vehicle set-up
Submitted: Thursday, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:14
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Hi, We're preparing for a trip through the center with a caravan. We're on the Sunshine Coast, and trying to buy a Sat/Cdma phone, but don't know
where to start. We want one that automatically changes between satellite & CDMA, probably Iridium (hoping it will be reliable) and maybe even something we can get onto the internet with - e.g. trip reports, pics, send/receive emails (is that possible ?) - can anyone advise us as to
where to start looking? Also, we'd like to put a reversing camera on the back of the van, had one before, but it wasn't successful, and too bulky. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Guys.
Noels.
Reply By: Notso - Thursday, Apr 20, 2006 at 13:46
Thursday, Apr 20, 2006 at 13:46
Have a talk to telstra, they have a combined Satphone/CDMA that automatically switches between the two
services, the default is CDMA. You get reasonable speeds on the cdma, but I wouldn't want to be paying for the time, or the downloads if you want to browse the internet. Good for email as long as you don't want to send big piccies.
Have a talk to them about the wireless network with CDMA fallback. A PCMCIA Card is plugged into the notebook.
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