Comments on: I now have the power to bestow and remove the gift of mobile Internet. http://www.tow.com/2009/01/14/i-now-have-the-power-to-bestow-and-remove-the-gift-of-mobile-internet/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Verizon MiFi Disconnects Constantly in WiFi Mode | tow.com http://www.tow.com/2009/01/14/i-now-have-the-power-to-bestow-and-remove-the-gift-of-mobile-internet/#comment-198539 Verizon MiFi Disconnects Constantly in WiFi Mode | tow.com Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:15:47 +0000 http://www.tow.com/?p=1553#comment-198539 [...] love the idea of the Verizon MiFi — which I bought several months ago to replace the mobile Internet solution I cobbled together a year ago — but it’s very annoying to use in [...] [...] love the idea of the Verizon MiFi — which I bought several months ago to replace the mobile Internet solution I cobbled together a year ago — but it’s very annoying to use in [...]

]]> By: Ziv http://www.tow.com/2009/01/14/i-now-have-the-power-to-bestow-and-remove-the-gift-of-mobile-internet/#comment-195054 Ziv Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:25:54 +0000 http://www.tow.com/?p=1553#comment-195054 Matt, You're absolutely right. If you shoot massive images, you're not going to get very far in your "real-time" uploads. But these are several things to note: * I don't know of many cameras that shoot 10MB Jog’s. Sorry. My D300 shoots 4, maybe 5MB images if I crank the resolution to the highest, and the JPG quality to the best quality. * If I'm shooting in real-time, and I want people to see my images, I crank the size way down and the resolution way-down. I know that I'm not going to print 12*18 prints from these photos, and immediacy is more important to me, than shooting 12MP images. So I shoot 2MP images at a lower JPG quality which are still phenomenal in quality. * There are simple calculations that you could do to figure out how quickly your images will go up, based on the given connection speed. Sometimes, you get lucky, and EVDO rev A upload speeds can get to 700kbps. Other times, you get a bit less lucky, with slower upload speeds. It all depends on how many people are sharing the EVDO rev A connection @ the tower, how far are you from the tower, etc... Good luck -- Ziv. Matt,

You’re absolutely right. If you shoot massive images, you’re not going to get very far in your “real-time” uploads. But these are several things to note:

* I don’t know of many cameras that shoot 10MB Jog’s. Sorry. My D300 shoots 4, maybe 5MB images if I crank the resolution to the highest, and the JPG quality to the best quality.

* If I’m shooting in real-time, and I want people to see my images, I crank the size way down and the resolution way-down. I know that I’m not going to print 12*18 prints from these photos, and immediacy is more important to me, than shooting 12MP images. So I shoot 2MP images at a lower JPG quality which are still phenomenal in quality.

* There are simple calculations that you could do to figure out how quickly your images will go up, based on the given connection speed. Sometimes, you get lucky, and EVDO rev A upload speeds can get to 700kbps. Other times, you get a bit less lucky, with slower upload speeds. It all depends on how many people are sharing the EVDO rev A connection @ the tower, how far are you from the tower, etc…

Good luck –

Ziv.

]]> By: Matt http://www.tow.com/2009/01/14/i-now-have-the-power-to-bestow-and-remove-the-gift-of-mobile-internet/#comment-195015 Matt Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:18:26 +0000 http://www.tow.com/?p=1553#comment-195015 I had often thought of something like this as well - however, I wondered how long it would take to upload the images. 10MB jpgs that you can take 100 in a few minutes without trying - would take forever to upload over the mobile broad band. I had often thought of something like this as well – however, I wondered how long it would take to upload the images. 10MB jpgs that you can take 100 in a few minutes without trying – would take forever to upload over the mobile broad band.

]]> By: Myself http://www.tow.com/2009/01/14/i-now-have-the-power-to-bestow-and-remove-the-gift-of-mobile-internet/#comment-194889 Myself Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:25:16 +0000 http://www.tow.com/?p=1553#comment-194889 Did you know that Metricom and Linksys also jointly released a router with a PCMCIA slot, which would accept a Merlin for Ricochet modem and share the Ricochet connection with a LAN? Telling of its time, it didn't even have a wifi radio internally, but it was stackable with other Linksys products and was commonly paired with a WAP11. Strap those two together with a short cable between them and a battery on the bottom, and you're all set! As for the present: I've been using a laptop to share my EVDO over a local wifi cloud. Consider installing Gallery on the laptop and letting the Eye-Fi upload into the Gallery, which will generate thumbnails and stuff. Then let your editor hit the gallery (most EVDO service plans do accept incoming connections, but you might have to run httpd on a port other than 80) from remote, preferably through a caching proxy. (Better yet, run the caching proxy in colocation and hand that out as the public address for your traveling gallery.) So each thumbnail is only pulled over the EVDO once and cached, and when your editor or someone else clicks through for a medium-res pic, it again gets served over the EVDO and cached. By default the medium and high res images sit on your laptop in the Gallery and never even move across the link until someone requests them. Then when you get home, plug in and rsync the whole mess, to save the high res images away from your laptop. If you've got a USB EVDO modem, you don't even need a laptop with a CardBus or ExpressCard slot, which means the little micro laptops like the EEE would work for this. The only caveat is that you need a wifi card that can be put into hostAP mode, because the (braindead!) Eye-Fi can't work with AdHoc networks. Did you know that Metricom and Linksys also jointly released a router with a PCMCIA slot, which would accept a Merlin for Ricochet modem and share the Ricochet connection with a LAN? Telling of its time, it didn’t even have a wifi radio internally, but it was stackable with other Linksys products and was commonly paired with a WAP11. Strap those two together with a short cable between them and a battery on the bottom, and you’re all set!

As for the present: I’ve been using a laptop to share my EVDO over a local wifi cloud. Consider installing Gallery on the laptop and letting the Eye-Fi upload into the Gallery, which will generate thumbnails and stuff. Then let your editor hit the gallery (most EVDO service plans do accept incoming connections, but you might have to run httpd on a port other than 80) from remote, preferably through a caching proxy. (Better yet, run the caching proxy in colocation and hand that out as the public address for your traveling gallery.) So each thumbnail is only pulled over the EVDO once and cached, and when your editor or someone else clicks through for a medium-res pic, it again gets served over the EVDO and cached. By default the medium and high res images sit on your laptop in the Gallery and never even move across the link until someone requests them.

Then when you get home, plug in and rsync the whole mess, to save the high res images away from your laptop.

If you’ve got a USB EVDO modem, you don’t even need a laptop with a CardBus or ExpressCard slot, which means the little micro laptops like the EEE would work for this. The only caveat is that you need a wifi card that can be put into hostAP mode, because the (braindead!) Eye-Fi can’t work with AdHoc networks.

]]> By: Nate Harris http://www.tow.com/2009/01/14/i-now-have-the-power-to-bestow-and-remove-the-gift-of-mobile-internet/#comment-194887 Nate Harris Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:53:35 +0000 http://www.tow.com/?p=1553#comment-194887 I really enjoyed reading this article, especially the blast-from-the-past modems you were talking about. I get my wireless access from a company in my home city of Portland called Clear wireless internet (www.clear.com). They have city wide wireless that’s affordable, and you can buy a day pass for $10, and they’re moving into other cities soon (Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Las Vegas). I see a lot of major cities moving towards city-wide wifi access, which I think is great. Even my sister in Vermont says that they’re talking about state wide access! I really enjoyed reading this article, especially the blast-from-the-past modems you were talking about. I get my wireless access from a company in my home city of Portland called Clear wireless internet (www.clear.com). They have city wide wireless that’s affordable, and you can buy a day pass for $10, and they’re moving into other cities soon (Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Las Vegas). I see a lot of major cities moving towards city-wide wifi access, which I think is great. Even my sister in Vermont says that they’re talking about state wide access!

]]> By: Adam Tow http://www.tow.com/2009/01/14/i-now-have-the-power-to-bestow-and-remove-the-gift-of-mobile-internet/#comment-194886 Adam Tow Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:13:42 +0000 http://www.tow.com/?p=1553#comment-194886 Right now, Comcast is experiencing a cable Internet disruption. Guess what just came to the rescue? Right now, Comcast is experiencing a cable Internet disruption. Guess what just came to the rescue?

]]> By: wilco http://www.tow.com/2009/01/14/i-now-have-the-power-to-bestow-and-remove-the-gift-of-mobile-internet/#comment-194882 wilco Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:21:23 +0000 http://www.tow.com/?p=1553#comment-194882 sounds like a pretty cool solution. i've always wanted internet everywhere, but haven't really needed it yet. this sounds like a pretty good reason to make the investment, i'm sure it will be invaluable as you move around the country! sounds like a pretty cool solution. i’ve always wanted internet everywhere, but haven’t really needed it yet. this sounds like a pretty good reason to make the investment, i’m sure it will be invaluable as you move around the country!

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