Pandora (streaming music) + Kyocera KR1 (EVDO router) test

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Originally Posted by Haystack

hmm, why not just throw in a pcmia pci controller card?

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You could but that assumes that you have a PCI slot. With smaller cases that's not always an option.

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Originally Posted by Haystack

hmm, why not just throw in a pcmia pci controller card?

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impossible for me because I use a normal motherboard so no pcmcia slot, and I use a right angle adapter for my AGP video card, so i'm SOL for a PCI card. So it's either serial or this, which is awesome because then I can share it with other users in the car.

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Originally Posted by jcdillin

impossible for me because I use a normal motherboard so no pcmcia slot, and I use a right angle adapter for my AGP video card, so i'm SOL for a PCI card. So it's either serial or this, which is awesome because then I can share it with other users in the car.

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You mean your two other computers in the car along with the other users

:nutz: crazy :nutz:

What about users out of the car?... cus remember that we going to caravan to the national meeting.... Wow! free internet on the rouad :D

Thanatos.

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Originally Posted by antimatter

You mean your two other computers in the car along with the other users

:nutz: crazy :nutz:

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lol, damn skippy

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Originally Posted by thanatos106

What about users out of the car?... cus remember that we going to caravan to the national meeting.... Wow! free internet on the rouad :D

Thanatos.

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Of course, as long as your a few cars away you can have internet as well :D

Cool. I'm liking Pandora, espicially since it doesn't require IE. The router looks neat too.

wtb evdo in college towns!!!

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Originally Posted by jcdillin

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Of course, as long as your a few cars away you can have internet as well :D

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It goes as far as the WiFi will reach. Wifi actually goes pretty far outside, a lot further then it works indoors.

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Originally Posted by tom61

Cool. I'm liking Pandora, espicially since it doesn't require IE. The router looks neat too.

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I did some more tests with it today and whatever Internet concession problems I had yesterday went away. I also tried downloading a large file in the background and still got around 25k/sec while moving.

I love that it works with a USB phone. If you get a PCMCIA card (or a PDA phone), Sprint makes you pay /MB charges (unless you get the really expensive unlimited plan). This is why I have always stuck with a normal phone so I can get unlimited internet for $15/mo over USB. I'm looking at upgrading to the Samsung A900 (aka: Blade) for the EVDO and BlueTooth support.

This is a cool device, but for my CarPC I'd rather just have a tiny BlueTooth USB dongle connect to my phone giving me unlimited EVDO internet for $15/mo (which you have to pay anyway if you want to be able to get the pictures off your camera phone).