[Ti] Free nationwide wireless internet

[Paul Russell]

>At 1:22 PM -0600 3/21/03, JELyon wrote:
>
>>If I understand correctly, you would get the DHCP address from a 
>>DHCP server (a *nix box, nt box, or gateway/router, for example) 
>>sitting on your home network - just like dialing into an ISP - 
>>except your home network is your ISP.
>
>I'm scratching my head until one of us achieves this.
>
>The TiBook makes a standard PPP (modem) dial-up connection, using 
>one of your T-Mobile cell phones. This call has to be to another 
>cell phone on your T-Mobile family plan, to avoid any charges. That 
>receiving cell phone is connected to the computer, as a modem. The 
>computer has to answer PPP style.
>
>I'm just realizing that I don't know how to answer in OS X, but 
>there must be a way. Otherwise, the answering computer could be 
>running MacOS 9 and answer with Remote Access.

One possibility (other than using a PC or a Linux box) might be the 
Airport Extreme Basestation - I believe the newer models support 
dial-in via the modem - you'd have to hack them to allow connection 
of a cell phone via a serial cable (in much the same way that the 
Stealth gPort allows direct serial connections to modem-only G4 
desktop machines).

Paul

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