Techs & Trends
"Data-capable"
https://www.phonescoop.com/glossary/term.php?fid=25 »
This means that the phone can be used like a modem to connect a separate computer to the Internet or other system.
Is it actually possible to use a cell phone for regular ISP service?
One reason I've avoided cell phones so long is that I figured I needed to keep my land line for Internet service.
Let me guess - if you do use a cell phone to provide some sort of Internet service, you've got to install special (probably Windows-only) software onto the device you want to give Internet access to.
There's probably no way to hook up a plain old router to the phone's Internet service and then be able to...
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With VZW's EVDO which is already in 13 markets and expanding weekly such that there will be nationwide coverage by end of 2005, assuming you live near a base station, you can expect some p...
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If you had a modem that connected to a PC via a USB port, could you connect a wireless router to that?
This would be the chain of devices, and this represents a connection "":
Internet modem router(wireless or not) PC
Now, let's get more specific on what type of connection:
Internet modem router(wireless or not) PC
Here, I'm wondering if a "data-capable" cell phone could work as the "modem".
Note this means that the cell phone would never directly connect to the PC. It would connect directly to a hardware router that isn't going to take any kind of drivers. It's going to expect some sort of Ethernet connection, be it thr...
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Seems like that'd be a really wierd gadget for some reason, but I can't think of any reason why it couldn't exist, other than there are usually settings involved with an Ethernet device (speed, duplex, flow control) that you'd need to be able to adjust somehow.
I think some cell phones do Wi-Fi (802.11b(or a or g)).
If your client PCs also had Wi-Fi network cards, I wonder if you could run some sort of software NAT router on the cell phone so that it shared its inet connection with them?