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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!willis1.cis.uab.edu!hyatt
- From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
- Subject: Re: how portable can we get?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.165107.2239@cis.uab.edu>
- Keywords: modem, cordless
- Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
- References: <Request> <C0D4wr.n5B@cs.psu.edu> <1993Jan8.212518.7425@mis.mi04.zds.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:51:07 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1993Jan8.212518.7425@mis.mi04.zds.com> mweiss@mis.mi04.zds.com (Mitchell Weiss) writes:
- >In article <C0D4wr.n5B@cs.psu.edu> kalin@math.psu.edu ( kalin ) writes:
- >>Here's what I think is possible.
- >>Not so long ago I saw somewhere (any pointers welcome_
- >>a stupid device which is actually two boxes. One is plugged
- >>in the phone wall outlet and the other has the batteries and
- >>you drag it around in the house or the yard and plug a general
- >>household phone in it. Now your phone is cordless - kind of.
- >>
- >>I have a strong feeling that this can be done to laptops with
- >>internal modems - so no more 30 ft of phone wires in the house,
- >>and a wife complaining about a tipped floor lamp.....
- >>
- >>Any idea who makes those phone "RABBITS" ?
- >>
- >
- >I know, for example, that Proxima was showing a wireless Ethernet
- >lan PCMCIA adapter at COMDEX recently. You would need a laptop
- >with a PCMCIA adapter, and a desktop with a standard Ethernet
- >adapter. Then, you could use software such as Windows for Workgroups,
- >LANTASTIC, or some other peer-to-peer network to give you this
- >functionality. Then put a modem in the desktop near the phone line.
- >
- >
- >The Proxima lan is not yet for sale. It was in Beta.
- >
- >
-
- I have seen several "wireless" modems...... They use a RF link to connect
- two modems.... the notebook is quite normal looking except for a 2" loaded
- antenna that is attached to the side where the modem is. I saw one demoed
- on a Compaq lite 25 and it worked well. To make it portable in your house,
- you would need two RF modems, one for the machine you want to move around
- and another close to your phone. You will also need a third modem to
- conect to your phone (getting expensive, now.) You install one RF
- modem in your notebook, and null-modem connect the other to the third
- regular modem connected to your phone line. I saw it demoed like this
- and it worked well. I also saw it used to allow a notebook to move around
- a doctor's office (clinic) while connected to a "file server PC" in the
- building.
-
- Bob Hyatt
-
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- !Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences !
- !hyatt@cis.uab.edu University of Alabama at Birmingham !
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