3.4.10

Camping the Old-fashioned Way

Right now I am camping the old-fashioned way with an internet connection and a laptop by the fire.  Ahhhh, nothing beats roughin' it. Now I know how Lewis and Clark must have felt.  I have an unlocked HP iPAQ Voice Messenger running Windows Mobile, which is sharing a $10/month T-mobile unlimited wireless internet connection to my old IBM Thinkpad A22m laptop.  For $10/month I only get T-Mobile's EDGE, which is faster than dial-up but much slower than DSL or cable.  I assume Lewis and Clark only had dial-up, and I wouldn't be surprised if they constantly shut their laptop off out of frustration with such slow internet speeds.