NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: KEITH SHAW ON WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICES 09/09/04 Today's focus: Mailbag: Readers like their traveling access points, Part 2
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Business trips and lodging can become a profit center if you use this business model." >From Dan D.: "If budgets start really getting tight, you might be forced to cover the cost of your room by becoming a traveling salesman by day and a mobile ISP at night. Most hotels charge $14.95 per 24-hour block, you could charge your neighbors $12.95 and undercut the hotel to pay for room charges." >From Jim C.: "[Set up a] temporary Cyber-caf�. Set a time, have people show up, pay the person with the access point and all share. Many contribute, lowering the cost of all. Then have money left over for a latte." And then there were readers with some really innovative uses (thanks T.J., Mike S. and Gordon M.): * "You're locked out of your room because that electronic key ��thingy doesn't work and you can sit in the hall and do your ��e-mail." * "You have a husband and two kids with you and want to hook up ��two laptops so they'll stay off yours while they play games." * "There's nothing you want to watch on cable movies so you can ��hitch up your own and watch on your bed." * "You want to sit ANYWHERE else than at the desk with the sun ��on your screen, a chair that gives you a backache and a lamp ��that couldn't keep a fly awake at night." * "You are traveling for business and need to share documents ��quickly, finish the [PowerPoint] presentation, share it and ��check e-mail before an important meeting. Get to the closest ��Kinko's and connect the wireless access point to their free ��Ethernet connection for your associates to log in, check e-mail, ��exchange files and avoid any T-mobile Wi-Fi charges. This is ��definitely a winner!" * "We have employees who travel to customers or supplier sites ��with laptops that expect [Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol] ��addressing, and our laptops are locked down. If the site they ��are visiting does not support DHCP and only uses static IP ��addressing, our users cannot make the network changes to the ��laptop. The router always provides them with the appropriate IP ��address for that network without need to have Admin privileges ��on their laptop. We stumbled onto this need while an employee of ��ours was visiting a Korean plant that did not use DHCP. They ��could plug the appropriate static IP address in the router and ��then have the router give the laptop the correct DHCP address ��and no one needs Admin privileges for the laptop." Finally, a few readers suggested some other equipment, including this one from ASUS: <http://www.nwfusion.com/nlmobile573> We haven't tried it yet, but several readers have, and give it their endorsement. Thanks to all those who wrote in, all of the responses show there's a real need for traveling access points, this should make all the vendors of these devices very happy. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Keith Shaw Keith Shaw is Senior Reviews Editor at Network World. In addition, he writes the " Cool Tools <http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/cooltools.html> " column, which looks at gizmos, gadgets and other mobile computing devices. You can reach Keith at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Intel A NW Special Report: The State of Wireless LANs Wireless has becomes more integrated and accepted as a way of doing business. 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