Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Daytona Beach
Posts: 19

Please help me out if you can.... While looking through all of the various boards, sites and faqs over the last few weeks, I haven't been able to get any concrete info on why I should get one the various modems being offered for my visor. What exactly can I do with a modem other that syncing over the phone, and hard is that if my computer is not online 24/7? What are the limitations that I will have to work around? I know it won't be the same as simply going online with a computer, but how will it work? Help! I want a modem lifestyle, help me to understand the dark mysteries involved....

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Indianapolis
Posts: 19

Why do I want a modem?

"Why do I want a Modem?"

Because geeks love toys!
Myself included.

Lars R. Noldan

__________________
----------------------------------
The difficult we do as a matter of routine. The impossible takes only slightly longer.
----------------------------------
[email protected]

Registered: Dec 2000
Location: East Coast, USA
Posts: 134

i don't own one (yet)

but you can get email, and browse the web also.

__________________
all around good guy

brandon
drop me a line

Registered: Dec 2000
Location: London, UK
Posts: 118

One answer, Palm VNC - now I've got the modem I need to go set this up

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: New York, New York
Posts: 560

quote:

---

Originally posted by embryoconcepts
Please help me out if you can.... While looking through all of the various boards, sites and faqs over the last few weeks, I haven't been able to get any concrete info on why I should get one the various modems being offered for my visor. What exactly can I do with a modem other that syncing over the phone, and hard is that if my computer is not online 24/7? What are the limitations that I will have to work around? I know it won't be the same as simply going online with a computer, but how will it work? Help! I want a modem lifestyle, help me to understand the dark mysteries involved....

---

__________________
Felipe Garcia
Happy Treo 600 user, so far. Thanx Cingular for having an unlocked phone.

My Treo 600 is my phone, my PDA, my watch, and my MP3 player. Oh yeah, I take a picture once in a while with it. Convergence is such a great thing.

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 165

Well, it depends... I bought a HS modem last June, and I really haven't used it very much at all. Not surprisingly, it's come in the most handy when travelling. But if you spent most of your time near a desktop PC with internet connection, the cost might not be justified; I got my modem used for $60, and I'm comfortable having spent that much on it despite how little I use it; it's nice to have around, for travelling and testing web pages in handheld browsers.
If I had spent the full $130 on it, I probably would have sold it by now out of guilt.

The Thinmodem+ might be worth checking out; even if you don't use the modem much, you'll still have that nice 8 megs of RAM.

Wireless modems, on the other hand, offer a huge range of utility to supplement your desktop connection... with a wireline modem springboard you still need to find an analog phone jack before you can use it when out & about, but with a Minstrel S, IR/Cellphone or data cable/cellphone connection you can get e-mail, driving directions, movie times, yellow pages, weather, etc. any old time you feel like it, as long as you have reception. It's incredibly handy! You won't get 56K, but since most of the browsing you do on a handheld is text-based, that's not a big deal.

__________________
<br>"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union" -Frank Lloyd Wright

Registered: Nov 2000
Location:
Posts: 714

quote:

---

Originally posted by Usonian
The Thinmodem+ might be worth checking out; even if you don't use the modem much, you'll still have that nice 8 megs of RAM.

---

__________________
Matt Nichols
[email protected]

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Phoenix Arizona
Posts: 74

Here's why you want a modem:

1. Leave that darn computer in the office - don't take it home.

2. Sit on the couch with a 25' cord -- and using a good browser - surf Visorcentral or your favorite web site -- and enjoy some time to yourself instead of working.

3. If the off hours need arises -- you can send e-mail or have text docs sent to you for review

4. If on the road and you've got a terrible dial-in conection, you can connect and still get stuff done.

There's nothing more fun than surfing the web and checking personal e-mail using a Prism and a modem -- and -- not being tied into work.

Just my opinion.
less is more
dave

Registered: May 2000
Location:
Posts: 14

[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Vitale
[B]Here's why you want a modem:

1. Leave that darn computer in the office - don't take it home.

2. Sit on the couch with a 25' cord -- and using a good browser - surf Visorcentral or your favorite web site -- and enjoy some time to yourself instead of working.


What browser and ISP do you use?

__________________
Randy

Registered: Nov 2000
Location:
Posts: 61

This morning I set up Bill Pay service with my bank to automatically send my mom some money every month, transferred $700 to my savings, and checked the weather and traffic while I waited for my girlfriend to get ready. A typical morning. All this using a wireless Minstrel modem. There are alot of things you can do...
I just moved to a new appartment and don't have phone service yet, and am seriously considering not getting any, nor an ISP, since my Minstrel and my cell phone seem to handle all my needs right now.

__________________
Once in a while you get shown
the light....

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Daytona Beach
Posts: 19

All this info is really good, I didn't expect such a great response and now I'm thinking of all the different ways I can use a modem for the things I need to do.

I did have a thought, but not sure how I could swing it....
I hate all of the financial software on the market, because it just doesn't do enough of what I need it to do. I use Quicken on my home computer, and want to be able to access quite a bit of the info I keep on there while I'm out and about. Is there a software program I can use in conjunction with a modem that would allow me to access my Quicken program? I know there are programs you can get that allow you to access your home computer from work and vice versa, but is such a thing possible with a computer and a pda?

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Seattle, Washington
Posts: 293

You can try using palm VNC
Download it here! http://www.btinternet.com/~harakan/PalmVNC/

__________________
Have A Good Day!
I Love My Prism!