 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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Saint Louis, MO
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Re: ha My power went out a few days ago when I was planning on working from home. My job is entirely web-centric. I have a laptop, but losing power meant losing my dsl connection. So I tethered my laptop to my G1 (VERY easy) and simply used the EDGE network, and I must say that it was more than sufficient for me to get my work done. Tethering to my TMO phone on EDGE saved my ass.
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 N3OGHCertified GLG-20Premium
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Philly burbs
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| FYI it might be a good idea to pick up a fairly robust UPS for just such a situation. I keep my DSL modem and wireless router behind a UPS and it rand for hours during our last power outage.
Might not be a bad idea, depending on how often your power goes out. I bought all of it when I was using VoIP to keep my voice communications up during outages. I'm back on POTS now, but I still have the equipment.
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 ThrowDemsOutIf you can't convince 'em, confuse 'emPremium
join:2002-03-03
Mullica Hill, NJ
kudos:4 | said by N3OGH:FYI it might be a good idea to pick up a fairly robust UPS for just such a situation. I keep my DSL modem and wireless router behind a UPS and it rand for hours during our last power outage. Might not be a bad idea, depending on how often your power goes out. I bought all of it when I was using VoIP to keep my voice communications up during outages. I'm back on POTS now, but I still have the equipment. Good idea. I keep my cable modem & wireless router behind an UPS and that can let me use my laptop for about 3 or 4 hrs with power down.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by ThrowDemsOut:Good idea. I keep my cable modem & wireless router behind an UPS and that can let me use my laptop for about 3 or 4 hrs with power down. Not when the cable HFC power injectors' batteries last 0-10 minutes since they are 2 decades old, or were stolen to be used in cars and motorcycles. |
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 ropeguruPremium
join:2001-01-25
Grafton, WV | said by patcat88:said by ThrowDemsOut:Good idea. I keep my cable modem & wireless router behind an UPS and that can let me use my laptop for about 3 or 4 hrs with power down. Not when the cable HFC power injectors' batteries last 0-10 minutes since they are 2 decades old, or were stolen to be used in cars and motorcycles. Maybe in your area but not mine... |
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ThrowDemsOutIf you can't convince 'em, confuse 'emPremium
join:2002-03-03
Mullica Hill, NJ
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said by patcat88:said by ThrowDemsOut:Good idea. I keep my cable modem & wireless router behind an UPS and that can let me use my laptop for about 3 or 4 hrs with power down. Not when the cable HFC power injectors' batteries last 0-10 minutes since they are 2 decades old, or were stolen to be used in cars and motorcycles. During power outages, the cable infrastructure in my area continued to work.
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tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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Saint Louis, MO
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said by N3OGH:FYI it might be a good idea to pick up a fairly robust UPS for just such a situation. I keep my DSL modem and wireless router behind a UPS and it rand for hours during our last power outage. Might not be a bad idea, depending on how often your power goes out. I bought all of it when I was using VoIP to keep my voice communications up during outages. I'm back on POTS now, but I still have the equipment. I've never lived in a town where power outages happen on sunny days with no notice or reason. I may just have to invest in a UPS =\
said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:said by ninjatutle:So much for the android being the savior.. We both know it was only a matter of time. Any service managed by a group of people who believe their sole purpose in life is to line their pockets with your money is bound to be a few "bumps". Yet another win for Windows Mobile, no kill switch, and completely customizable. What else do you need? Are you even reading?
There's no kill switch on tethering apps. They're not killing the apps. They're just removing them from the market for violating the TOS. You can install them without the market very easily. Again, this aint the iPhone. You don't need to have root to install apps. You don't need anything special. I have the tethering app sitting on my phone right now. Essentially, this is NO DIFFERENT than installing an app on your winmo phone. You get the executable and install. Period.
Is that clear enough?
I mean I am all for a open source phone OS, but that is all it should be - if there is money to be made (such as through a "market place") you bet your bottom dollar that the honest customer will be the one to get hurt. We need a third party market place that isn't run by anyone with "interests" with the (I)SP or OS developer for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and the G1... Again, this aint the iPhone. You don't NEED a marketplace for the G1 to install apps. Find the executable (apk) and install. JUST. LIKE. WINMO.
Just like there are websites like getjar for the java files for dumbphones/featurephones, Android has a number of sites like »www.androidfreeware.org/ that have the apks available for download.
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 ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
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Putnam, CT
kudos:4 | Have you ever lived in Florida? I used to have power outages on sunny days all the time when the DOT would dig first, look for obstacles second. |
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