Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:45:52 -0500
From: "Ken Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Car Power, Wireless Gateways and Virtual CD's
Where did you find the 3Com wireless gateway for $234?
Firstsource has it at over $700?
The rebate on the PCMCIA cards is only good if you buy a 3Com
access point, I'd buy one, if I could get it for a final cost of
< $150 (after the rebate on my previously purchased 3Com
AirConnect PCMCIA cards).
Thanks in advance,
Ken
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From: Lee A. Dickinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:01 AM
To: Libretto
Subject: Car Power, Wireless Gateways and Virtual CD's
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 06:50:21 -0500
From: "Lee A. Dickinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Car Power, Wireless Gateways and Virtual CD's
A few things of possible interest:
1) Several people asked me if I was sure that the Mobility
Electronics
MAA-3406-10 air/auto power adapter would work with the L100
because the
literature stated Toshiba 3000 series. Well, I got it and it
works
great. The MAA-3404-10 model which is all over eBay is for the
L50-70
series. Someone pointed out that they had successfully used the
straight
auto voltage for a long time. In addition to being the correct
15v, this
unit has filtering of power line noise. Starter motors can
induce voltage
surges over 100v when the car is started. That's why cell phone
adapters
(cheap ones) say to plug them in after you start the car.
Nobody does
that, but last month my wife's cell phone charger died of this
abuse. I
think this adapter is a good solution. Best price I found
(about $10 less)
was at buy.com Here's a link to them:
http://www.us.buy.com/default.asp
2) I went shopping on zdnet.com for a 3com Wireless gateway and
AirConnect
ethernet card and found a super deal. Most of the 3com Home
Wireless
Gateways were priced from $299 to $349. List is $399. There
was one
company with a price of $234. I thought it was an error. The
AidConnect
was $124 vs. $175 most other places. To top it off, 3com has a
$50 mail-in
rebate that ends with orders postmarked today. Have to hurry if
this
interests you. So, after rebate, what would have cost me $580
for a total
wireless solution ends up $330. Here is a link to the supplier:
http://www.firstsource.com/gen/B2B/FSI/Splash/default.asp
3) I am also in the process of auditioning three different
Virtual CD
programs that I found on zdnet.com. I will post the results.
Right now I
am working with the Paragon CD Emulator product. An advantage
over direct
copy is that it has good compression and takes less space on the
HDD. It
also works slick for those pesky 2-disk programs (like
MapSource) that want
to find the data disk in the same drive that you installed from
and can
detect the difference between autorunning a CD and just trying
to run Setup
from the copied-over files. I installed both CD's in the
Virtual CD drive
and installed from the virtual CD. Works slick, but I still
want to see
what the other products do.
4) I am finding ZDNet to be a great resource. Lots of
downloads of
shareware, and plenty of information.You have probably all been
there, done
that, but here it is:
http://www.zdnet.com/
DISCLAIMER: I have no personal interest in any of these
ventures. I just
thought some of you would find them helpful as I did. To the
rest, I
apologize for the use of bandwidth. Also, with the 3com rebate
running out
today, that news seemed urgent. Best - Lee
Lee A. Dickinson / Colbert, Georgia, USA
'92 R100RT "El Ladero Valdez"
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