Comments on: Car WiFi: Avis & AutoNet Mobile http://gigaom.com/2007/01/02/car-wifi/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jim Means http://gigaom.com/2007/01/02/car-wifi/#comment-131270 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:05:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/car-wifi/#comment-131270 Here’s what’s special: you don’t need a 3G card, you don’t need a phone, and you don’t need a broadband account with your phone company. I think this service would be great, I would use it one or two weeks a year when I go storm chasing. I don’t even have a wireless phone, to do what you’re suggesting would cost several hundred dollars in equipment plus committing to a wireless data contract for at least a year at some exorbitant rate. Plus, the coverage appears better than any single wireless provider can give.

]]> By: Daniel Dreymann http://gigaom.com/2007/01/02/car-wifi/#comment-131269 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:34:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/car-wifi/#comment-131269 No need to buy a Mac, easily done on XP. See for example http://barboni.org/wiki//index.php?title=Mobile:_Turn_your_laptop_into_a_WI-FI_hotspot_with_an_EV-DO_backhaul.

When traveling, my EVDO-enabled ThinkPad T60p easily becomes a hotspot for my daughter’s ThinkPad T41.

I really don’t understand what’s so special about the service from Autonet Mobile and why the NY Times find it article-worthy.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/01/02/car-wifi/#comment-131268 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:27:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/car-wifi/#comment-131268 Jesse

could not agree with you more on this – this is a dumb idea – 3G broadband just might be the new dot com. Anyway it is cheaper to sign-up for the service from VZ and turn your little Mac into a wifi hot spot. I have done it often. Another reason to buy a Mac ;-)

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2007/01/02/car-wifi/#comment-131267 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:35:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/car-wifi/#comment-131267 This makes no sense to me. Why wound’t I just bring my own 3G connection via PC card or tehered phone? This would make sense as a free service that was a value add to get me to go with Avis over the competition, but at $11/day . . ?

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