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Re: an easier way? (request for advice)

Depending on where you live, you may be able to use a "Ricochet" modem.
It's a flat fee.  Look at www.ricochet.net for more details.  Other
options include a rx/tx radio that you can buy for close-by communication.
Or, you can get a HAM radio license and use packet radio.

Mark

atomic@sover.net wrote:
: hello, i am a college student with a very specific problem.  i am in the
: process  of creating a plan of study for my next semester, and am researching
: the plausibility of a study on the effects of wearable computing on a persons
: life, relationships, and psyche.  in this study i would build a wearable
: computer, and with it stay connected to the internet, and my college at all
: waking hours (the college i attend is online). the difficulty which i have
: come up against is that due to my limited income as a student i cannot afford
: to connect using cellular service for that many hours per day (16).  therefor
: i have come to the conclusion that the only other form of connection would be
: to use radio signals sent in between a base and the wearable, with the base
: being connected to a phone line.  this is possible using four radios, 1
: transmitter at each end and 1 receiver at each end, but due to the amount
: that they would weigh, and their power consumption, it is not a plausible
: solution.  So, my question to you would be whether anyone else has used a
: similar method of connecting wearables, or if anyone knows of a technology
: that allows synchronous reception and transmission of data over the air. 
: many thanks for your patience and help.

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