[Land-speed] IN Car Communications

[Skip Higginbotham]

Thanks Jon, I googled aircard and it showed me what it is. Sorry about 
misrepresenting you. I'm more of a pots and pans guy...........

Skip


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Wennerberg" <jonwennerberg at nancyandjon.org>
To: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat at pahrump.com>
Cc: <drmayf at mayfco.com>; <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:22
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] IN Car Communications


Skip (and the rest of youse guys):

The way I connect to the internet at the salt IS NOT wi-fi -- just for the 
sake of this discussion.  Rather it uses a bit of hardware and software and 
connects to the internet through the stream of information on the cell phone 
network (basically, everywhere depending on who your carriers is.  Verizon 
covers 100% of the salt flats).

I know that we've had zero issues with it losing signal when driving down 
the road, for instance.  Yes, it loses signal when we go through a tunnel, 
but not through railroad overpasses or highway overheads, etc.  There aren't 
too many tunnels on the salt flats surface, so that shouldn't be a problem.

The data rate is fairly good -- in the range of 750kb - 1Mb/second.  Photos 
are generally the largest files I send and receive - and they take a handful 
of seconds, not minutes.  So - you could expect to have relatively fast 
response time for sending data.

The thingie that connects to the internet is about thumb-size and plugs into 
a USB port.  At the beginning of a session we must go through a startup 
routine, but that's 20 seconds or so, and it stays hooked up for as long as 
12 hours at a time.

As for conversations with a driver -- well, I've never used Skype, but 
that's about the thing that Mayf wants, right -- two way voice 
communications and also some data.  That'd all go through the little 
internet thingie, for sure.  I could show it to you -- but will have to get 
a photo of it and post it someplace other than here.  Let me know if you're 
interested in seeing the "aircard", as we call it.

Jon a/k/a Seldom Seen Slim