RE: [SLUG] mobile internet!

2000-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, [iso-8859-1] Bernhard Lüder wrote: Or alternatively you can use CDMA except the data kit costs you a arm and a leg for a pissy bit of cable and a useless cd which I haven't used yet. (After battling with the sales staff because it only says windoze on the box! - when in

RE: [SLUG] mobile internet!

2000-06-29 Thread Bernhard Lüder
Or alternatively you can use CDMA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Fitch Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2000 15:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] mobile internet! DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] From slashdot... Blackbox writes

RE: [SLUG] mobile internet!

2000-06-29 Thread Dave Fitch
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_L=FCder?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or alternatively you can use CDMA why? are you suggesting they don't drop out? cos mine does! (it's better than GSM but not as good as the marketing would have you believe). or are you referring to the supposedly much faster data rate

RE: [SLUG] mobile internet!

2000-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Borg
why? are you suggesting they don't drop out? cos mine does! (it's better than GSM but not as good as the marketing would have you believe). As far as voice goes it works way better outdoors than indoors, whereas gsm seems to do quite ok indoors. But it's comparing oranges and apples I

[SLUG] mobile internet!

2000-06-28 Thread DaZZa
From slashdot... Blackbox writes "This site answers the age old question: "What do you get when you run 16 mobile phones in parallel?" The answer is of course a 150 kbit/s connection to the internet for your car! Check it out at: http://www.megacar.com shows you the details. Wow! I want one!

Re: [SLUG] mobile internet!

2000-06-28 Thread Dave Fitch
DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] From slashdot... Blackbox writes "This site answers the age old question: "What do you get when you run 16 mobile phones in parallel?" The answer is of course a 150 kbit/s connection to the internet for your car! Check it out at: http://www.megacar.com shows you