Wireless Broadband

[tisoy]

What do I need to purchase to be able to access a Broadband Internet connection in a remote location (ie sitting in a park) using a Laptop?

Sorry for the dumb question, but, I need to know everything that's required-including ISP plan(I am currently with netspace), type of laptop/specs and anything else I need to connect to the net.

Thanks!

tisoy

[Kilojim]

I have often wondered how you can access the internet anywhere that you go. I always thought that you had to be in a wireless hotspot to be able to do that, but I have seen adverts recently saying that you can use the internet anywhere in the world wirelessly. Is this actually possible or is it just the ISP's tricking you into buying internet from them?

[sb225]

Originally Posted by tisoy

What do I need to purchase to be able to access a Broadband Internet connection in a remote location (ie sitting in a park) using a Laptop?

Sorry for the dumb question, but, I need to know everything that's required-including ISP plan(I am currently with netspace), type of laptop/specs and anything else I need to connect to the net.

Thanks!

tisoy

i am too looking on this problem from several days but apparently wireless internet is new so we cant get for cheap and cant acess everywhere but in the future we cna get it
as i am from india and we had an wireless modem from tata connection which can be acessible from everywhere but i want to get dirctly to laptop instead of taking modem and laptop everywhere
contact to your local ISPs so you will get answer

[GoPC]

This issue is network dependent. The problem is what is referred to in the Industry as "the Last Mile Solution" and it is the golden egg, the needle in the haystack, the Holy Grail.

Read my post on "the Key to Wireless Internet" for more information on that and what's being done to combat it. I don't want to post the same thing twice. Find it here: the KEY to Wirelss Internet...

Basically, the problem is that virtually every WWAN system out there has very limited broadcast range (power) and is line of sight dependent. This limits how and where you can get connected when you are mobile. There is an unrealistic expectation of what's currently available and that drives the misconception even more... it also drives the need to complete that "last mile solution".

WE have that Solution. Again, read the "Secret" post for more information but in a nutshell, the key is building a network that is NOT line-of-sight dependent by making each user and network node a broadcast point of that network. Each new user ads another "hot spot" increasing coverage area and lines of communication, effortlessly increasing bandwidth and area at ZERO cost to the network owners.

We have been beta testing for almost 5 years now and are ready to release publically here pretty quick. Doing an IPO for the releast. This is the only legitimate last-mile solution out there and will take the WWAN arena by storm.

THEN, you WILL be able to go virtually anywhere without hot-spot dependence and enjoy personal mobile computing freedoms.

That is, after all, what GoPC is all about.

I've spent the last dozen years surrounded by some of the most briliant minds developing this product. If you have questions on how it all works or why certain aspects of Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN) work the way they do, don't hesitate to ask.

GoPC

[firestorm]

Wow, lots of info there. Just one question, how would you prevent someone from driving around and hitting the "hot-spots" like in subdivisions and haxing off of someone elses IP address. Are the passwords involved given to every buyer? Also, if the user is being used as a broadcast point as well once he uses the WWAN, would that effect the speed that he/she is surfing at? Kinda interested in this, thanks!

[VAIO]

Nothing prevents people from driving around finding hot-spots. This is called War-driving. However, people can "secure" their wireless access points with WEP or WPA encryption. I put secure in quotes because there are still ways to crack the encryption of a wireless router. Also, wireless routers have the ability to have MAC filtering, which only allows comptuers with the correct MAC address (unique to every computer) to access the network. Also, you can turn off broadcasting of the SSID on a router, which is the name that shows up in a wireless networks list. So if someone doesn't know its there, they are less likely to connect to it.

So basically you have to buy a wireless card for your computer, find a "hot-spot" with an unsecured network (or it can be secured if you know the password) and connect. Now as to if you can connect anywhere in the world, cell phone companies are providing that service. I'm not exactly sure on how that works but it's out there. And multiple people connecting to your wireless router would slow down the connection depending on how many people are using it and what they are doing on it.

Hope it helps.

[GoPC]

First off, there are no "hot spots" with the GoPCNET Wireless system I was talking about earlier... when we install a network in a city, the network covers the entire area... it's one big hotspot.

Secondly, we use a proprietary algorithym that incorporates PCM technologies and unique ISSIDN numbers to authenticate each use and data packet on the network. These IDs are hard coded into the customer units and managed by the network admin. They are uploaded at the head end and authenticated through network propegation. Once uploaded, the customer has access anywhere on the network regardless of the routing he/she take to reach a tower. If any transmission is not properly ID'd then the data is considered noise and ignored by the system. If the data is intercepted by an outside source but doesn't contain the proper PCM coding, it can't be decrypted.

Thirdly, the information is trisected between three primary source points in a market that not only broadcasts omni-directionally in that market but also carries the equivilent of an OC3 connection wirelessly between them, creating one huge broadcast sharing point.

Anywhere you are in a network, you have the 3 main points, multiplied by the 3 points, multiplied by the number of repeaters, multiplied by the number of users, each with an 11 MBPS connection set as 1.5 MBPS with Burst to 10 with a 1 MBPS overhead for Inteilliget Routing usage.

That's the quick and dirty... LOTS more to talk about but that's about as short as I can make it.

GoPC

[firestorm]

Thanks GoPC and VAIO, that cleared things up alot. Now that I have some absic info, it's time to google . Thanks again!

[GoPC]

Google is a VERB... how do you like that

LOL!!!

If you have any more questions, I'm here to help

GoPC

[firestorm]

haha!
Thanks, I am sure there will be more down the road on this

[McDaddy]

i dont know how importans it is for you to be able to access the internet from anywhere and everywhere. i do know that there is a way that you can use a cell phone and connect it to a laptop and acc the internet using a cell phone. im not sure how its done or how fast it is, but i have herd of it being done.
here is a link

http://www.futuredial.com/Products/snapdialer/P_SD.aspx

persionally i dont like to be that connected.

[GoPC]

It's BUTT KICKIN SLOW.

I have unlimited usage on my cell phone for expressly that reason. There are time when I need the access so I hook up to my cell and OH THE SUFFERING...

I thought the ond 9800 baud was bad. ARGGG!!!

Seriously, I'd say connectivity is in the teen kbps. NOT good... but will due in a pinch.

I can't wait for GoPCNET to be deployed nationally. Say it with me... ahhh....

GoPC