User`s guide

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The cellular service provider may offer access to the Internet using a service called GPRS
(general packet radio service). Data is exchanged in small blocks, or packets, to a server running
Metretek’s DC-2000 software. A GPRS call is generally billed by the amount of data exchanged
rather than by the minute. Service is generally purchased in increments of 1 million bytes (1Mb)
per month. GPRS has the advantage of being able to retrieve data from any DCM-200
regardless of how far away the unit is from the central computer, without the expense of long-
distance phone calls.
At the present time the DCM-200 itself can communicate using CSD or GPRS. When an ANSI
C12-complient meter is attached, only GPRS is supported.