WAY OT: Laptop internet connection

Sep 26, 2004 4 Replies

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Lee_D 22 years ago

So when I'm out in my LANDROVER sat with the laptop in my knee and need to surf the group :-) (OK so it's a real vague link to get remotely On topic!)

Whats the best way to get the Laptop to surf the net whilst sat in a field.

Wifi? I have a card for home, is this reliant on hijacking a connection?

Mobile phone cards? Any pointers It's all a bit double dutch to me. Just want to be able to view the net.. no serious downloads etc. Any recommendations to the most efficent providers (cost / availability)

Also use on the continent would be a distinct advantage.

Lee D

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Mother 22 years ago

I use a Vodafone data card. The card is about 100 quid now, and ya stick ya SIM init, init... :-)

Not too bad if you can live with a 57.600 connection speed. Fine for pulling up web pages, multimap etc and doing odd little bits of email. I found it a PITA trying to VPN into the office whilst at Peterborough, but then again, I was looking at a huge encryption overhead before VNC so I shouldn't really compalin.

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Si K 22 years ago

How about a vodafone 3G card? we've had one on test, shame that vodafone don't seem to support VPN-1 properly at the moment - or is it just our connection that doesn't support it properly?

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LR90 22 years ago

Hi Lee, I use a simple bluetooth dongle to connect using bluetooth mobile. OK for email, newsgroups etc but not for shifting loadsa data.

Regards, Roy.

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Tim Hobbs 22 years ago

I've got one and it works OK, although 3G coverage is pretty sparse. When I get a good connection the 3G is very impressive, but about 30% of the time I seem to get a 3G connection which is no better than the GPRS one.

Mine is just a straightforward internet connection and it works over our corporate VPN without any hassles (though it is impractically slow at 57kbps).

It is also not cheap to run...

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