Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 15:32 +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Toby Proctor wrote: Just a thought I had last night, but is it possible to reverse the polarity of the WLAN on the N800 and turn it into a small, portable hotspot which uses e.g. an HSDPA cellphone as the backhaul? Toby Well even if it was possible, it isn't very good idea battery-wise. When running as AP battery would run out _very_ quicky since AP mode cannot use WLAN power saving and need to communicate a lot. Also the speed of WLAN in N800 isn't exactly great. So basically you would get expensive and slow access point with touscreen and high resolution display. GPRS isn't high bandwidth and there are many place with electricity (anywhere your car is for example :), GPRS coverage but otherwise without internet connection so I wouldn't dismiss so quickly the usefulness of an AP mode for the N800. Laurent ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?
Laurent GUERBY wrote: GPRS isn't high bandwidth and there are many place with electricity (anywhere your car is for example :), GPRS coverage but otherwise without internet connection so I wouldn't dismiss so quickly the usefulness of an AP mode for the N800. Yes but if you plan to keep it on charger, you can do same thing with cheap AP at 1/10 of N800's price and use N800 freely. Still agreed that it could be useful sometimes. Frantisek ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 21:13 +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Laurent GUERBY wrote: GPRS isn't high bandwidth and there are many place with electricity (anywhere your car is for example :), GPRS coverage but otherwise without internet connection so I wouldn't dismiss so quickly the usefulness of an AP mode for the N800. Yes but if you plan to keep it on charger, you can do same thing with cheap AP at 1/10 of N800's price and use N800 freely. The N800 attractiveness stems from its ability to replace many devices :). It's hard to find an AP that does bluetooth+GPRS or GPRS, do you have a reference? Laurent ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?
Laurent GUERBY wrote: It's hard to find an AP that does bluetooth+GPRS or GPRS, do you have a reference? Well, you could still use bluetooth phone attached to N800 as a default gateway for other devices on the net even if N800 is not AP. I don't have reference to AP with bluetooth built in but I guess any linux based wlan router with usb ports can use bluetooth dongle or phone attached directly over USB. Asus WL-500gP is nice (266MHz MIPS CPU, 32MB RAM, 2xUSB 2.0 ports, 2.4 based linux kernel) and relatively cheap piece of hardware. I'm using it with USB CDMA modem. It can do GPRS with attached phone too. Could probably work with USB BT dongle with some hacking. Frantisek ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?
Toby Proctor wrote: Just a thought I had last night, but is it possible to reverse the polarity of the WLAN on the N800 and turn it into a small, portable hotspot which uses e.g. an HSDPA cellphone as the backhaul? Toby Well even if it was possible, it isn't very good idea battery-wise. When running as AP battery would run out _very_ quicky since AP mode cannot use WLAN power saving and need to communicate a lot. Also the speed of WLAN in N800 isn't exactly great. So basically you would get expensive and slow access point with touscreen and high resolution display. Frantisek ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?
Just a thought I had last night, but is it possible to reverse the polarity of the WLAN on the N800 and turn it into a small, portable hotspot which uses e.g. an HSDPA cellphone as the backhaul? Toby ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?
Toby Just a thought I had last night, but is it possible to reverse the polarity of the WLAN on the N800 and turn it into a small, portable hotspot which uses e.g. an HSDPA cellphone as the backhaul? This came up before--basically you need to be able to choose master mode in the wifi driver. I think the answer from those in the know was that master mode isn't available in the driver we have. Brad ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
