16 Cell Phones In Parallel Net Access

Blackbox writes "This site answers the age old question: "What do you get when you run 16 mobile phones in parallel?" The answer is of course a 150 kbit/s connection to the internet for your car! Check it out at:
The megacar or Tom's Hardware"

Comments

Good grief... another stupid idea

[Sodakar]

Am I the only one who finds these "advances" to be completely silly? By the time one can implement this cost-effectively, a newer technology with 40 times the bandwidth will be in place.

Diamond's Shotgun technology comes to mind... "Get ISDN speed with 2 modems!" (or just get DSL for the same cost.)

Never mind that Japan already has enough bandwidth on their mobiles to send video, and they're thinking of providing DSL-speed access to PSX 2 users via mobiles...

Not that I ridicule them for trying... But it's really just a "cool, we did it" type of project, and unless there is a revolutionary, cost-effective way to minimize hardware, it's just going to remain as it is - a "cool project"... Oh well.

In other news, I've found a way to stick 16 M&M's together and eat them more efficiently -- the only problem is that the labor involved to stick them together is insanely expensive....

Sorry, I guess I'm just overly jealous of my cousin's new video-phone in Japan... drool

Re:Good grief... another stupid idea

[zorgon]

...really creative and unique, but WHY?

Well, I hate to say it, but if you have to ask that question, you're not a hacker.
What was itMaster Y0d4 said in TESB?

Do. Or do not. There is no why.

(or was that try)

Re: A Beowulf cluster of TVs?

[BigBlockMopar]

What'll be next, a Beowulf cluster of TVs?

Too late. I've already done it.

I collect early TV sets, mostly from the 1950s. Every year, I host Academy Awards and Emmies parties at my house. A bunch of my friends come over, and we watch the show on a collection of about 12 1950s-1960s vintage TV sets.

Oh yeah, and in the middle of all of that is my Sony Trinitron.

Lemme tell you, twelve early TV sets, some with as many as 44 tubes, makes a hell of a lot of heat and uses a shitload of power. Extension cords, coaxial cable, RF distribution amplifiers and splitters, crank the air conditioner...

Sadly, I don't yet have a Philco Predicta, so it's not all it's cracked up to be. If ya got one, working or not, as long as it wasn't stored underwater or something, I'll buy it off ya.

I forsee a problem already..

[citizenc]

I mean.. driving along, and downloading pr0n and mp3s at 150k/sec at the same time?

I can see the news report now: "In other news, a local man was killed in a one-car accident, when he apparently lost control of his vechicle, and crashed it into a tree. Sources at the scene report that the man's body had only one hand on the steering wheel.."

Re:Stale

[jslag]

This is VERY stale info. . .the damn thing uses CDPD for christ's sake

Right, where as the current standard for wireless data in the US is... oh, wait... still CDPD (or PPP over CDMA / TDMA, which is worse).

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This is a repeat-- link below.

[raygundan]

Here is the link to the previous (nearly identical) article on Slashdot from a long time ago.

Obvious story title:

[finkployd]

"Information Superhighway Collides with Real Highway"

Finkployd

NT server eh?

[Tom7]

Nice car, but according to the diagram it runs NT server!
I'd hate to see it... "crash".

ISP's supporting this?

[bgarcia]

Even if you can afford this car, don't you also need an ISP who has the hardware/software to multiplex the 16 separate phone connections back into a single connection?

I didn't see this part of the project discussed at Tom's Hardware. I would think that this would be the major stumbling block.

Forget a beowulf Cluster

[Life Blood]

Can it turboboost?

I'm downloading your porn for you now, Michael