-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 8 Dec 2000wrote: > How do you connect to the internet? Via Cell phone? Is there any 24 hour > wireless services? How expensive? How Fast? I'm using a GSM phone now (expensive) but wireless ethernet is coming up quick... it's acceptably fast, about that of a wireline dialup. My service provider now doesn't freak out when you ask for data. Before this year they would claim "no sir, you can't get data service" - but you could. :) Long ago before data fones were available I used to get 300-baud connections out of analog fones, hehe... hmm yes the old Oki 9 came in handy back then! :) Very crude but I'll never forget the first steps taken towards connected-mobility... When I dream I see wireless ethernet all over the place! We should hook up all our homes, cars and offices at least, makes total sense. Some might be tempted to work on illegal trancievers with mabye 15 watts to give you metropolitan area coverage...? Here in Canada the G regulates the hell out of everything so people get stuck with expensive consumer services. We need tiny, kick-ass digital trancievers I think. For experimentation of course. :) To be honest I'd like the ability to jack into a selection of networks, perhaps for use when in hostile environments... that is, the units should be able to jack into whatever communications infrastructure is around... All-purpose digital tranciever, jacks for RJ-11, RJ-45, patch cables for connecting to junction boxes, magnetic coils, etc... there ought to be a way to jack into the network even if only primitive means are around like telephones, shortwave radio, etc...? Like an accoustic coupler for use at public telephones, etc. Yep kludgey but I like the concept... Such as, with a scanner in your pocket connected to your processor's mic, and some software like ViaVoice and multimon (killer, decodes POCSAG, DTMF etc!) on Linux, the system could monitor voice communications for key-words. I've so far only done this with one channel but it works! So, you're out on a mission and the police are dispatched to intercept you, the system recognizes the call-signs/key-words and inserts a threat into it's table... naughty types might do the same to cellular calls, etc. To get real good and monitor n frequencies at once seems possible with the right expensive toys. Hmm and a directional frequency counter, so that you can say target a particular cel phone and follow it around... or it could show blinking icons representing police, fire, ambulance...? Related cool stuff can be found at http://www.linradio.com. People are hacking together a lot of really wicked stuff these days in terms of Linux packet radio. The thing is, I just want to be able to put away all those little toys that go into your pockets, and just simplify - into a single tranciever that can cover an array of frequencies... A group of these individuals wearing the stuff should also be able to form a "VPN", even if Bob is on a cel phone, Sue is using wireless ethernet and Kevin has an accoustic coupler on some fortress fone... they should be able to connect to one another across this mini-network transparently and with strong encryption, so that one can send a message to Kevin at 192.168.1.3 via Sue at 192.168.1.2... using some intelligent policy-based routing...? That way, when Sue is blown away or something, the network falls back to auxiliary connections automatically and thus maintains connectivity for the whole force...? And also offer some degree of protection against an adversary which seeks to isolate individual "nodes" in order to take them out...? This turns me on a good deal. Hmm what about globalstar? We'll probably see more stuff like this in the future... the people with serious loot already have most of the toys, such as cruise ships or oil rigs, which usually have full telephony and data switches on them these days, all satellite based, using the connection in the middle you can actually dial into certain rooms or extensions, very cool stuff indeed but way way beyond individual means, they cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to acquire and also huge sums just to operate them. Sol Cognosenti Endelman / ZENCOR tip://sol
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