Hi Richard and thanks for your supportive and understanding comments. Wireless Internet access is a feature built-in to every copy of KeySoft 6.1. But to use it, you'll need to purchase a supported wireless Ethernet card. If you want to use it at home, you will also need a wireless access point of some description. The advantage of WiFi is that you can use your Braillenote at the thousands of hot spots around that place, such as those you find in cafes, airports and college campuses. You can also freely move around your home and access the Internet from anywhere completely wirelessly, if you have wireless set up at home.
I guess it is technically possible to share a dial-up Internet connection wirelessly, however it will be slow and frankly I'm not sure if it is worth it. With ADSL or cable, you'd have a significantly faster Internet experience. Hope this helps. Jonathan Mosen BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager HumanWare DDI: +64-3-373-6192 Fax: +64-3-384 4933 Mobile: +64-21 466 736 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.humanware.com richard Van Driel <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .com> To Sent by: Braillenote List braillenote-bounc <[email protected]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc .com Subject RE: [Braillenote] 6.1 17/02/2005 10:41 a.m. Please respond to Braillenote List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .pulsedata.com> Hi Jonathan; I am really glad that you take the time to really check out stuff before shipping at Pdi. In a way, the delay isn't too bad for me, because I still haven't gotten any word on my update yet from my rehab and inl centers. They make a turtle look like an Indi 500 racer! anyway, if I am lucky enough to get the funding, I am happy to know that I will have the new upgrade 6.1 built in so to speak! I have a couple of question for you though. first, I hear that wifi is optional and has an additional cost? What is the advantage of wifi and is this still true if I am sending in my classic motherboard unit for a total upgrade to the new motherboard and all that? Second, at our house, we are using a regular dialup connection, since we found one that is right in our price range. Is there a way to connect to a regular dialup wirelessly with a router or something and what card would I need to do this with the bn? I asked someone who knows computers about this, and they keep saying I need Dsl or something. That is more expensive, and for now, the regular dialup is right for us, even though I wish it had a spam blocker so I wouldn't get all that junk on my poor bn. I am still using the loner I got from my center for the blind, and although it has it's quirks, I can go online and send and receive email, so I'm not totally sad. However, I would like to get mine upgraded so I won't suddenly find myself without this neat capability whenever the center want there quirky loner back. Cross your fingers with me Jonathan, maybe it will make the agencies here work a little faster. Then you guys can give me the goldplated motherboard and 6.1 platinum! (Grin) Richard, still hoping > ----- Original Message ----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:23:35 +1300 >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] 6.1 >Diane, I am really pleased you made this point, because frankly, at the end >of a pretty tough week from this list, it gives me an avenue to comment. >in principle, I agree with the point you make, and I wouldn't have told the >world about KeySoft 6.1 when I did except for one thing. We were launching >the BrailleNote PK. It was really important to us that we let people know >what we were working on for the other members of the BrailleNote family, so >that loyal customers knew that they hadn't been abandoned. We'd put a lot >of research into ensuring that this very complex upgrade would be possible, >and by the time I announced it, we were sure that it could happen. >When we are dealing with software, what we can provide is our best >estimate. What we did with KeySoft 6.1 was incredibly ambitious, because >we're not just dealing with a new version of the software that adds new >features, but also a process whereby we completely take KeySoft out of >memory, and run a new piece of software that allows the entire operating >system to be upgraded. And, it is a completely accessible operating system >upgrade, something extremely rare. Now we could have just stopped work, >said that we'd ship it in December, and who cares about the consequences. >But how responsible would that have been? Who would have thanked us for >that? We have not just a legal but a moral obligation to make sure this >release is as robust as we can make it, and our development team here have >put in huge hours making this happen. We needed to test, test and test, >given the complex nature of this upgrade. We had a fantastic beta team who, >just as we thought we'd cracked all the serious issues, discovered some >small something that would have made the upgrade less attractive. Despite >the flack from some on this list, I am glad we fixed those issues rather >than releasing recklessly. >So while I appreciate the frustration, we have many customers who rely on >their units for study, business and professional management. We need to do >the responsible thing and ship a product when we genuinely consider it >shippable, and we also needed to let owners of the existing members of the >BrailleNote family know in no uncertain terms that the BrailleNote PK >didn't represent the end of the line for them. >Jonathan Mosen >BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager >HumanWare >DDI: +64-3-373-6192 >Fax: +64-3-384 4933 >Mobile: +64-21 466 736 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.humanware.com >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
