[Wylug-discuss] Saving money on GPRS Web browsing

[Peter Corlett]

<lists at mungewell.org> wrote:
[...]
> It uses ssh to create a compressed tunnel, so if you're using GPRS to
> browse the web and you have an account on broadband connected machine then
> you can save 66% on your data usage (assuming 1:3 compression)

More interesting is that the "orangewap" APN appears to allow connections to
port 23 (I discovered this when writing a Viewdata client for the P900). So
if you're on a tariff with "unlimited" WAP, it's even cheaper.

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