RE: OTish: WAP Phones...

["Adam Stevens" <adam@xxxxxxx>]

I don't run a WAP gateway locally, I dial into my network from the WAP
phone, and it picks up the gateway from the Internet via the cable modem at
home (in effect, it means I'm operating in the same way as an ISP, it means
I can also connect to my network, and hence the Internet via a PPC and the
Nokia phone by calling into my "Fax/PC line" at home - Saves
mucking about
with different ISPs).

The only "WAP specific" stuff I've had to do is configure the
MINE types on
the copy of IIS I run at home (and write the WAP pages obviously).

Some of my WAP stuff is accessible via http://wap.zz9.dyndns.org/ if you
want a look BTW (although there's not much there for "public"
access!).

Adam.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brown, Andy [Infrastructure] [mailto:andyb@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:52 PM
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OTish: WAP Phones...
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> Adam - what WAP gateway etc do you use?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Stevens [mailto:adam@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 April 2001 12:39
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OTish: WAP Phones...
>
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> > Seconded, WAP is generally useless. You know the cellnet adverts
all
> > switched to 'cartoony' type 3d, with clean payments and nice high
rise
> > appartments?
>
> If I can just stick my oar in here a moment!...
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> WAP is not useless... It's just useless for what many people
> think they can
> do with it! (eg, use it to "surf the web").
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> WAP is however *very* useful for what it was designed to do... a very
low
> bandwidth information system.  Hence it can be very useful for HA
> people.  I
> use WAP pretty extensively to dial directly into the house and monitor
> various HA things... I can even set the alarm via WAP if I leave the
house
> without setting it (which used to happen *all* the time!).  With the
> addition of SMS alerts, it can be a very usable system...
>
> All I need to do now is think of a reason just way I'd *want* to draw
the
> curtains from a WAP device halfway round the world! :-)
>
> Adam.
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