Oh, I suppose minutes go easily, even if I were able to get 2800 night and weekend, and 200 any time, the 200 minutes is only 3 hours and 20 minutes of use, the 2800 is almost two days of constant use depending on what they consider night and weekends, whether night is after 5, or any other time. At 10:02 AM 12/17/01 -0500, you wrote: >If you mean that you want to use a modem over a cellular telephone >connection, yes, you can do that if you have the requisite equipment and >accounts. Obviously, you need a cell phone account, and you need a modem >that knows how to use cellular, or a modem that can talk to a cell phone. >My solution is the latter. My Audiovox 9000 has a data port and I connect >to it over a serial cable. It is only 9.6, though. I don't know of >anything faster. And, it can get expensive quickly because you can eat up >the minutes very quickly this way. > > On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Brent Harding >wrote: > >> Is there any good way to get cellular access to the Internet in the >> states at at least 28.8 k using my computer to get online? I don't care >> what OS I must use as long as it's not required to upgrade to millenium or >> xp, staying with 98 and linux. If it's a pcmcia card, is there a pci to >> pcmcia adapter that I can put the card in a desktop system? Thanks. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > >-- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > >Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > >Chair, Accessibility SIG >Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) >http://www.openebook.org > >Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, >Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > >Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther >King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at >http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > >Learn how to make accessible software at >http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >