Archive for July 12th, 2009
Mobile LAN Trip Report
We are back from our West Virginia rafting trip. Normally that wouldn’t warrant a post on a blog about technology. However, what we did on the way there and the way back makes it relevant. You can read the details of our plan in this post: http://blog.timrettig.com/2009/07/09/another-trip-another-crazy-project/. In short, we connected our van to the Internet, provided minute by minute picture updates to a public website, and setup video conferencing between our vehicles. Here is how it went down:
Mobile Internet Access
We setup a laptop in the van with a Verizon aircard and then used Windows to share that connection via wireless between the users in the van. We also had an AT&T aircard, and a couple of people tethered to their phones. We have been using aircards for years, but not this extensively, not over this terrain, and not as a mobile shared connection.
Mission control in the van.
As expected, our only issue was data service. We had service from both Verizon and AT&T and both services had major outages on our trip from Cincinnati, OH to Fayetteville, WV. We knew we would have occasional drops, but we didn’t expect Read the rest of this entry »
