On May 11, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Pete Davis wrote:
The $10/mo for web access with Sprint ONLY applies to the use on
the phone. When you plug in the data cable, and use it as a modem,
its like $0.30/kb. Learning that lesson cost me.
The unlimited phone-as-a-modem or data card rate is around $39/mo.
Does anyone know if there are drivers/capabilities to link a data
card to a Mikrotik or StarOS box? I guess that there are other
Linux drivers out there, so my thinking may work.
I have considered for some time the possibilities of making a box
to mount in my car (car-puter) with a Sprint (or Cingular, or
Verizon, or whoever) cellular type data connection, with a WIFI
client as the primary (or secondary) mode of connection. With DDNS,
access to the dash mounted camera, GPS stream, etc should be easy
enough, making it a roll-your-own LowJack type system. Also, in the
car, an ethernet jack to plug a laptop into could be nice, as well
as opening the possibilities to put in an ATA to make VOIP calls,
as well as adding a WIFI AP. $39/mo for unlimited data
connectivity, especially if it gives the speed/latency required to
do VOIP, seems like a bargain compared to $129/mo for 2000 minutes.
I guess a Windows-based system could do all of those things, but
the RAM/processor/etc/boot time/bluescreens associated with Windoze
don't seem to make it conducive to this type of project, IMO.
Its not mikrotik or starOS, but it is linux:
http://www.stompboxnetworks.com/
there are some similar commercial versions of it too.
Ryan
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