[Gllug] Net access everywhere

[Xander D Harkness]

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 12:07, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience of portable net access? What I'm
> thinking of is a palmtop type device with some kind of GPRS connectivity. 
> The basic premise being an ability to do support should I get called
> while I'm not at home with access to my DSL line. All I need is a semi
> usable keybaord, and an ssh client.
> 
> Have those of you with an iPAQ or Zaurus been able to do anything like
> this? Are there any pros and cons to partiuclar hardware? Any pitfalls
> I should be looking out for?
I have been doing just this with my zaurus and Nokia 8210 over infrared.

It works very well.  The imap mail client on the zaurus is not up to
speed so I use an exim filter to filter mail to a zaurus account -
personals and work email <300k.

ssh works very well on the Z and obviously when I am on a remote box
there is little I am unable to do.  The extra benefit of a tool like the
zaurus is getting a flash ethernet card too which means I can borrow
other people network connectivity if I am in an office.  I realise that
this can be done with an IPAQ - but then you are moving into PC card
territory, extra batteries etc.

Cheers
Xander


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