Derrick
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There are remote spots in our beautiful country where the Internet can be illusive and if you are lucky to have it, it can be mind numbingly slow. I leave the city for the bush at least once a year to Mabalingwe Nature Reserve just outside Bela-Bela in the Limpopo province to get away from city life. One thing I cannot however easily do is sever my connection to the web. Even if it is a trickle of a connection, connectivity for me is required. I require it for business, which makes it essential and for pleasure.
This year I decided to bring an outdoor industrial cellular router with me.
I set the following goals for myself:
Get fast 3G or better connectivity at the chalet
Share the connection via Wi-Fi to enable me to walk around with the laptop on the property
The 3G router worked out of the box. Getting the SIM card to work with all the RICA requirements was the biggest hassle. I am using a Poynting HSPA-A0001 outdoor router better known as an ePoynt. Gone is the slow GPRS connection. I now sit with a 1.5 Mbps connection in the bush! As with all travels however there is always something left behind at home and as it happens I forgot the power adapter for the Wi-Fi access point.
Not to worry. I put my Net book on Wi-Fi hotspot duty. I bridged the cellular router connection to the Net book’s Wi-Fi connection and set up an ad-hoc network between my Net book and my Notebook. Problem solved, with security and all. Mobile devices that don’t support ad-hoc are however unable to enjoy the benefit of the faster network like for instance a Blackberry phone but the notebook works and that is all that counts. I am writing this blog post using this set up.
This year I decided to bring an outdoor industrial cellular router with me.
I set the following goals for myself:
Get fast 3G or better connectivity at the chalet
Share the connection via Wi-Fi to enable me to walk around with the laptop on the property
The 3G router worked out of the box. Getting the SIM card to work with all the RICA requirements was the biggest hassle. I am using a Poynting HSPA-A0001 outdoor router better known as an ePoynt. Gone is the slow GPRS connection. I now sit with a 1.5 Mbps connection in the bush! As with all travels however there is always something left behind at home and as it happens I forgot the power adapter for the Wi-Fi access point.
Not to worry. I put my Net book on Wi-Fi hotspot duty. I bridged the cellular router connection to the Net book’s Wi-Fi connection and set up an ad-hoc network between my Net book and my Notebook. Problem solved, with security and all. Mobile devices that don’t support ad-hoc are however unable to enjoy the benefit of the faster network like for instance a Blackberry phone but the notebook works and that is all that counts. I am writing this blog post using this set up.