EV-DO Broadband, Live And Direct From The Woods

Like it or not, high speed cellular does have its privileges. Take this article below as one such example. Believe it or not, hardware does play a big part of this little piece of happiness.

Only in the past year has the promise of nationwide wireless broadband Internet service started coming to full fruition. While the nation’s cable and telephone service providers continue to fight for control of the “last mile” of cable leading into customers’ households, in order to pump multimedia content in high-definition at furious speeds, the wireless carriers may find themselves holding a trump card, literally: a PC card that embeds a high-speed cellular connectivity device for EV-DO networks, that can receive data from any point within cellular transmitter range at speeds which many consider equivalent to broadband.

All of which led us to ask, “But how well does it work in the woods?” Could one, forseeably, make arrangements to camp out for a week or so in the deep wilderness, while maintaining contact with his work colleagues without wires, but with something approaching a broadband connection? The answer is far less complicated in 2006 than it was in 2005…. Source: TH Daily

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