Saturday, December 10, 2005

Bandwidth? I'm drowning in the stuff. Not only do I have my home network (with wireless if I so please) but Phase I of my plan for mobile bandwidth is complete.

http://www.stompboxnetworks.com/

I saw this article in Make: magazine. Its basically a router between a cellular internet connection and standard 802.11 wireless. The main components are a PCMCIA card that can connect to the cellular network, and a embedded board that you can install Linux on. From there you can start doing anything you can think of with a network. GPSs, mobile webcams, stuff like that. Plus, I'm on the road enough to justify a device that can give me bandwidth anywhere.

So Phase I was to get the card and try it out on my laptop. It works nicely.
Phase II is to buy the embedded board and use the ethernet connections to provide this to multiple computers.
Phase III is to add 802.11
Phase IIII is to add cool stuff like webcams in my car and what not.

I also have to get an antenna in there somewhere.

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