I am living in a caravan at the renovation site and want to mange my investments over the phone and need access to internet banking. I am interested in setting up wireless broadband using bigponds mobile laptop card. This uses the cdma 1x protocol for speeds of 80 to 100kb/s out of the broadband coverage area. My idea is to connect an engine phone to this conection and use this for my home phone / office phone and save the cost of mobile phone calls.
Engin recommends minimum of 256kb/s. Has anyone tried the above setup. What quaity was the outcome?
The alternative of putting the phone on at each location and setting up dialup access is expensive and not ideal.Hi,
I have done something similar. I have IBurst wireless I think it was 64/256 and I used Skype. However the delays are noticable (like some bad phonecards) and so you need to be patient.I upgraded to 256/512 or 256/1mb I cant remember which and it made no difference.
Im not sure if its the latency in the wireless network, ISP, Skype or the internet.
I would suggest you compare to:
1. Scale down your internet cost to lowest grade (maybe save $25 or so a month)
2. Scale up your mobile phone plan.Cost wise may work out the same and you wont have quality problems.
There are also lots of discount SIM cards which you pretty much throw away and buy another once it runs out that work out cheap also. Just go to your local phonecard re-seller.
Mat
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How far is your Van from a McDodald’s store they had hotspots in a lot of stores and for 50 dollars you can get a wireless usb adaptor that will give you internet to LapTop or PC.
Range is about 80-100 meters or you could buy a stronger booster the mobile bill is what i would find out about.
If you know the niebours have internet you can get what’s a thing that send internet to your Van for little costs this would be the best way. Ask your niebours if they are interested in sharing and offer them half there net bill.
I am going to be setting this up myself for LapTop in coming weeks so I can let you knowe how I went.
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Interested in Joint Venture Reno ProjectsThank you very much for your comments and suggestions.
I move every couple of months when each renovation is finished so the neighbours might be hard to try but a good lateral thinking idea. The current location is faily close to MacDonalds but more like 500m.
I have opened an Engin account on my slow broadband connection (256/64) to see how it works. It is usable but not great. The minimax modem wireless modem might actually be better – it is about 100kb/s both directions. My handset is most of the problem I think. I will upgrade it and try again on my broadband before getting the wireless.
The problem with the wireless is that it is a 2 year contract at about $100 per month so if it doesn’t work for phone then it is very expensive internet access.
I will let you know what I end up with. It might just be mobile and internet cafe.The place to try might be http://www.exploroz.com/Forum/Default.asp there is 4 wheel drivers that set up all sorts of things for travelling.
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Interested in Joint Venture Reno ProjectsI now have to question why you would spend $125/month on Phone and Interweb combined in order to obtain cheap Phone Calls which when you read the fine print aren’t all that cheap or that good, when you have the option of spending $79/month with Vodaphone, Telstra or Optus and getting $500 worth of 60c/minute phone calls on a mobile which you can also use as a modem? OR $149/month with Vodaphone for $1200 worth of 60c/minute phone calls which again can be used as a modem?
Maybe neither of these are entirely an ideal setup, but it does have some merit when compared to the minimal downloads you have access to via the wireless setup plans vs the standard dial up service you could access using your mobile as a modem?
Stuart Milne
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READY Mortgages
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Mob: 0404 056 055I would reconnect a phone in the property each time you begin a new renovation and go with a provider that does not charge you to reconnect.
Then use a 56k dodo.com.au connection capped at 24.90c a month for unlimited downloads.
This is all I have ever used. Unless in net cafe’s or something but the norm for what I use when at home is phone line and dial up.
I organize my main big downloads through a downloads manager program and any big ones download through the night.
Other then that the internet is mainly for reading and 56 is plenty fast enough for that.
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Interested in Joint Venture Reno ProjectsStuart,
Thank’s for your options. I did look at the vodaphone option. $1200 at 60c per minute is 30 hours per month of phone and internet. I would use more than this. All the mobile options I look at are very expensive. I think I will go with the landline conection at each place and maybe the capped plan just for mobile. The problem is just you need to pay landline rental and connection and surfing the net in a house renovation is not ideal. summary. Still not sure what I will eventually doAt the end of the day what ever you chose, you may only be worse off by a couple of hunderd dollars which is small in the big scheme of things. Maybe just go the way you are familiar with and that is reliable so you wont have to focus your future efforts on fixing problems or getting frustrated which is something that takes away from your focus on making money…
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