I thought SprintPCS let you use their phone as a modem
(if you had paid the $10 a month extra for web enabling)
then you could use your laptop and dial-up anything
(with a 14.4kbps modem) be it your HP3000 support link,
or your regular internet provider.
The minutes just come off your regular minutes, and most
Sprint users have lots of weekend and evening minutes.
Note sure if Laughlin is on the Sprint PCS network though.
Anyone out there use this to access their HP3000?
I was wondering about it for remote support, since
I wouldn't need to find a land-line, nor use
up long distance on a friends home phone line, or try
and find a working motel line, etc.
Now 9600-14,400 is not real speedy for internet access,
but is all the HP support links will do anyway, and thus
probably good enough for most support problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Sieler [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 2:44 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Wireless access to HP3000
Wirt writes:
> I may suffer from a total lack of imagination, but I have yet to see the
> value in having a tiny display on a cell phone be an interface to the web
or
> to a host computer.
I could have used it this weekend...I was in Laughlin, NV, trying to
remember the phone # and address of my sister, 70 miles away in Lake Havasu,
AZ. I knew the info was accessible to me over the web. If I'd had
some brands/implementations/plans of web enabled cell phones, I could
have retrieved her address over the web with my phone. Since I had
Sprint's PCS, I couldn't. (It can only access WAP pages...unlike some
sevices that can access any HTML pages.) (Instead, since AT&T Worldnet
doesn't know Laughlin exists, I had to make a $10 long distance call with
a laptop to get the info.)
(Why Laughlin? That's the closest airport you can get to with a
commericial jet :)
Stan Sieler [log in to unmask]
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