I considered this too, but ISP's do not allow cellphone calls on the toll free numbers, and I will be using this in the bus. so I would need to get a data plan and use GPRS or CDMa modems. The cellphone is cheeper for occasional use. Now if woosh takes off, then it will be attractive. On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at 01:07 PM, Daniel Lawson wrote:
As another solution, you could use your cellphone (or any phone you are handy to) to dial into the commodity Internet, and run a VPN such as IPSec or encrypted PPTP over the Internet back to your home > network.
One benefit of this is that most ISPs have toll-free dialin, so you won't be paying a toll call to connect to your home network (and therefore wouldn't be a problem just borrowing a handy landline).