Wireless internet

Hey Louie...whats with this Howdy business? You live in Septic Tank land?....lol


Can't help you with wireless though.



Cheers

Ask the same question HERE as a lot of these people use this system daily.

There's been a post on it in the last couple of days. Have a look back through the forum.

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I have it at home...I can take my laptop and sit infront of the TV and reply on here or I can go and sit out on the deck on a nice sunny day and enjoy the fresh air

There are so many options...I have a wireless router and I can get access anywhere in my house and outside. It's very cheap to do these days.

This is a really good resource:

Whirlpool

Stay away from Telstra if you can, their plans suck. Unfortunately they have the best coverage though so some places it's all you can get.

We had wireless broadband at home. Just your regular broadband connection with one of those DLink modem / routers and a laptop. Like others have said you can use the internet anywhwere in the house (or out). It can also be shared and used by more than one laptop at the same time. Only downside is if you don't set up the security and password on your modem then any passer by can park outside your house and use it too!

Otherwise there is "mobile broadband" as in sattelite, 3G, next G or paying for access at hotspots. This is generally much more expensive (about twice the price for the same downlad quota and speed).

Now I can only have dialup, and about 30kbps at that, instead of the standard 54. I used to pay $54 a month for 3gig downloads and 1500kbps speed. Now in the bush I either have to get sattelite or NextG, and that would cost over $100 a month for the same speed and data! So here I am $25 a month for unlimited but very slow dialup and go to the telecentre (boradband at $3/hr) for any major downloads (yeah I carry my Apple iMac in too!). Either way Internode is worth looking at if you're in the market for a new provider.

Whirlpool is a fantastic resource for everything internet.

You question could be about either:

* WiFi connections - generally here you have a black box connected to your phone line for ADSL (say), and within your home or office a device with WiFi support (otherwise known as 802.3) can connect to the internet via this black box

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* 3G of Next-G cellular mobile service which uses the same infrastructure as telephones. Here coverage, service and reliability are pretty much the same as they are for a mobile phone. You need either a 3G or Next-G card for your computer, which connects to the network in the same way as your mobile phone (and has a SIM and a number of its own), or you can use a cable or Bluetooth between your 3G or Next G phone and your computer so your computer can use the phone to connect to the internet.

I use both of the above. I have a Next-G phone and it works pretty well. I only use the Next-G data pack when I am on the road.

Cheers
Andrew.