cheap portable wifi solution

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Hi Kaine,

Don't think it is the cheapest, but the Palm Tungsten|C is an excellent PDA wireless solution. A client of mine picked up 15 of
them to work on their production floor. They have been very happy with the results.

I've not really gotten into using a Palm for Internet/E-mail. I use my HP Pavilion zd7010us laptop for all of my on-line work.
Again not cheap, but if you have a real need (mission critical) for WiFi then you might want to consider buying a new laptop.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
He esteems too lightly

kaine wrote:
> hi, im a student on a real tight budget looking for a portable wifi
> solution such as a pda, im just wondering can anyone tell me of the
> cheapest option available. i have been looking at cheap pdas on ebay
> but they dont seem to have cf slot for a wifi adaptor. im just
> wondering also how have other people got on looking for cheap wifi
> solutions. i was hoping to use my p133 laptop but all wifi pcmcia
> adaptors seem to require 32bit cardbus and mine is 16bit.
>
> thanks for any advice
>
> kaine

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"kaine" <kainekainekaine@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1105c961.0407181112.5e145bb8@posting.google.com...
> hi, im a student on a real tight budget looking for a portable wifi
> solution such as a pda, im just wondering can anyone tell me of the
> cheapest option available. i have been looking at cheap pdas on ebay
> but they dont seem to have cf slot for a wifi adaptor. im just
> wondering also how have other people got on looking for cheap wifi
> solutions. i was hoping to use my p133 laptop but all wifi pcmcia
> adaptors seem to require 32bit cardbus and mine is 16bit.
>
> thanks for any advice
>
> kaine

How cheap?

One solution would be to buy an inexpensive Palm device on eBay and then
supplement it with an Endora "WiFi Wallet" (for lack of a better term). See
it at
http://www.mobileplanet.com/privat [...] 5Fname=ENF

While you are over at eBay, do a search for "TRG PRO". This was an
excellent PDA in its time, upgradable to PalmOS 3.5 with 8MB of RAM and a CF
slot. I see that they have sold on eBay recently for as little as $25.00,
though the two units currently available are already in the $135 range with
a few days yet to go...

Carmine Castiglia
http://www.infosystemspro.com
Home of Geo-Matic for the Palm and Decimal Equivalents, Drills & Tap Drills
for the Palm (and screws too!)
More to come!

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On 18 Jul 2004 12:12:26 -0700, kainekainekaine@hotmail.com (kaine) spewed forth
these words of wisdom:

>hi, im a student on a real tight budget looking for a portable wifi
>solution such as a pda, im just wondering can anyone tell me of the
>cheapest option available. i have been looking at cheap pdas on ebay
>but they dont seem to have cf slot for a wifi adaptor. im just
>wondering also how have other people got on looking for cheap wifi
>solutions. i was hoping to use my p133 laptop but all wifi pcmcia
>adaptors seem to require 32bit cardbus and mine is 16bit.
>
>thanks for any advice
>
>kaine

Used Palm Zire 71 with a SanDisk WiFi SD card. $250-300.

--
"I'm not a cool person in real life, but I play one on the Internet"
Galley

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Steve Humphrey <steve.humphrey@ece.queensu.ca> wrote in
news:40FBE796.1080801@ece.queensu.ca:

> I am trying out a Tungsten C>
>
> Is there a way to keep the wifi alive when the screen shuts off? We want
> it to let us know if email arrives, but when the screen shuts off the
> wifi goes down as well.
>
> Steve
>
It comes with VersaMail which you can set up to check your email accounts
at defined intervals (regardless of screen state).



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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:52:17 +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Antoni_Ten_Monr=F3s?=
<kuroshima@gempukku.com> wrote:

>Have you tried one of those pendrive/Wifi adapter combos that plug into
>the USB?

WRONG. No PDA has a USB controller; so even if you cabled them together,
they would not work.

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yeltrabnhoj@email.com wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:52:17 +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Antoni_Ten_Monr=F3s?=
> <kuroshima@gempukku.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Have you tried one of those pendrive/Wifi adapter combos that plug into
>>the USB?
>
>
> WRONG. No PDA has a USB controller; so even if you cabled them together,
> they would not work.

No, not for the PDA, for the laptop! ir will be cheaper than a PDA,
given that the OP was complaining that he could not get PCMCIA cards
with wifi for his laptop due to the laptop's old hardware

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On 2004-07-19, Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:53:19 +0000, yeltrabnhoj wrote:
>> WRONG. No PDA has a USB controller; so even if you cabled them together,
>> they would not work.
>
> The Zaurus SL-6000 has USB host.

It has built-in WiFi, too, so it wouldn't NEED USB for this
application, but it isn't available in stores or to individuals
anyway, according to reviews I've read.

Also, at $600 it probably isn't considered "cheap".
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Well, if you're going to consider the Sharp Zaurus models, there's also
the SL-C700/800 models in Japan as well that'll handle wifi with a card.

http://conics.net/shp/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/index.html

Also, dirt-cheap on the vertical models on www.ebay.com.