Google's Magic Bus
A nice article on the commuter shuttle I take to work everyday. In fact, I'm writing this on the bus. If you're curious about the cellular to wifi gateway we use, it's a Junxion box.
posted by Steve Jenson at 10:42 AM
Friday, January 28, 2005
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5 Comments:
You can build your own Junxion Box for around $200 with for the Soekris Engineering net4521 board and box, www.soekris.com. That sure beats $699 for the same box that the Junxion boys in Seattle painted green. I like the fact that I can customize the software and the WiFi section on the Soekris unit. Check out the Stompbox project at http://moro.fbrtech.com/~tora/EVDO/
10:36 AM
Oh, nice. Thanks for the tip!
10:19 PM
Thanks for bringing this up. Make vs. buy is a worthy discussion. Actually, Google is a great case study for the “buy” decision. The person at Google who performed the initial purchase evaluation actually approached us first, wondering, "why shouldn’t I build this myself using a Soekris board?" There are lots of reasons, particularly when you’re purchasing for your company, including: time/effort, features, FCC testing, customer support, warranty… It will continue to be interesting to see where the Soekris board is put to use. The Stompbox project and others like it create awareness and enthusiasm for the overall “wireless WAN router/gateway” market, which is big enough for lots of different approaches. Meanwhile, many enterprise/government customers and consumers will not want to build their own. -Peter Polson, Junxion, Inc.
4:09 PM
Go to www.topglobalusa.com you can find 3 such products for enterprise, consumer and embedded solutions. I just bought a cool 3G Phoebus for $399. True plug and play and real easy to use.
10:47 AM
Doesn't This Violate Your Cell Contract?
FYI: I paid a visit to the Cingular store and picked up the latest data service contract. It appears that the contracts are getting more restrictive as time passes. Here is what the current contract says:
"Data Service sessions may only be conducted for the following purposes: (i) Internet browsing; (ii) e-mail; and (iii) corporate intranet access (including access to corporate e-mail, customer relationship management, sales force automation, and field service automation applications). Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, using services: (i) with server devices or host computer applications, including, without limitation, Web camera posts or broadcasts, continuous jpeg file transfers, automatic data feeds, telemetry applications, automated functions, or any other machine-to-machine applications, (ii) as substitute or backup for private lines or dedicated data connections or (iii) for Voice over IP. Furthermore unlimited plans cannot be use for (i) uploading, downloading or streaming movies,music or games or (ii) in conjunction with WWAN or other applications or devices which aggregate usage from multiple sources prior to transmission."
It would appear that the last part is clearly referring to cell routers like the Junxion Box or Kyocera KR1, and quite possibly even Windows built-in Internet sharing service.
I do not have the latest Verizon contract yet, but the older contracts seem very similar.
1:30 PM
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