Re: Wireless internet

This answers most of my questions. Thanks.

I will still like to know if anyone tried D-Link with success or can
recommend a better solution with reasonable price.

Regarding browser experience, I agree it is uncomfortable to see most of
the applications if you can only see 320x240 of them. However, I saw
some people were porting browser into PDA, so I assume it is still
possible to make it reasonable good. Assuming it is good enough to use a
browser with screen resolution of 640x480. If a PDA-specific browser can
reduce size of everything by two fold into 320x240, it may still make a
ok comfortable experience. It's just a speculation. Any comments or real
life experiences? I thought WinCE came with a Internet Explorer. I
wonder what kind of experience you get by using that to browse pages.

Jih-tung Pai

"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:32:30PM -0700, Jih-tung Pai wrote:
>
> :1. Is iPaq good for this purpose?
>
> :2. The way I imagine is to use iPaq as a X terminal to use my other
> :desktop which has DSL connection. Is that the way how people do it? If
> :it is, do you get good fonts so it will look nice. If not, what will be
> :the alternative? One way I can imagine is to use a browser in iPaq
> :running familiar. Which browser is the browser of choice for familiar?
>
> I find the screen too small for most desktop apps. If you want to use
> a text browser like lynx and use a console email client (mutt, elm,
> pine, etc) you can use ssh to connect to another machine and read it
> on the FAMILIAR rxvt
>
> :3. I am just learning wireless internet. Do I need to use PC card or
> :there is CF card that can do the same thing? Is CF expansion sleeve
> :smaller and cheaper?
>
> You need a PCMCIA card, though the CF expantion is smaller (don't know
> pricing), it won't handle a network card.
>
> :4. You can buy wireless LAN kit consisting of 1 access point and 2
> :wireless PC cards for $378. Is it a good buy? Will it work with iPaq +
> :familiar. If not, what will be the alternatives? Is access point needed
> :in my case?
>
> Seems OK to me, but I haven't been pricing them out.
>
> An access point will make your life MUCH easier, though you can get a
> PCI adapter of the wireless PCMCIA card and set up your desktop to
> route it, there's definately alot of weirdness involved, took me the
> better part of a day to setup my laptop to act as a router between my
> home wired network and the ipaq wireless.
>
> I guess that's not too much of an investment of time if it's a
> permanent setup, mine was just for what was left of the weekend.
>
> :5. Just forget about iPaq and familiar for a monent. What will be the
> :best way to have what I want -- a very portable and fast internet access
> :around the house? Notebook is too big for me.
>
> Sony makes some pretty small vaios, almost palm top, don't know the
> model numbers off hand, slightly larger than checkbook sized. If you
> want some Netscape like browser you'll probably want the extra screen
> realestate
>
> my $0.02,
>
> -Jon
Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 19:42:44 EDT