Pervasive Internet

You know, the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that mobile satellite should really be more pervasive than it is today. If you live in a city, you tend to assume that you're going to have an Internet connection wherever you go. You could be close to Wifi, or have a 3G connection. Things are a bit different if you have to move to a more rural area. This is where satellite internet comes in.

I guess however, the reason it hasn't taken off as much as it should, is that there are fewer people living in those sparse areas. It's a matter of supply and demand I guess.

Playing again with Fonera

Image via Wikipedia

I have my Fonera up and running again, which is nice considering I had dropped off the map. If you've never heard of Fon before, it's a network of people who use their routers to offer an open Wifi hotspot for other people to use. Other people on the network can use it for free, while guests have an option to pay for the service. The router owner gets a cut of the hotspot cost.

I've only set it up as an experiment really. Until high speed satellite internet becomes more ubiquitous, then it's not so trivial getting a connection online when you're far away from home. I do have a 3G connection also but you can just imagine what the roaming costs are like.

In the meantime, I quite like the ideology behind Fon. Let's hope it goes on and on.

Time for some geek play

Seeing it's the weekend, I have some time to play with my latest toy. I've just got myself a set of Homeplugs which let me use my home network over power sockets. Why would you want to do that do you ask? Especially as I have a Wireless LAN. Well, not all the devices I have are Wifi, and while I could buy a Wifi adapter for each one, this is more cost efficient and it allows faster speeds that Wifi. And it I was playing with live streaming casting solutions for example, I would probably want the fastest speed I could get.

Anyway, onto playing; I'll let you know how it fares.