[Wikimedia Kenya] WikiSaturday Plan B

[Isaac K. Kosgei]

I agree with Abbas. Besides the slow nature of the phone wifi it
supports limited number and also heats up on over use. So my
suggestion is connectify and orange broadband.
Alternatively we could postpone to Saturday Next weekend as Alex has suggested.

On 25/04/2011, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking of slow connectivity speeds, I haven't tried the IDEOS hotspot --
> but while we were undertaking the Mombasa pilot, David created a hotspot for
> us using his Xperia X10 and it was painfully slow, yet only 2 laptops were
> connected to his hotspot.
>
> Now if the connection that day was painfully slow using a high-end
> smartphone, I wonder how it will be with the IDEOS...
>
> PS: no offence intended on the IDEOS users, BTW:)
>
>> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:56:53 -0700
>> From: xelawafs at yahoo.com
>> To: wikimediake at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] WikiSaturday Plan B
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> So just to update you on venue. Here's the thing with ihub, it's available
>> before Saturday but I'm not sure if everyone will be able to make it. The
>> other option's to have it next Saturday which is on 7th.
>>
>> As for this Saturday, I'm looking into having the venue at NIT - that's in
>> Westlands. I'll get back to you as soon as possible on this.
>>
>> I hope connectivity speeds won't be too slow ie from Safcom / orange...
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>> On Sun Apr 24th, 2011 10:55 PM PDT Abbas Mahmood wrote:
>>
>> >I'm not a fan of Safaricom's sh2 per minute billing system. IMHO, I find
>> > Orange way cheaper and faster than Safaricom: Orange charges sh. 110 for
>> > 100MB. But anyway, I guess we don't have that many users in Orange...
>> >
>> >> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:44:33 +0300
>> >> From: kips8505izo at gmail.com
>> >> To: wikimediake at lists.wikimedia.org
>> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] WikiSaturday Plan B
>> >>
>> >> The best option is we use connectify software and the safaricom new
>> >> billing rate of unlimited browsing/download the rates are 2sh a minute
>> >> and they don't restrict the data bundles as long as you are subscribed
>> >> so guys will still facebook, tweet, and edit wikipedia. In my
>> >> calculation 600SH will last us 5 hours. If you agree to this then it
>> >> will now be the issue of venue. Alex can sort that out I am sure
>> >>
>> >> On 25/04/2011, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi guys,
>> >> >
>> >> > To probably add onto Oscar's suggestion,the ideos can support upto 9
>> >> > users
>> >> > at a time but this should not be a worry,since there is a software
>> >> > called
>> >> > connectify which is freeware.The software is purported to turn any
>> >> > laptop
>> >> > running on windows 7 into a hotspot.But the 'hotspot' needs to be
>> >> > connected
>> >> > to the internet and  then from there other users can log in with a
>> >> > password
>> >> > given by the admin of the hotspot.
>> >> >
>> >> > The only advantage is,It is not limited to number of users.
>> >> > Finding another venue without wifi connection would be a cinch if we
>> >> > had our
>> >> > own internet.
>> >> > Thank you and have a good day.
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards.
>> >> > stephen w. wanjau
>> >> > Phone: +254 771 557 857
>> >> > twitter:haha_wanjau
>> >> > B.Sc statistics and computer science.
>> >> > JKUAT
>> >> >
>> >> > On Apr 25, 2011 8:14 AM, "Limoke Oscar" <oslimoke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> Hey guys,
>> >> >> Looks like ihub is going to unrelibke for our monthly editing.I
>> >> >> suggest we think of alternative ways.To start it of, The IDEOS phone
>> >> >> can broadcast wifi quite well.since a few of us have it,we could buy
>> >> >> some data bundles and find a venue and carry on with our
>> >> >> editing.ofcourse we will need to set some norms like disable auto
>> >> >> updates,no facebook,twitter etc.what do you think?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Yours,
>> >> >>
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