My Sprint phone supports connection to the net but it is 115K baud.
It doesn't work like a dial-up modem though. It goes directly through
a wireless network. Several years ago the service entailed a dialup
setup but I don't think that is available anymore. Perhaps one of
the other carriers that are not PCS supports a dialup service.

Doug
s/v CAllista

"Gogarty" wrote in message
...
Looks like we may be spending a month on the boat in September. No
problem with that except we can't just cut the cords and sail away.
Business still has to be attended to and business is highly dependent on
computers and communications.

Is it possible or feasible to link a computer to a cell phone so that one
can access the Internet and, more important, send and receive data that
can only be managed through a dial-up connection? The server we deal with
is very unforgiving. One has to send data over a 28K dial-up line or it
just won't accept it.

Any thoughts or experience? It's a 37-foot sloop so we are not talking
Marsat.

On Tue, 3 May 2005 18:58:36 -0400, "Doug Dotson"
dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote:

My Sprint phone supports connection to the net but it is 115K baud.
It doesn't work like a dial-up modem though. It goes directly through
a wireless network. Several years ago the service entailed a dialup
setup but I don't think that is available anymore. Perhaps one of
the other carriers that are not PCS supports a dialup service.

Doug
s/v CAllista

"Gogarty" wrote in message
...
Looks like we may be spending a month on the boat in September. No
problem with that except we can't just cut the cords and sail away.
Business still has to be attended to and business is highly dependent on
computers and communications.

Is it possible or feasible to link a computer to a cell phone so that one
can access the Internet and, more important, send and receive data that
can only be managed through a dial-up connection? The server we deal with
is very unforgiving. One has to send data over a 28K dial-up line or it
just won't accept it.

Any thoughts or experience? It's a 37-foot sloop so we are not talking
Marsat.



Verizon does dial-up. Free on the weekends
Joe

Nice thing about Sprint is that net access is flat rate. No minutes.

"joe_323" wrote in message
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On Tue, 3 May 2005 18:58:36 -0400, "Doug Dotson"
dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote:

My Sprint phone supports connection to the net but it is 115K baud.
It doesn't work like a dial-up modem though. It goes directly through
a wireless network. Several years ago the service entailed a dialup
setup but I don't think that is available anymore. Perhaps one of
the other carriers that are not PCS supports a dialup service.

Doug
s/v CAllista

"Gogarty" wrote in message
...
Looks like we may be spending a month on the boat in September. No
problem with that except we can't just cut the cords and sail away.
Business still has to be attended to and business is highly dependent on
computers and communications.

Is it possible or feasible to link a computer to a cell phone so that
one
can access the Internet and, more important, send and receive data that
can only be managed through a dial-up connection? The server we deal
with
is very unforgiving. One has to send data over a 28K dial-up line or it
just won't accept it.

Any thoughts or experience? It's a 37-foot sloop so we are not talking
Marsat.



Verizon does dial-up. Free on the weekends
Joe