On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 15:32 +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Toby Proctor wrote: > > Just a thought I had last night, but is it possible to "reverse the > > polarity" of the WLAN on the N800 and turn it into a small, portable > > hotspot which uses e.g. an HSDPA cellphone as the backhaul? > > > > Toby > > Well even if it was possible, it isn't very good idea battery-wise. When > running as AP battery would run out _very_ quicky since AP mode cannot > use WLAN power saving and need to communicate a lot. Also the speed of > WLAN in N800 isn't exactly great. So basically you would get expensive > and slow access point with touscreen and high resolution display. GPRS isn't high bandwidth and there are many place with electricity (anywhere your car is for example :), GPRS coverage but otherwise without internet connection so I wouldn't dismiss so quickly the usefulness of an AP mode for the N800. Laurent
