lumrant
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
WAP!
With the help of Knave, I have stuck it to The Man! The Man in this case being Verizon. I can now once again browse various Web resources for free using my cell phone, provided that:
- Road Runner does not change my IP address to something different
- My home computer is up and running
OK, admittedly, it's fairly brittle. But still, it's better than relying on somebody else to keep a free WAP Gateway up and running (at least I know whom to blame if mine is down!), and it's better than paying $5/month to Verizon for something that is, at the end of the day, mostly only there to amuse me while I'm killing time at the doctor's office or something.
The engine: an open-source WAP Gateway server called Kannel. As of this moment, anyone in the world can open up their mobile phone, tell it to use IP address 68.202.100.132 (port 9201) as their WAP gateway, and voila: my home computer is suddenly feeding data to their phone from the Internet. Creepy. I'm sure Road Runner will deprive me of this IP soon, so I'm not fearful that my poor computer will be overwhelmed with gateway requests...
Comments:
I disagree with the disagreement with stupid comment. If ever again I manage to get writing anything interesting again, you won't be mocking the comment system!
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