Monday, November 28, 2005
Popular Science: "Be Your Own Hotspot"
Posted by Janak Parekh in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 10:00 PM
"I love the fact that more and more devices are sporting built-in Wi-Fi--the Sony PSP, smartphones, even Kodak’s EasyShare-One digital camera. The lone hitch: Wi-Fi is useless without a hotspot...What if you could marry the short-range power of Wi-Fi with the huge coverage areas of high-speed cellular services such as EV-DO to create a portable hotspot? You could use any Wi-Fi-enabled gadget anywhere you’ve got a cell signal. Play multiplayer games with friends in the park, or blog an event in real-time. Since EV-DO works at freeway speeds, you could even give Internet access to an entire road-trip caravan. Those are exactly the kinds of things you can do with the backpack below. Its secret ingredient: the Junxion Box. Plug a cellular-network card into the book-size open-source-based device, and voilà--instant Wi-Fi hotspot, with speeds averaging around 700 kilobits per second."
Now, who says Bluetooth is complicated? :lol: In all seriousness, this is a pretty neat hack. And, besides, until we migrate to BT 2.0 it won't be able to handle full sustaned EVDO speeds, so it's either USB cables or heavy backpacks until then.
Now, who says Bluetooth is complicated? :lol: In all seriousness, this is a pretty neat hack. And, besides, until we migrate to BT 2.0 it won't be able to handle full sustaned EVDO speeds, so it's either USB cables or heavy backpacks until then.
