Orange UAP/Kineto question.

Dr_B_2

Given that one of my two main reasons for potentially leaving Orange is the poor indoor reception in one of the locations I use the phone, I'm intrigued by this. However I understand that UMA is only available on certain Blackberry Phones and one of the LG phones, none of which I'm interested in.

I have heard of the Android app Kineto which enables UMA, however I read this was only going to be pre-loaded onto certain handsets and only on the Orange network. From this I assume that it's only available on handsets with Orange firmware and not unbranded ones. Since the other reason I wanted to leave was branded handsets, this might present a problem.

On that note, how well does the UMA calling work anyway? (And why is nothing ever bl**dy straightforward when choosing a mobile phone contract!

diamonds

Dr_B wrote: »

Given that one of my two main reasons for potentially leaving Orange is the poor indoor reception in one of the locations I use the phone, I'm intrigued by this. However I understand that UMA is only available on certain Blackberry Phones and one of the LG phones, none of which I'm interested in.

I have heard of the Android app Kineto which enables UMA, however I read this was only going to be pre-loaded onto certain handsets and only on the Orange network. From this I assume that it's only available on handsets with Orange firmware and not unbranded ones. Since the other reason I wanted to leave was branded handsets, this might present a problem.

On that note, how well does the UMA calling work anyway? (And why is nothing ever bl**dy straightforward when choosing a mobile phone contract!

I have my Blackberry Pearl 3G connected via a DLink DIR-615 ethernet cabled from the Orange livebox (its wireless is pants for stable wifi UMA connection) so I locked my DLink and Pearl to N wireless only and activated the Quality Of Service in DLink set-up and its so stable Kerr Katona's seething jealous....

UMA needs 90kbps upload and download as a minimum and ideally QOS on the router....Orange Livebox fails on the QOS count

Dr_B_2

Any idea about affordable QoS routers for cable broadband? (You seem to know everything else!)

diamonds

Yes Virgin should supply one free or cheaper than buying from a retail, what Virgin broadband package are you on ?

(I try !)

diamonds

http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband/broadband-extras/wireless-routers.html

New customers: Free with10Mb broadband
Existing customers: Free with 10Mb broadband if you've never had broadband with us, £60 when you upgrade to 10Mb broadband.

diamonds

LOL think that page predates the 2MB connection discontinuation so FREE if you never had broadband with Virgin or free with 10MB BB for new customers or just FREE LOL

Toe-Jam

I had a blackberry on orange for 5 months, the UMA was utterly useless, it more often didn't work and it stopped working altogether in January 2011 so I left orange then.

diamonds

QOS on the wifi signal is very important

drbesty

My UMA is rock solid, it never fails