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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (47935)	4/6/2002 1:37:37 PM
From: Rich1	Respond to of 99280

By wireless I am thinkiing of the capabilities to walk around your home, office, airport, and access the net. To download movies, music, stock quotes, books, TV shows to a handheld device.. Other than expensive, slow servers like Palm and Sprint who does that now on an economical basis..

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (47935)	4/6/2002 1:51:37 PM
From: DrGrabow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

My family is now almost entirely wireless: wireless LAN in the home and we all have wireless handsets. There goes that unlimited access for $15/20 a month. Wireless means monthly fees, pennies per minute as well as additional fees. I'll go wireless when they offer me a simple program at a reasonable price just like I have now. Am I a Luddite?

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (47935)	4/6/2002 2:34:32 PM
From: shoreco	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99280

Win-Lose-Draw <<My family is now almost entirely wireless, wireless LAN in the home>> Here's the problem w/wireless... It's still to expensive for the average Joe... I use a phoneline network in my house and I have 7 computers all sharing 1 highspeed cable connection. Total cost = $45per/pc Wireless would've cost $125per/pc and another $250 for the access point.. Once they start to give it away, it will spread like wildfire, but then again there's no profits in "free" Of course we're talking about a "LAN" connection for the home.. They're starting to carry wireless I-net at the Airports and other public places (Hotel lobbies), but you would never know it's there because they don't advertise these services, but they are restricted for use inside their buildings... For an anywhere connection. Another type of wireless is the CDPD network that I use for my Lap-Top and this cost $39.99 for unlimited service through AT&T or Verizon, but this service transfers @19k.. Voicestream offers a plan for about $70 per month that uses the GPRS (GSM) service that transfers @54k but they limit you to 10mb of data. The problem here is if you logged on and walked away you would be paying for all the flickering banner ads and pop-ups... Verizon is now offering a high speed pcmcia card that uses the CDMA network that transfers @150k but they charge you by the minute.. I could just see myself trading from the boat and logging on for about 8hrs per day. That's about 10000 minutes per month. Even the best phone plan only includes about 3000 minutes and the rest cost about $0.25 per minute. So that service would cost about $2,000 per month...LOL... So you see, IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE !!!!! EOM Shoreco PS People want an always on highspeed connection for an affordable monthly fee, say between $30 and $60. Once they offer this type of service in wireless it will be a hit...