![]() ![]() Do I understand youĬorrectly that if we connect up with this service then AT&T becomes our ![]() Sounds like something a lot of us would be In Reply to: Wireless Internet, Cheap (relatively), nationwide posted by Joe Solbrig on Januat 15:32:17 PST: Posted by Ed Carroll on Januat 18:22:25 PST: ![]() Here’s an excerpt I just found on my computer (which prompted this post) of a Bulletin Board System post I found on the “Bus Conversion News Board” from January 1999 which makes it clear that even nearly two years later it was still a challenge to get online from the road: Re: Wireless Internet, Cheap (relatively), nationwide And the highest speed I ever got was 1200 baud despite the advertised 2400 maximum (pretty sure I’m remembering that right) – and that was parked directly under one of the few digital towers in the country □ And a booster that had to be connected to the car to get enough power to push the signal. I had to buy a special Nokia phone that was analog but also supported digital cellular connection. Digital cell service was just starting to roll out and I think AT&T had 12 towers in big cities. Oh, but WiFi is so passé now in the 2020s, we have 5G digital wireless on the cellular network! □ Oh the dream of digital transmission on the cellular network was alive in 1997, but it was mostly just that a dream. But a bit of research will show you that while WiFi – which we all take for granted now – had been invented some 10 years earlier Lucent hadn’t been able to get anyone to adopt it and it wasn’t actually available on a consumer computer until Apple launched the iBook at NY MacWorld in 1999. Some may remember stories of the bus conversion of a 1980s transit bus (Gillig Phantom, if you’re into that sort of thing) I did (with some help) and how our family (Geek was only a year old! my how time flies…) lived in it for about 8 months traveling about 25,000 miles around the continental United States.ĭuring this period Dad worked remotely for a client programming a Mac application. ![]()
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