Mobile Internet Access

AsaJay · Post by **AsaJay** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:37 pm

A technical question, starting locally before I surf the bigger boards.

If you wanted to set up your car, with full-time internet access, via wireless, how would you do it?

- Equipment (CDPD, GPRS, CDMA, speed, etc.)
- Service Provider (has to service Eastern Washington)

The concept is this:
You've parked in a rather remote location, but need access to the internet. No DSL, no dial-up, etc. In addition, you need to exit your car, and sit with friends some 50 to 100 feet away. You want to use your notebook computer to access a wireless access point in your car (via Ad-Hoc network), and then have it then translate to the Internet over the larger wide area wirelesss net.

How would -you- do it?

Post by **eddiecanuck** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:52 pm

I'm guessing (and I'm no wireless expert) the easiest would be a CDPD card or something like it in the laptop that could dial into a service provider. I would think anything you want to have wireless is going to be tough to have without a dial-up provider since it has to be mobile. Even if you put a wireless access point in the vehicle and a regular wireless NIC in the laptop, the access point will need a modem to dial into a service provider. I don't know of any kind of wireless network that is available over long distances such to support mobility. Maybe one of the wireless gurus knows something. I know we have discussed things like this with our mobile collection systems and we always came back to needing to dial into a service provider for an IP.

Post by **bio** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:08 pm

Personally, I think POTS is far more cost effective.

You will, however, need to mount a giant spool on the back of the pantera.

AsaJay · Post by **AsaJay** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:20 pm

bio wrote:Personally, I think POTS is far more cost effective.

You will, however, need to mount a giant spool on the back of the pantera.

Photoshop -THAT-

Encap · Post by **Encap** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:25 am

Your best bet is going to be on Sprint or Verizon's 1xRTT network via PCMCIA card in your laptop.

I think Sprint calls it Vision. It'll be semi fast. You're supposed to get 144kbps (leetle K, not beeg K) on 1xRTT but that is HEAVILY impacted by loading on the site, how their backhauls are setup, and signal quality.

AsaJay · Post by **AsaJay** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:27 pm

Yea, that's kinda what I was thinking. It's not looking like speed isn't going to be very fast. It also looks like it's mostly going to be a dial-up kind of thing.

I'll keep looking. Thanks for the feedback.

Encap · Post by **Encap** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:54 pm

No problem. I still owe Miftah one. I got his email, when I returned from the wilderness and promptly deleted it.

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