The week of May 21st in My Digital Life

I will hopefully be the owner of a T-Mobile Wing tomorrow. I plan on calling my local store today to make sure they have them in stock.The Wing has not shown up on the T-Mobile web site yet.

Last week I finally was able to have Verizon FIOS installed. It took about 6 hours to complete the installation. I am very pleased with the service. The downstream speed is similar to what I had on Comcast, however the upstream speed of 2 Mbps is about 6 times faster. This makes file and picture uploads considerably faster. Watching Slingbox away from home is a much more pleasurable experience. I also think the quality of my Sunrocket VOIP service is better. More on my install tomorrow.

My upgraded Tivo hard drive seems to be working fine, however I cannot connect to it via my Silicon Dust Cachecard. I am still researching the problem and have found other individuals with a similar issue but nobody seems to have a solution to the problem. It seems most individuals on the forums have moved on to the newer Tivo boxes..

On the consulting front, I finally found a work around to connecting a Microsoft ISA server to a Cisco VPN router that does not use NAT-T. The bottom line is that you can't use ISA, the connection needs to go through a firewall that performs static NAT translation. Now I am onto diagnosing a DFS environment across three subnets which does not appear to synchronize files correctly.

This week:

• My QuickLook review of the Prevalent Devices Phraze-It  keyboard 2.0 application using my Dell Axim X51v should appear on pocketnow.com this week.
• I should be blogging about my new T-Mobile Wing.

Comments

[Chris]

I'll be interested to hear about your experience with the Wing. My MDA is a little over a year old and is really showing its wear. The back battery cover slips off, for example, and the other surfaces are nicked up pretty good in some places, not to mention the stylus won't stay in the hole because of the constant in and out (I tried a new stylus, it's the hole). Currently I'm debating either extending my contract (does it matter if you extend within a certain time frame or can you extend any time within your current contract?) or just biting the bullet and paying the cancellation charges and switching to Cingular and getting the 8525 and being able to utilize 3G service where I live. I had hoped T-Mobile would be further along with this service and I find the lack of information coming from them troubling, especially since I really like the company and would want to stay with them. But I also don't want to watch technology pass us by....

[Stephen Skarlatos]

I confirmed with my T-Mobile store, they will have them for sale tomorrow. My MDA is getting worn as well. I have been lucky the stylus stays in place, but I pretty much operate the device one handed so I only use the stylus to write now and then.

It is a shame that T-MObile has been so tight lipped about their 3G deployment, however I have heard rumors to expect a new device 3G Windows Mobile device in the August/September time frame and the network by year's end. Who knows...