{"id":1505,"date":"2006-08-31T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2006-09-11T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T02:15:32","slug":"mystery-of-the-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/mystery-of-the-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of the Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my room, I decide to check the wireless. Wow! I can see AirJaldi3. But it requires a WEP password that I can&#8217;t guess. But now the phone. Looks like it&#8217;s fine and even gets GPRS for data. I connect. Read the index of mail as I walk out to the balcony. Connection dropped. Reboot etc. No relief. I reboot in the small kitchen area and I get data. I walk over to the bed and before I can get the first page of mail, I&#8217;m dropped. I go into the bathroom. I get data. I stay there a while and madly answer select emails as briefly as possibly. They seem to work. I go to the balcony. Dead again.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I realize that the Pema is on a ridge. I&#8217;m roaming to different carriers as a roam my small room. Only the carrier furthest from the balcony provides data support. Over the course of the evening before I pass out. I find four carriers within a 40 foot square.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all these choices, I can&#8217;t manage to dial out. None of the dialing to the USA mojo seems to get me beyond a bilingual message about a wrong area code. And I can&#8217;t get through to James or Phuntsok either.<\/p>\n<p>This will bug me for the rest of my visit. I can almost read and reply to mail, then I can&#8217;t. Finally cybercafes, which close at 8 pm or so, are my only option for mail etc. Luckily the price per hour of use is only about 40 rupees or less than a dollar. My hosts keep me pretty much in motion so I only check in in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment (Tuesday morning), I have somehow locked in a single provider. They don&#8217;t do data.<\/p>\n<p>I experience the phone mysteries on the road back and in the airport. Coming down the mountain, I switch carriers often gaining and losing data access with no warning. <\/p>\n<p>In the airport, things are more mysterious. My most reliable data carrier AirTel gets the phone, but for the first time it doesn&#8217;t show GPRS aka data support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my room, I decide to check the wireless. Wow! I can see AirJaldi3. But it requires a WEP password that I can&#8217;t guess. But now the phone. Looks like it&#8217;s fine and even gets GPRS for data. I connect. Read the index of mail as I walk out to the balcony. Connection dropped. Reboot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-india-and-tibetans","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}