wi fi at glamis washes?

[randiw]

Hi - Is anyone aware of any efforts to get wireless internet access in the glamis washes? I need to login when I'm at the dunes. The closest wi fi I can find is in Brawley. There's a company called Computer GURU (760-344-1449, ivguru.com) which charges $4/hr or $20/month and there's the McDonalds which charges $2.95/2 hrs. Computer GURU was just bought out by a larger company and they have expressed interest in trying to set something up in the dunes. The guys running Computer GURU are commuting from San Diego and don't know the area very well. I told them about the Glamis beach store as a possible location for their equipment.

If anyone else is interested in this or has suggestions on how to get wireless internet at the dunes I'd like to hear about it.

Thanks!
Randi

[glamispilot]

i am in the process of working with beamspeed to get it put up in glamis.
you can check them out at http://www.beamspeed.net . im just waiting to here back from them....Tim

[Greg Hall]

Looks good Tim! We always need to connect while at the dunes and I have been looking some options to our current very slow service.

[norocksplease]

sprint cell internet is good, faster than dial up by a bit, works good too!

[jhitesma]

I have a couple clients here in Yuma who use Beamspeed and...well...I'll just take the advice of the old saying and say nothing at all about it. And that really is the nicest thing I can say based on my experience with them. (and that's in town short distances with near ideal conditions other than heat which kills the bandwith BIG TIME.)

Verizon has pretty good coverage in the dunes in my experience and my phone shows that their towers that cover Gordon's at least are capable of supporting their digital service. It's no cable modem speed but it should be usable. Most other cell carriers also have digital net service they offer but there are several different systems used by different carriers and I'm not sure exactly which are available in the dunes or how well they work.

[Greg Hall]

I have used a couple of different cell connections but I find it is just not usable to up/down load large files.

I guess DataStorm is my next option.

[Papa Perry]

I am using a T-Mobile Air Card. About the speed of dial uo, but better than nothing....

[d_sheffs]

Cingular is working on deploying a new wide band wireless technlolgy. This will allow cable-modem type of connection speeds from a cell based system. should be available by the end of the year. The service may not necessarily be available in the immediate glamis are at launch but it is currently being deployed nationwide. And i do know that there is a cell tower near the washes behind the store and Cingular is on it.

the only down side to a service of this type is the connection slows with high capacity. so you might go out on an off weekend and have great data speeds, but slow to a crawl on a busy holiday weekend when there is 10x the engineered level of traffic service.

[L&L Corvairs]

Excuse me??? Exactly WHY would you want to be on the computer instead of RIDING???


























Just teasing you IT junkies.

[quad1100]

I always looked forward to going out there and not being able to be reached, kind of a get away from everyday life.

[azpyroguy]

Ikes... if that happens... then my boss WILL contact me out there.. right now I tell him that my cell and pager dont work..... but he thinks that I am just not answering....

Hi - Is anyone aware of any efforts to get wireless internet access in the glamis washes? I need to login when I'm at the dunes. The closest wi fi I can find is in Brawley. There's a company called Computer GURU (760-344-1449, ivguru.com) which charges $4/hr or $20/month and there's the McDonalds which charges $2.95/2 hrs. Computer GURU was just bought out by a larger company and they have expressed interest in trying to set something up in the dunes. The guys running Computer GURU are commuting from San Diego and don't know the area very well. I told them about the Glamis beach store as a possible location for their equipment.

If anyone else is interested in this or has suggestions on how to get wireless internet at the dunes I'd like to hear about it.

Thanks!
Randi

[Greg Hall]

Excuse me??? Exactly WHY would you want to be on the computer instead of RIDING???

Just teasing you IT junkies.

Want to? Not really but at times we need to be able to be "on the computer"

My wife and I are both unemployed....ooops I mean't to say self employed and it allows us to finish up things while on the road.

[Papa Perry]

Excuse me??? Exactly WHY would you want to be on the computer instead of RIDING???
Just teasing you IT junkies.

How I pay for my toys. if I can help a customer for a few hours at Glamis, it pays for my whole trip.

[CrstyDmn]

OK,
Just a question: Where would WiFi be best placed? Washes / G.B.S / Vendor Alley / Gecko Ranger Station.

I am a Project Mgr for SBC Freedomlink WiFi.
I think there are some great oppertunites here.

Scott

[glamispilot]

OK,
Just a question: Where would WiFi be best placed? Washes / G.B.S / Vendor Alley / Gecko Ranger Station.

I am a Project Mgr for SBC Freedomlink WiFi.
I think there are some great oppertunites here.

Scott

i need it at g.b.s for my site what band width do you offer???? Tim

[CrstyDmn]

Lets say we put WiFi at the G.B.S;
#1) The bandwidth would depend on the Circuit Transport available.
A DSL Line would be 384 mb minimum up to 1.5 mb.
A T1 line would be 1.5 mb.
(I would need a Telephone Number - to Qualify what is available )

#2 Locating the Antennae on the roof of G.B.S. would...
Allow the average Laptop a solid useable signal 200 ft away @ 11mb .
Allow a Laptop w/External Adapter (Ant. Signal Booster) avg. costs
is @ $65-$75 a solid useable signal up to 3/4 mile away @ 11mb .

Anyone truly interested in SBC WiFi,
Simply email me at SA1315@SBC.COM and reference the ASA Boards.

[azpyroguy]

Lets say we put WiFi at the G.B.S;
#1) The bandwidth would depend on the Circuit Transport available.
A DSL Line would be 384 mb minimum up to 1.5 mb.
A T1 line would be 1.5 mb.
(I would need a Telephone Number - to Qualify what is available )

#2 Locating the Antennae on the roof of G.B.S. would...
Allow the average Laptop a solid useable signal 200 ft away @ 11mb .
Allow a Laptop w/External Adapter (Ant. Signal Booster) avg. costs
is @ $65-$75 a solid useable signal up to 3/4 mile away @ 11mb .

Anyone truly interested in SBC WiFi,
Simply email me at SA1315@SBC.COM and reference the ASA Boards.

I use a 20db gain Handheld Yagi Antenna, for my war drives that I do while testing my companies wireless security, I am able to pick up weak signals from over 1 mile away that are from indoor antennas... so I would imagine that if the antenna was outdoors and was omni-directional, with the right antenna I should be I able to go down 3-4 miles and still get around 1mb of service...

If anyone cares... A yagi antenna is pretty much directional, and requires a very short cable usually less than 20 feet from its source..unless you have some sort of a amplifier.. but I have no experience working with amps...

Oh geez... now I just sounded like a geek....

[jhitesma]

Hmmm, just built a microwave pre-amp (but it's only really good for up to 1.2Ghz don't think it would do much at 2.4Ghz) and Dwayne is going to be building on as well as soon as I get his kit out to him



I tell ya though...soldering those tiny little SMT parts is not as easy as it looks!

Maybe I'll actually get around to hooking that thing up this weekend....

I've also been working on a setup for recieving 2.4Ghz FM from a satellite but it's not quite ready yet:



The downconverter (the white thing) I had to put a new crystal in to drop it's output to the 144Mhz amateur band. I still need to retune it's input filter though...just can't seem to find anyone with a spectrum analyzer and 2.4Ghz signal source to help me with that though Have parts to build a signal source but no test gear to see how accurate it is....

That funky green antenna I'm still kind of curious about. The label on it says it's good for 1.2Ghz - 4Ghz so it should work well for 2.4Ghz...but I have no clue as to how directional it is or how much gain it's got.

Ahh, the joys of too many hobbies and not enough time

[d_sheffs]

WIFI is not a realistic option in the dunes. As pointed out already you have to be around 200 feet max distance between the antenna and you, not including any attenuation. So if you put a system at say the ranger station, unlees you camp on the black top immediatley next to it you will not have service. WIFI is just too low power to cover the type of terrain at glamis.

The reason cellular is much more realistic is because they can transmit to you with much more power and have much better RX amplification abilities to recieve your weak low power signal.

all these little "cell phone boosters" and antenna doo-dads are really a joke. (anyone putting slick 50 in your rail motor?) they are simplex devices and it does you no good to amplify the RX signal------you need to
boost your TX form you transceiving device also and this is something these things can not do. but sombody is making money off them and laughing all the way to the bank so good for them.

[jhitesma]

WiFI for the general public may be very limited. Even antenna options to increase gain are limited by the FCC.

But if you've got an amateur radio license then there are a number of frequencies that overlap and you can run increased power levels. You can also run higher gain antennas, you give up wide coverage for directed signal but you can toss that signal a lot further. Of course you'd have to setup your own access point as well and that's the big problem.

You can't get cable or DSL out there. Your options are pretty much satellite (nice bandwith but horrible latency) or run a leased line (Major $$$$).

There are point to point wireless options (like Beamspeed) that can get a signal out to there...but they all have some pretty major drawbacks as well.

And without enough people wanting service out there to make it profitable (not going to happen without a sizeable year round population and that's simply not going to happen) the best bet will probably continue to be cellular service.