wi-fi and a truck

cool! even more info! thanks!

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Believe it or not when I was driving back from Wyoming, Iowa or Nebraska had Wi-Fi at their rest areas. Didn't try it out though...

 

Any Windows mobile phone you can use as a modem, either via BT or tethered. Here is the dirty little secret though....if you use Windows Dialup on the newer phones, then you'll be forced to go on the tethered plan ($50 a month) where if you use a program called PDA2Net, you can workaround the wireless carriers tethering plans and just get the Vision package (this for for Sprint devices).

The Mogul is currently the only Rev A Smartphone, but some new phones are supposed to hit by Q2 or Q3. The one I am waiting on is the HTC Raphael which is supposed to replace the Touch for Sprint.

 

Oregon?

 

double post, sorry

 

I tried using the free stuff in Iowa, iirc I only got it to work once, then was not able to log into it any of the other times I tried.

I just usually sucked it up and bought a one night session at the J's if I was close to one...

Kinda

There were many nights I hit the cap on their data transfer...

 

Iowa's the state I was thinking of with their "rest areas" and "MODERN rest areas". I should note that I also didn't get it to work.

 

The free wifi in Iowa, Texas, and a couple others are almost always a "b" connection, very slow.

Flying J has a good speed, and usually their signal is OK. T/A is a good wifi spot.

I have tried several times at the Pilot to get on with Siricom, but I don't have the right stuff I guess. I get an IP address, but no connection. I suspect it is a program I need for that.

Lots of open routers out there too, I recommend a wifi card, or a laptop with a built-in card.

The cell phone connection is a good way to go, it can be expensive, but usually you have a more reliable connection.

 

a or b - slow. G is good. N is better

Interesting - if you got an IP address, you got a connection, you just weren't being routed out to the internet. Was it supposed to be free, or a paid for service? (and their internet connection may have been down - it happens more than ISPs want to admit)

Can't count on those, though, and most often they're attached to a DSL line. In most parts of the country, that's half (or less) the speed of a T-1. Get a few users on there and you are talking congested cable-modem speeds. gah!

A cell/modem connection is what I could call a 'last gasp' choice.It will probably work, and you can deal with a few emails with it - but any kind of heavy user will shriek and curl up in a little ball if he has to use that all the time.