At 07:23 PM 11/29/2001, Maximiliano Goldschwartz wrote:
>Anybody managed to get online in a mobile way?
>Some wireless service?
>wouldn't it be awesome to be on the road and surf the vanagon archive?

I use a 3Com modem card with special cable to a Nokia 6162 cell phone (AT&T
system).  It's slow (usually 4800 bps) but it works wherever I can get an
analog connection.  There are phones that take a direct serial connection
(cheaper and faster) but these only work when you're in a digital service
area.  I dunno about "surfing the archives" though -- I think you need a
regular phone or a satellite connection or such for that.  I can just
barely work on the web if I suppress all images.  Even email is tedious
since a lot of people now have signatures bigger than messages used to
be...not to mention HTML and >>>>>>infinite regression.

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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