"Patrick Harman" wrote in news:8NmdnTaRYey-
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Pat Harman



I gave up with all this nonsense and bought unlimited EVDO from Alltel
for my SELLphone for $25/mo. It gets around 800Kbps, most of the time,
and ALWAYS connects if the SELLphone can make a call.

By the time you buy all this extra wifi equipment and go through the
frustration of making it to that crappy wifi installation in the marina
office, $25/mo is cheap.

My connection is a MotoROKR Z6M Bluetooth-enabled tiny SELLphone on
Alltel's 800 Mhz B system in SC using Bluetooth DUN profile to a Nokia
N800 Linux internet tablet...or...Gateway laptop with a Bluetooth USB
dongle stuck in the side of it.

Bluetooth will communicate on 2400 Mhz for about 50', on a boat, so to
extend the range of the SELLphone just drop the phone into a Ziplock bag
and haul it up on a flag halyard to the spreaders and you'll get another
5 miles range from standing on the deck. The Bluetooth radio makes it up
the spreaders just fine...

For the ICW travelers, there is FREEWARE mapping and satellite photo
software for the Nokia N800/N810 Linux tablets, complements of the Linux
genius hackers. It's called Maemo Mapper and looks like:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=698iql3B824
Call it Google Earth in your pocket.

It updates the satellite squares via the BT phone internet quite nicely
on the road or on the ICW. You can also load the tablet's memory cards
before you leave and don't need to download on-the-fly.



Larry
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