Jason Dunn
04-11-2002, 04:37 AM
<a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20020402-9999_1m2ucsdride.html">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20020402-9999_1m2ucsdride.html</a><br /><br />Broadband everywhere is still a dream, but this is one step closer to reality. It doesn't state what kind of technology it uses, but it sounds interesting - a melding of LAN and WAN technologies.<br /><br />"UCSD researchers have created a way for bus riders to use the Internet from their seats, another step to help people connect to the Net faster and from more places. Wireless connections to the Internet are available in some areas of the country, including San Diego, but are not yet widely used. Yesterday, University of California San Diego researchers demonstrated a new kind of connection that allows bus riders to not only check e-mail but also surf the Internet and download files at a peak speed of 2.4 megabits per second...<br /><br />...During a shuttle ride yesterday, Harel used his Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC, along with a wireless modem card, to surf the Internet. As the bus rumbled through campus and onto Interstate 5, Harel watched video clips on CNN's Web site, left an e-mail message for his daughter at University of California Berkeley and checked his campus e-mail....<br /><br />...In UCSD's shuttle bus project, riders with a laptop or handheld computer equipped with a modem can connect to the local network in the bus, which then connects them to the Qualcomm network towers and the Internet. UCSD has one Qualcomm tower atop its Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering, and three others are installed on Qualcomm buildings in Mira Mesa and Sorrento Valley and just east of Interstate 5 off Genesee Avenue. Each tower covers a 10-mile radius."