To: faqsnlojiks who wrote (1360 ) 5/13/1999 4:06:00 PM From: Joana Tides Respond to
Howdy Pals, and much obliged Joe, I sure did take a looky at that wireless portfolio at techstocks.com (don't thank me, thank Joe) and there's much knowledge about this sector of our netnut sector's wireless Very Next Phase techie area on the SI threads of the stocks mentioned, too. Here's a consumer forum site that looks promising: deja.com too, some puter talk on there. I don't have powder right now for any more these futuristic nets if you know what I mean...and I haven't wanted to really get into investing more in it (I got a few smaller stocks freeriding in the field like CAMP, SRCM and a couple others, and then there's the bigs into it in some ways like INTC, T, IBM, LU, ROK, CNXT, etc.) til I get more a grip on the deployment timeframe and the connections betwixt and between; which has alot to do with when there's gonna be a greatbig pop. So far, the technology is coming along and the integrations are happening...but I'll know enough to talk about it from experience when I get the time I need to get myself all set up wireless; evaluating many products and possibilities while doing so "from the field" of course, to get some consumerside understanding of the whole thing. All I know is, as of this time, a newbie can't just walk into a store and say "Hi, would you kindly show me those new wireless mini gadgets I've heard so much about, get me set up, and show me how to use demdar Internet?". Until that happens, it's all in the future and who knows how long IMHO. As things stand at present, it's a whole durn difficult timeconsuming process to get the thing Operational and I plan to squeeze the Lemon from the time spent into Lemonade for the stock in it that will make it pay for itself quick. For now, the whole thing still seems to be just out of R & D ... not for newbies and it's very expensive ...it entails going to the wireless phone/provider store and writing down phone model numbers available; then going to a puter store, writing down model numbers of the puterly gizmos/transformer/modems with their Specialized Adapters they have in stock listed as matching that providers phones; then going back to the Phone store and choosing the phone and signing up; then back to the puter store to test it's function with the wireless puter gizmo and adapter, and evaluate is it worth more to pay more for upgradeable potential which itself might be surpassed too quickly to have made paying twice as much for it worth that extra money....etc. Haven't had a timewindow free to do that yet, as I had hoped to, oh well but probably will be glad I waited. Even 2 or 3 months is a long time; as months are years in Technets; and a year turns into a lightyear anyway when it comes to the pace of changes.
