GPRS is the General Packet Radio Service; it works only with Packet protocols - the commonest of which is, of course, IP.

I assume you will be using IP?

The whole point about using IP is that it ubiquitous, and it is totally independent of the actual physical transport medium used.

Therefore your PC end really doesn't need to know anything about GPRS - it just uses a standard IP connection.

Similarly, at the microcontroller end, the IP part neither knows nor cares that GPRS is being used.



Clearly, your PC musty be connected to the internet!

Being a "client" or a "server" is simply a matter of the role that the PC plays in the particular communication - the PC could be a client for some communications, and a server for others.

You don't need a domain name - you can just work with "raw" IP addresses.


yes - see above.


You have a public IP address when you are connected to the internet; you can find what it is by using sites like http://www.whatismyip.com/
What you probably don't have, however, is a static IP address; ie, you will get a different IP address each time you connect to the internet.

Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) may be able to provide you with a static IP address (for a fee), or you could use a "dynamic DNS" service like http://www.no-ip.com/ or http://www.dyndns.com/ et al...


Not at all!

As the name suggests, FTP is for Files - so it might not be a good choice if your data is not "file-like"


Once you have an IP link, you can use any standard IP-based protocol - or you can "roll your own" using the "raw" IP sockets...

eg, you might POST your data using HTTP...

Here's some tutorials:

http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http
http://www.frostbytes.com/~jimf/pap...nsock.html
http://www.frostbytes.com/~jimf/pap...ckets.html

You should also search for "TCP/IP" here for previous discussions...