Hospedia or PatientLine - Woodend Hospital

[Frances144]

Off again to be cut up in Woodend Hospital. I may be some time.

 

Has anyone tried Hospedia (was Patientline) - internet, news, telly and phone provider?

 

What can you tell me? Was it any good A waste of time - the best thing since sliced bread?

 

Do you get a keyboard? Can you read and reply to emails and chat online?

 

Any knowledge/info gratefully received.

 

Thanks

[misty25]

http://www.patientline.co.uk/

This should have all the info you need,

sorry to hear you are heading down there again,hope all goes weel for you

[Frances144]

Thanks.

 

I just wondered if anyone had any first-hand experience of it?

[misty25]

Only experience i had was when it was still Patientline, never used the phone side of it as it was too expensive for people to phone me(just used my mobile) but the tv side was okay. Don't know if it is any better under the new name.

[Girzie]

Take a large notebook and write your life story.....

[Hollian]

I've used Patient line a couple of times. Use email and internet. There is a keypad, it's small, but managable. From memory, keypad is approx 3" x 6".

I used headphones (they are provided), but wish I had taken my own.

It was a life saver in the middle of the night when you couldn't sleep!

[Frances144]

Thanks, Hollian - just what I wanted to hear!

[Lastditch]

I was in ARI for a while 3 years ago and it was Patient Line. Found the keypad a pain to use but OKish. The internet side is limited to what you can use. No messenger or chat but normal browsing and emails was fine. Was a bit slow doing emails using the keypad but then I had plenty of time. The backup people was really good and any problems they were there fairly fast.

Found it a bit expensive but if you buy with your debit card instead of the tickets then you get free days.

[Pooks]

While visiting someone at ARI I had the pleasure of playing with one of these. Pretty basic setup which runs on a back-end of MS Windows CE. Much the same as what you get in the bigger airlines.

 

If you tinker with the buttons enough you can kill the Patientline front-end and have a tinker with Windows CE. When I had a look then they had Motherboard Monitor running in the background which I found quite strange as it is a relatively well known non-commercial piece of software and as such has no guarantees for stability. Development stopped in 2004 with a minor update in 2006.

 

Either way it seemed to do the job specified. I just wouldn't try running any sites heavy on flash/java through it or it is likely to choke.

[Frances144]

Ok, I just want to retrieve emails off my webmail page, look at the fora I subscribe to and even write my blog if I decide to start one.

 

Is the slightly keypad better than an iPod Touch?

[Lastditch]

The keypad worked fine, it was just a bit fiddly, the mouse is a small nipple as used in IBM laptops.

I was really glad the PatientLine was available as it helped to pass a lot of time. Worth the money.

[Frances144]

Update, no Patientline or Hospedia at Woodend.