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Car Forum / Land Rover Cars / October 2004WAY OT: Laptop internet connection
So when I'm out in my LANDROVER sat with the laptop in my knee and need to surf the group :-) (OK so it's a real vague link to get remotely On topic!) Whats the best way to get the Laptop to surf the net whilst sat in a field. Wifi? I have a card for home, is this reliant on hijacking a connection? Mobile phone cards? Any pointers It's all a bit double dutch to me. Just want to be able to view the net.. no serious downloads etc. Any recommendations to the most efficent providers (cost / availability) Also use on the continent would be a distinct advantage. Lee D  Signaturewww.lrproject.com Workshop photos from Landrover repairs & other such tinkerings. Home of Percy the Jag powered Landrover >Mobile phone cards? Any pointers It's all a bit double dutch to me. Just >want to be able to view the net.. no serious downloads etc. Any >recommendations to the most efficent providers (cost / availability) I use a Vodafone data card. The card is about 100 quid now, and ya stick ya SIM init, init... :-) Not too bad if you can live with a 57.600 connection speed. Fine for pulling up web pages, multimap etc and doing odd little bits of email. I found it a PITA trying to VPN into the office whilst at Peterborough, but then again, I was looking at a huge encryption overhead before VNC so I shouldn't really compalin. SignatureSome Land Roveresque (101 biased), links available from: http://links.solis.co.uk/Geek/X4_Land_Rover/ I also have a little Land Rover site biased toward my beloved 101 "Grumble", at: http://www.101fc.net Reading this in 'alt.fan.landrover'? Did you know there's a group FAQ: http://www.aflfaq.dyndns.info > >Mobile phone cards? Any pointers It's all a bit double dutch to me. Just > >want to be able to view the net.. no serious downloads etc. Any [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Peterborough, but then again, I was looking at a huge encryption > overhead before VNC so I shouldn't really compalin. How about a vodafone 3G card? we've had one on test, shame that vodafone don't seem to support VPN-1 properly at the moment - or is it just our connection that doesn't support it properly? Si Hi Lee, I use a simple bluetooth dongle to connect using bluetooth mobile. OK for email, newsgroups etc but not for shifting loadsa data. Regards, Roy. > > >Mobile phone cards? Any pointers It's all a bit double dutch to me. Just > > >want to be able to view the net.. no serious downloads etc. Any [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Si >How about a vodafone 3G card? we've had one on test, shame that vodafone >don't seem to support VPN-1 properly at the moment - or is it just our >connection that doesn't support it properly? > >Si I've got one and it works OK, although 3G coverage is pretty sparse. When I get a good connection the 3G is very impressive, but about 30% of the time I seem to get a 3G connection which is no better than the GPRS one. Mine is just a straightforward internet connection and it works over our corporate VPN without any hassles (though it is impractically slow at 57kbps). It is also not cheap to run... SignatureTim Hobbs '58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig" '77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt" '03 Volvo V70 My Landies? http://www.seriesii.co.uk Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com Tony Luckwill web archive at http://www.luckwill.com |
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