[aprssig] Re:FS - Mobile Wifi Stompbox

[Dave Baxter]

Nice idea, website added to my list of ones to poke about later...

I've done the same sort of thing, with a 3G/GPRS data card, three wifi
laptops, and Windows ICS in the past.  OK, not a true WiFi "Access
Point", but for what we needed at the time, it worked.  Pity about the
3G/GPRS data bill that eventualy hit the credit card though (one PC was
trying to do updates we found out later!) we don't get free cellular
data at all over hear, sadly. 

Dave G0WBX.

PS:	If anyone want's to know how to "Shut up" an XP machine, so that
only data you initiate, or have requested goes in/out the 3G/GPRS route
(or any network) let me know.  It's not dificult, but it is fiddly.
However you can leave a live mobile data link up for hours with no cost
incured by unwanted updates, WGA, or other spurious traffic.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Tyers 
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Re:FS - Mobile Wifi Stompbox
> 
> Site back up:
> 
> "A Stompbox is a home-brew WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network) router.  
> In more human terms, it's a compact little box that gets data 
> from cellular towers and re-shares it for multiple computers to use.
> 
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