Traffic updates using GPRS to change course

Mazda6PC · 01-31-2004, 01:38 AM

I have an idea and I'm new to the hobby and forum. There has to be a way to have GPRS wireless internet update GPS course in realtime. I always get stuck in traffic and manualy have to replot course in traffic. (I have GPRS on my cell phone and im trying to find a USB powered modem instead of the phones IR. There might be a PCMCIA-USB type II card readers, have not found one yet. I dont have a PCI slot for a PCMCIA adapter.) The only way I can think of making this happen is to find a GPS program that would connect to internet and include rush-hour traffic in the fastest or shortest course.

doig · 01-31-2004, 02:23 AM

go bluetooth for the connection if you can....

Mazda6PC · 01-31-2004, 02:55 AM

Thanks for the idea but I will have to change phones. The s105 is the coolest phone I have ever owned and don't want to change it. I can buy a cheep phone w/ bluetooth and turn it into a car phone also and have GPRS. The problem is that I want a allways on connection. When the computer boots the internet will be up also!

Falken · 01-31-2004, 08:55 AM

Slightly off topic but has anyone actually managed to get Bluetooth, GPRS and Windows XP running? I'm using T-Mobile with a Sony T68i and a Mitsumi bluetooth adapter without success. Any help or pointers to help would be greatly appreciated.

Rami · 02-01-2004, 10:12 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Falken

Slightly off topic but has anyone actually managed to get Bluetooth, GPRS and Windows XP running? I'm using T-Mobile with a Sony T68i and a Mitsumi bluetooth adapter without success. Any help or pointers to help would be greatly appreciated.

i have a friend with the same phone, he has it working with an ibm laptop (built in bluetooth) txx model.

i'll find out more from him

Rami · 02-01-2004, 10:16 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Mazda6PC

Thanks for the idea but I will have to change phones. The s105 is the coolest phone I have ever owned and don't want to change it. I can buy a cheep phone w/ bluetooth and turn it into a car phone also and have GPRS. The problem is that I want a allways on connection. When the computer boots the internet will be up also!

i use my sprint phone with mine and its an always on connection (i have it start the connection software at startup)

i use mappoint and it has an update for traffic function.

Falken · 02-01-2004, 10:29 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Rami

i have a friend with the same phone, he has it working with an ibm laptop (built in bluetooth) txx model.

i'll find out more from him

Many thanks. I'd really like to get this working.

Mazda6PC · 02-06-2004, 10:15 PM

I guess I will need Mappoint. I knew there was another gps program out there that would work. I will give it a try!

RX7FDTT · 02-09-2004, 01:18 PM

I used Routis over the weekend... and I was driving on I405 in southern california, (notorios for traffic)(nicknamed will be there 4 'o 5 hours) and as a local I knew the alternate roads and their traffic, and all I had to tell routis is to avoid the 405, and it replotted quite efficiently... more or less how I'd drive... I just knew which lights were quicker and less congested... not something I'd expect from routis...

ukchris · 02-09-2004, 02:34 PM

Am I missing something, can't see in in MapPoint 2004...