[aprssig] OT: Broadband internet in remote locations
Arnie Shore
3ashore at Comcast.net
Thu Jun 12 08:04:05 EDT 2008
Wes, can tell us a bit more re yr " ... icsdatabase web app ..."?
I've been looking at doing something like that open source.
AS
Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote:
> We recently used my icsdatabase web app via a laptop with cellular
> internet for a NDMS drill in Spartanburg SC. The laptop used
> WinXP's ICS (internet connection sharing) and we piped that into the
> commo trailer's wifi router's WAN port. From there, we were able to
> feed 14 laptops within 400' of the trailer with no appreciable
> degredation of bandwidth. Our commo trailer is setup with an external
> cell antenna with FME connector and a few pigtails for common phones,
> and the wifi router has an external NMO 5dB antenna.
>
> Of course the ICS database app is designed to be low bandwidth and not
> loaded up with eye candy or flash BS. Very reminiscent of a 1990's
> web page... when people didn't have DSL and 5meg cable modems. The
> ritziest graphic on the site is an occasional GIF from findu, and
> other than that, some small animated 20x20px GIFs. The database
> allowed us to track patients from the point they were triaged in the
> field, decontaminated and then sent to the local hospitals. Even
> better, we were able to assign them to vehicles and use hooks to findu
> to show the locations of the vehicles. The hospitals knew which
> patients to expect and could read the triage info before the patients
> arrived. Heck, it even has a "magic" way (lol) to link family members
> and their pets. We are able to register patients by swiping the mag
> stripe on their driver's license too.
>
> This is what you can do with internet in the field.
>
> Wes
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