Can anyone tell me if you can connect to the internet without a phone line by using the following idea ?
Get a bluetooth mobile-phone and a bluetooth p.c. modem (if there is such a thing), use the bluetooth to link the mobile and modem together and then simply use the combination of bluetooth mobile and modem to dial up the normal ISP number.
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th March 2006 at 11:29
Theres always the Vodafone GPRS 3g card. 😉
By: KOBRAFORCES - 26th March 2006 at 03:28
well thats called wirless internet see live in Australia and you can get wirless adsl2+ that downloads up to 24mb per second.
By: frankvw - 24th March 2006 at 19:19
I thought so 😉
But, if you urgently need e-mail while travelling, that is helpful.
By: andrewman - 23rd March 2006 at 10:24
Thanks for all the reply’s, looks like I wont be doing this as the speed and cost make it unworkable.
By: ollieholmes - 23rd March 2006 at 01:48
Theres something like this over the entire isle of Man but i cant remember the exact details.
By: Arthur - 23rd March 2006 at 00:04
I think Arthur was being sarcastic…last time I checked I didn’t think you could get a workable data transfer rate over a natural gas line. The signal keeps fluctuating 😀
Unfortunately, the site is dead, but i worked with a few other people for an advertising-website for Internet Through Gas. Somehow, none of the replies we got was a serious one.
By: SOC - 22nd March 2006 at 07:36
Something very similar was proposed by the main electricity provider in the North West of England quite a few years ago.
Nothing came of it.
I think Arthur was being sarcastic…last time I checked I didn’t think you could get a workable data transfer rate over a natural gas line. The signal keeps fluctuating 😀
By: Grey Area - 22nd March 2006 at 07:29
They came up with this one in Amsterdam, right? :diablo:
Something very similar was proposed by the main electricity provider in the North West of England quite a few years ago.
Nothing came of it.
By: SOC - 22nd March 2006 at 02:38
You can get an internet-link via your gas connection here in the Netherlands. A modem hooks up your computer to your gas tap, and there you go. You can even cook and be on-line at the same time!
Let me guess. They came up with this one in Amsterdam, right? :diablo:
By: Arthur - 22nd March 2006 at 02:33
You can get an internet-link via your gas connection here in the Netherlands. A modem hooks up your computer to your gas tap, and there you go. You can even cook and be on-line at the same time!
By: frankvw - 21st March 2006 at 21:25
Yes, it is possible. You also have dedicated GPRS cards (PCMCIA) to put into a laptop (which is another solution)
Note that such technologies are SLOW, and expensive ! (A Cellphone used as modem is 9600bps if I remember correctly, opposed to the 56kbps a phoneline modem does)
By: Grey Area - 21st March 2006 at 18:05
The people I work for use this sort of set-up for out-of-office Internet and remote network access quite a lot.
By: tenthije - 21st March 2006 at 17:29
Don’t know if it is available in the UK, but in NL Vodafone was advertising that setup.
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