<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Matthew King <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew.king@monnsta.net" target="_blank">matthew.king@monnsta.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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While out, the house's connection to the internet breaks for whatever<br>
reason. Hoping it isn't the router itself, I pull out my mobile phone,<br>
dial my modem's number and ... hear screeching because I don't have a<br>
modem on this end.<br>
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Is there software available which can use the mobile network to send<br>
modem traffic? Is the codec even capable of it?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>GSM sends the serial data over the mobile network and the telco has something like a modem bank that turns it back into screeching before routing it over the PSTN. Yes it's still supported. Yes you can make calls to arbitrary numbers - landline and other mobiles. It's limited to 9600bps. It's usually just a case of doing ATD<number> instead of ATD*99# to get GPRS/3g.<br>
<br>You may be able to do what you want by installing minicom (or some other terminal emulator) on a root'ed android handset.. surprisingly after a bit of googling I haven't found anyone who's done this on android which is probably because noone does this sort of thing these days...<br>
<br>Maybe you'd have better luck with older smartphones such as the nokia communicator;<br><br><a href="http://www.soft32.com/download_165747.html">http://www.soft32.com/download_165747.html</a><br><br>It might make more sense to do it the other way round and install a PAYG 3g internet stick on your server. You can also get static IP sim cards from specialist providers like these guys;<br>
<br><a href="http://www.scancom.co.uk/section.php/1284/1/fixed_ip_sims___data_sims">http://www.scancom.co.uk/section.php/1284/1/fixed_ip_sims___data_sims</a><br><br>but probably not cost effectively. Three (<a href="http://three.co.uk">three.co.uk</a>) offers public dynamic IPs which when combined with dynamic dns could also work fine, or you could setup a vpn to somewhere.<br>
<br>That way you can just ssh in from anywhere including your mobile phone using a regular ssh client and at faster speeds even when your main internet connection is down.<br><br>Rob.<br>