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On Fri, 8 Dec 2000  wrote:

> 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

http://web.zencor.org/~sol
599B Yonge Street #280, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4Y-1Z4
legacy ICQ 100478440

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