Børge Wedel Müller wrote in
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YES - Very good.
Now we do just need a brave "greenfielder" who want to bring us all to
the next generation....

sincerely
/Børge


"Larry" skrev i meddelelsen
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Bruce in alaska wrote in news:fast-
:

One would NEED, to first have a Hardware Bridge that bridges the two
different Hardware Connection Standards. Then a Protocol Converter
that can translate between the two Protocols in question,
BiDirectionally....

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Bruce in alaska
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I have this silly dream of a wifi network you just plug any
DHCP-enabled device into 12V. The "marine router" connects to it and
assigns it an DHCP IP, then makes a connection to its port 12345 and
presents it an automatic broadcast of every data statement being
received at the router. In that data stream is the IP and ID data of
every instrument available. When you turn on the new Wind
instrument, the router reports to all connections the new wind
instruments ID/IP and starts feeding the wind data to the broadcast
stream.

Even your handheld walkie talkie, pocket GPS, tablet computer,
laptop, etc., all connect to the boat's network. The walkie talkie
can display lat/long/wind/course/speed/distance to waypoint....any
data that's available...right on the walkie screen. The chart
plotter in the hand held GPS shows the same data as the one at the
helm or on the nav software on the computer.

It all exists with off-the-shelf hardware. Software for it exists or
is easily written in Linux, holding down cost by using an open source
operating system every manufacturer can use for free. All
instruments will talk with all other instruments WITHOUT this
proprietary bull**** trying to force the boater to buy only our
equipment we have now.

Any device can connect DIRECTLY to any other device on the network.
The computer can directly connect on a separate channel to the
autopilot, for instance. They can swap data separately from the
public broadcast channel.

Ethernet - TCP/IP can make this happen this month.

There's no need to reinvent the wheel with a bunch of "marine", read
that "proprietary" nonsense....



My cellular provider, Alltel, is being swallowed by the most dispicable
company in America, Verizon Wireless....5GB/mo for $60 + 25
cents/MEGABYTE over that limit....$250/GB! That isn't going to happen.

We have a new carrier on CDMA with EVDO called Cricket. Unlimited
service is really cheap in limited areas, one of which I live in.
Cricket only has one model of USB cellular modem and won't permit
tethering via bluetooth to my Nokia N800 Linux tablets (2), so I've
looked around and found a grand solution!

http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-02/...000-best-evdo-
router-ever/

The cellular phone modem (upper left in picture grey plastic) is plugged
into this magic box, which is a real router with the added feature of a
USB modem port that the cellular connects to. 256 wifi users can now
share the one cellular modem's limited bandwidth over regular wifi.

I borrowed the router from a company here until mine is delivered and
signed up for the $40/month Cricket (www.mycricket.com) EVDO cellular
modem $59.

Wherever I go, my car now creates a wifi hotspot I can use up to about
35 meters from the car to my Nokia N800 Linux tablets. Both tablets can
be connected, simultaneously, and use the same internet connection,
which on little Cricket is about 300-700Kbps on the street. It even
works great underway as the car drives around because wifi doesn't
handoff but cellular does.

My SSID on the wifi is W4CSC/MOBILE and it's wide open....help yourself.

The router is about $200 from places on the net....

This thing would be great on a boat, as the solution to the internet
problem, even away from the marina with wifi. It's its own hotspot, so
anywhere you'd have cellular data connectivity, you have your own wifi
internet....such as anchored out in the harbor far away from the free
wifi. Cellular has much wider range than any wifi to get to the boat's
system. Put these things in a plastic enclosure at the top of the mast
or on the yardarm and simply feed +12VDC from the house batteries
permanently to it and you'll have internet wherever you have cellular.

Mine simply sits on the back shelf of my '73 Mercedes 220D sedan and
provides plenty of signal for sitting at a table in any restaurant,
whether that restaurant has wifi or not....

I'm sure there's a similar GSM capable router that would work in Denmark
and the EU available. Only the programming on the USB port interface
would be different.