This is all part of my snowbird fantasy: OK, if you dispense with the satelite idea, and depend on Wifi hot spots, that might not be so bad. Flying J truck stops, KOA campgrounds, many other truck stops, and all airports have Wifi hotspots. Oh, and decent coffeehouses. The list is growing every day, and soon you may be able to get a Wifi conneciton most anywhere you park. I haven't ever tried to use Wifi hotspots. I have been told that they are problematic, because there are a Tower of Babel of different providers, and if you aren't signed up with the right provider, you don't get on the net. Is that the case? Or do you just sign on and surf? -- Lawrence Lile "M. Adam Davis" Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 05/24/2004 12:23 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [PIC:] Microship project 2-way satellite internet is available, but aiming is tricky. Several companies offer this service. Latency is terrible compared to any land based method. You can also buy satellite phones which require little to no aiming, but the data rate is slow (14.4kbps for many). You can also, if you have lots of money, get a T1 satellite connection, but it requires a big dish and the latency is still bad. -Adam llile@SALTONUSA.COM wrote: >Oh Yeah the Winnebiko dude! He is one of my heroes! > > >OK, how the heck do you do a portable internet connection without a land >line? He mentions a satellite uplink - to my knowledge they are only >available with a companion land line. Anybody know about this? How do >RV'ers get an internet connection, short of stopping in a KOA or a truck >stop with a wifi hotspot? > > >-- Lawrence Lile >Senior Project Engineer >Toastmaster, Inc. >Division of Salton, Inc. >573-446-5661 voice >573-446-5676 fax > > > > >Charles Craft >Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list >05/22/2004 02:15 PM >Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list > > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > cc: > Subject: [PIC:] Microship project > > >http://microship.com/microship/index.html > > >I fat fingered an eBay search and actually got a hit on "microship". >(someone elses typo in a listing) > >Decided to do a web search and came up with the site above - which happens >to use Microchip PICs. > > > >Serendipity is pretty cool. :-) > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > >-- >http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! >email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body