Saturday, December 13, 2008

Live handset streaming is a go!
The singular emotion coursing through my soul this beautiful Saturday morning...vindication!  For the past couple of days I've been trying in vain to stream video from my cameraphone through Qik, but no dice.  After Qik's support team indicated that the non-responsiveness might be a network mis-configuration with my provider, I was able to tweak the TCP settings on my BlackBerry Bold and modify the APN.


Fortunately, I've been testing DOCOMO Pacific's 3G mobile broadband service, so I had previously been messing with the settings for their HSDPA cards and remembered where the APN can be adjusted.  So if you're on Guam and want to mess with Qik through DOCOMO, here's what you do (this should work for BlackBerries running OS v.3.8 or later):
  1. Go into Options and select Advanced Options and then TCP
  2. Under APN, enter "wap" (or your provider's appropriate setting) & exit, saving the changes to your profile
  3. Launch Qik and sign in - the network should access your videocamera and you'll be prompted to start streaming video
[ GOTCHA: depending on your OS model and provider's particularities, other network resources may not be available after you tweak the APN.  So data push services like e-mail or Twitter updates, in addition to using the browser, may not be available.  So you may have to toggle the APN based on when you want to stream video (which may not be such a bad thing when trying to push out live video over a mobile broadband connection to secure as much uninterrupted bandwidth as you can get).  If you're only another wireless network, here are the settings. ]

There are few things in life that give me the distinct satisfaction of squashing a technology bug.  Thanks to Jane Fu from Qik for helping me get through this.  She rocks!

OK kids...I'm off to shoot - and stream - live video!  Check out my channel throughout the weekend for whatever I put up there.

// posted by Jason Salas @ 9:30 AM
Comments:
**UPDATE**

My pal Josie, who's on GTA, got her own live streaming channel working through Qik by using 'wap' as her APN. So it works on either of those networks on Guam!
# posted by Blogger Jason Salas : January 24, 2009 5:28 PM
 

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