<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>This is what you can do with internet in the field.</div>
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<div>Wes<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Bill Vodall WA7NWP <<a href="mailto:wa7nwp@gmail.com">wa7nwp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">>> Some may not be aware but if you have no internet connection and out of<br>>> radio range this router is really "killer" for the home, mobile or Incident<br>>> Command.<br>
<br></div>Anybody can now have "metered" internet -- where there's coverage --<br>for about $70 a month.<br><br>There's one group that can get Instant Messaging, Weather info,<br>tactical reporting, (tiny) web pages even email that's unlimited with<br>
NO coverage limits for (nearly) free. Now that's priceless...<br><br>73<br><font color="#888888">Bill - WA7NWP<br></font>
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