1. Yes the config was for those who were having as much trouble as I did initially using it. 2. Data plans are too expensive for my limited times of use. Cant compare much. When I surfed GSM Cingular I find the sled quicker by maybe 50%. But that is an uncertain observation. 3. My college is placing wifi sites around and I placed an old one in my office. The sled does detect what's out there. However, I'm uncertain about whether they are active or an old one until I delete it and re-scan. So it detects well, but is not a detector, unless you started by deleting everything and then scanned. That would show all the live nodes. 4 Wifi is only going to grow, since wifi routers are dirt cheap and competition is what it is. Unless of course competition is what it is and the data plans try to keep from being replaced by wifi. Bill Gates speculated about seven years ago that we would have slave handheld computers that would borrow from whichever nearby massive unit that was close by. [But what does he know. :) ] When computers came out we wondered whether TV's would become computers or computers would become TV's. We are finding that both are becoming Palm Pilots. Just remember when predicting technology that they said the the auto would never replace the horse because people were too attached to their horse. So dont get too attached to that data plan, or that wifi plan. As you said the "new one" is coming out (as it will proverbially do.)
--- In [email protected], "Wallach, Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, could you give some actual general impressions of the device, not so much configuration details, but how does it change the user experience over EDGE (or the CDMA equivalent)? The other question is, can it function as a wifi detector? Or actually, I know there's an app out there that lets your palm function as a wifi detector if it has wifi capability. Have you tried that? My thought is that I'll still be pretty disappointed because wifi signals are few and far between compared to the ubiquity of mobile signals. True there are Starbucks and Borders (and McDonalds in some areas), but that means yet more money per month (or whenever you want to use it), and of course there are your random cafes with wifi, residences with unprotected wifi (intentionally or unintentionally), and even a few areas of muni-wifi, but it still doesn't compare... > > Levi Wallach > > Blog: twelveblackcodemonkeys.com <http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.blog-city.com> > DVD Review Site: dvdmon.com <http://www.dvdmon.com> > Pictures at: http://wallachexpressions.smugmug.com/Photos%20by% 20Levi <http://wallachexpressions.smugmug.com/Photos%20by%20Levi> > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] on behalf of cobun7 > Sent: Wed 9/14/05 11:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Treo] Wifi sled (Enfora) > > > > The Enfora sled works well, after I conducted a lot of experimentation > that differs from the manual. I have stripped off encryption for now. > 1. The manual states, "When the status displays Associated you can > click on Connect to enable a Wireless connection." > 2. I tried the manual's way for a long, unsuccessful time. What did > work after selecting the wifi network name was to use the switch to > turn on the sled, watch the "TX" setting add bits, and finally when > the "RX" setting shows some bits after maybe two minutes push the > connect button to see the sled "Associated" > 3. Occasionally I have had to tap the sled power button to keep it > from "timing out." (That may be therapeutic, but it works for me.) > This process has added a lot of dependability in logging on. > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/y2FxlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
