IRDA probs - Siemans C72

[Gimpymoo]

Ok, the phone was as cheap as chips.. no complaints about it.

My only issue is that it has a IRDA port and thought I may as well use it to Backup my Sim info (Something been meaning to do for about 5 years - LOL) and as I spend most of my time on the PC "Dock" it to the PC so can send txt messages, administer phonebook from the PC etc. I have an IRDA USB dongle so thought may as well give it a go.

Within Device manager, I have 2 speeds available for the IRDA adapter, 9600bps and various others including 57600bps.

My IRDA adapter supports upto 4Mb/s.. am I right in thinking that 57600bps is 5Mb/s? If so, is there any way of editing the values which Windows gives to allow say 3Mb/s?

The reason is, that when I choose 57600bps, the connection intermittently drops out... on 9600bps, its as solid as a rock but is abviously slow for doing well, almost anything.

If the 57600bps is not equal to 5Mb/s.. any ideas on what would be causing the phone to drop out at higher speeds.. as its a cheap phone could it be limited?

Excuse my ignorance, but I do not have much experiance of Mobiles and IRDA.

Thanks to anyone who can make sense of the above.

 

[Andre]

9Kbs and 56Kbs are the speeds offered by your IRDA adapter. Basically not anywhere near 5Mbs.

It could be an incompatibility between the signals generated, or simply you have the phone too close/far away. Try placing the phone, with the infra-red port pointing directly at the USB dongle, at a distance of 20-30cm and see if anything improves.

Normally the infrared port on the phone is used for transferring small amounts of information, or connecting to the in-built modem.

Must admit, all the siemens phones I have owned and I've never had a problem with the infrared