portal i could see some available internet tv channels which i gave a try from the xp pc. worked fine and the streaming was passable.
next up revved up services in my 3650 and logged on to https://my.orb.com but the phone came back with a error message (services:no gateway reply). tried some other sites from the phone and they worked fine, so i looked around a bit and then thought it might be related to the secure https:// so i switched to http://my.orb.com and it worked! i was presented with the login page, which i logged into and navigated to one of the links (channels) that was working on my pc. the phone launched RealPlayer and initiated a new gprs connection (which was ok), but then the real player could not start the streaming. it always stayed on 'connecting...'.
well i guess its the data connection speed thats a problem here, which i am gonna sort out with the provider soon. even the contents from tmobile guide doesnt stream in real player.
i blogged about a silly idea some time back talking about doing voip calls between 2 (or more devices) using gprs, which can make use of a intermediate server to act as a switchboard server. looking at orb i am sure something like that is not far (if not already present! update:Skype does this).
posted by Ravneet at 3/29/2005 09:21:00 AM
5 Comments:
Great post Ravneet, without blogs like yours I would be miserable and bored. My recent injury has me cooped up at home, so it's always lucky to find a gem like your blog here to keep me amused. My surfboards website is getting better but it's hard to find information on surfboards stuff, so I like learning from quality blogs like yours because it helps me in my web projects. You do a sweat job my friend. I'll be bookmarking your site in a special place. Will probably tell a friend too.
Nice work ~
WOW! What a great site you have here, Ravneet. I found is from my search for prospects. In my opinion., is a cut above the others. Even though my research regarding my orb experience lead me here but match is not exact for my orb experience, the content is very beneficial and rewarding. Thank you for reading my comment here.
Well, is there something a little weird going on here? I don't know about you Ravneet, but my blog gets pretty cluttered with spammy comments from people. My advice to you as one blog owner to another, is to be patient and focus on the great things about having a blog, instead of all the junk that goes on. You do have a quality blog and appears that you enjoy it. My favorite web project so far is a used surfboard site, because I have total control and it makes me a couple dollars here and there. It's pretty hard to find new information on used surfboard stuff though. Hey, keep up your excellent job Ravneet, and good luck with your projects..
See ya ~
Hey Ravneet...
How did you get your blog to be so good? Originally I was out trying to locate used surf board related information, but your post ' my orb experience ' got my attention and stopped me in my tracks :) Glad I found you because I'm trying to improve my site about used surf board and your blog here gave me some excellent ideas. Thanks Ravneet for the good read and I think I'll mention your blog to my cousin (if that's okay...)
Keep up your effort ~ and good job.
WOW! What a great site you have here, Ravneet. I found is from my search for phone broadcasting. In my opinion., is a cut above the others. Even though my research regarding my orb experience lead me here but match is not exact for my orb experience, the content is very beneficial and rewarding. Thank you for reading my comment here.
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