RoadTrip: Geekin Out

RoadTrip: Geekin Out 18 Feb 2008 14:55

One of the things that we have all had quite a bit of fun with on the Road Trip has been spending 2 weeks in a car full of tech.

We started with Chris managing to get 50kg (the 2 servers, laptops and camera gear) on the plane as carry-on, then we got acquainted with the tricked out Windows Mobile truck (2007 Ford Territory) with such useful things as a laser guided reversing camera, drinks pockets for 'nam, automatic everything (including lights) and a Zune dock for music.

The #1 toy though has to be the Top Global Wireless WAN/Mobile Router.

Originally when we were planning the Road Trip we were going to have to find venues which could supply us with internet, as our website and presentation uses Virtual Earth. Now in New Zealand this is actually still quite a nuisance unless you use one of the pricier top end venues which would have blown a bit of our budget. So instead we decided to use mobile data cards as a fall back and just take a punt that we might end up with a "better connection" some of the time anyway.

This turned out to be a very good punt as a contact of Darryls from Advanced Portable Technology lent us the Top Global Router for the trip, which can take either a hard wired input, wireless OR a mobile data card (and you can prioritize which is the better link so it can fail over as needed). Fantastic piece of kit, and one which has meant we have largely been presenting (and Ferry-Area-Networking) off mobile data the whole trip - Thanks APT! :)

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