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"Pogo is a new hand-held wireless device
that
delivers 3G-like services on existing GSM and GPRS networks."
As
posted earlier, I've just got one and its a damned cool piece of
kit
However, its £7.99 a month for web access, 10p a minute call up
and not 'always on'.
but
you ARE billed by the second, not the full minute,
and
it drops out after 15 seconds of non-use
so
you're not paying over the top for time you're not using it, and if you're
only
accessing once
in a
while that ain't bad.
It
dials up VERY quickly and the pages refresh quickly too. Not as fast as
ISDN but
not far off.
If
your access to your HA is through a web interface, this could be a
stop gap
solution.
Scott Crowther
Intamac Systems Ltd
t: +44 (0)1604 679262
e. scrowther@xxxxxxx
w.
www.intamac.com
Firstly, there
are no health risks associated with mobile transmission
towers.
You could add
GPRS capability to your HA server right now. Orange, mmO2 and Vodafone all
offer an always-on connection via a mobile handset where you only pay for
the
data you transfer. However, it is SO expensive. Even on the cheapest Orange
GPRS plan, 100 MB of data will cost you £100 per month. Even then, data
rates
are only around 40 kbps.
It will be at
least 5 years before you can have an ADSL type connection, via a wireless
device for a reasonable price.
G
In the last year or so we've had a couple of
"Cell" aerials built within a mile of our house. Close enough to give
great coverage from our home, and far enough away not to be a health worry
or eyesore. Anyway...as I drove past
them this morning I started thinking about my lack of ADSL (and poor
propects for it any time this century!).
What I need is an "always on" connection so I
can control the house through the web interface, it doesn't need to be
highspeed as I have ADSL to my desk in work
and can download whatever I need from there.
How likely is it that in the (near) future I
could add some sort of GPRS or 3G mobile module to my HA server to allow
this? Obviuosly I'd need some sort of tarrif that took advantage of
the always on aspects of these services without a crippling
subsription?
Mark (clutching at wireless straws)
McC.
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