Peggy, What wireless is, it's kind of like having a little radio type thingy in your braillenote or pda or laptop or whatever. Your using your cell phone is something like wireless, but in true wireless, you don't need the cell phone. You use a card, which looks just like a conpact flash card, except that it has a little box thing at one end with an antana on it that looks like a little piece of insulated wire. You also have another thingy attached to your pc or whatever you are using us your, I guess you could call it your base. Anyway, you connect inserting your wireless card into the bn in this case and then you can connect to the web or get email or whatever Many airports, hotels, etc have wireless connectivity, which means that all you have to do is connect to their server or base or whatever they call it and then you can get your email or surf the web or whatever. The advantages of wireless is that you don't have a whole bunch of cables to worry about and you can, for example, sit out on your patio and do whatever you want to do online. I think there are actually several ways you can connect wirelessly, but as I have never used it yet, I don't know all the are and outs. I do know that wireless has been unsecure, meaning that anyone with a laptop or pda could cruise by and using wireless detection programs, tune in to your "conversation." >From what I can understand, this is starting to change, hence all the talk of >100 and g and all that. If I've left anything out, or if I got something wrong, please someone, correct me. As I said, I personally haven't used it yet. Maybe now with the new update or the new bn pk, there will be a point where I can use it. While we are on the topic of connectivity, will the new pk still have a way to connect via modem cord Jonathan? Hope all this helps and is not too far off topic
Richard >----- Original Message ----- >From: Peggy Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [email protected] >Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:29:52 -0700 >Subject: [Braillenote] Wireless connecting >Hi, guys. I don't understand this wireless connectivity that the upgraded >BN will have. I'm still doing the dial-up thing, so the only time I'm >wireless is when I'm using my cell phone. Would this wireless thing be >something I could use, say at an airport or someplace, or would that only >be for people who have dsl or whatever? I don't really understand all >these things and the discussion about what kinds of cards or connections >are secure or insecure, all this G connection, etc. I'd like to learn more >about this if it would be something I could use when I upgrade my BN. >Peggy >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kernsac >MSN Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
