Anyone else getting the vibe that since this thing will have a 3g connection on the backend, that it can be misused by others(governments) to track and remotely control/access your device. Geeeeeeeeee. This does not sound like a good idea... Well unless your the TSA.

I could see it working in larger areas, or between larger cities. Example, in North Carolina, If I could go from Winston-Salem, NC to Raleigh, NC, however we're talking 120 miles highway, and possibly 160 via rails, although I don't see myself driving 30-60 miles to get to a train station, to hop on a train that only runs 2 times a day, to get to a city where I would have to rent a car or get a ride from a friend because... in some cities in NC... public transportation only stops most places 2 times a day.... so I think I'll just drive the 80-100 miles to get where I need to go and do what I need to do. K THX GIVE ME MY TAX MONEY BACK BAI

You can test lead-acid batteries by measuring the resistance between the terminals. Most upses only look for voltage from the battery. This means that the battery casing can split open, leak acid, before the batter grounds out or goes kaboom, or whatnot. I had one battery in a 64 battery cabinet leak out and ground out the batteries.... The bloody APC Silcon (now discontinued) ups didn't throw an alarm at all, all we noticed that there were no lights all of a sudden when the power flickered. It was apparently a firmware bug or some sort because APC swapped out the firmware IC chips when they replaced the batteries.

Generally, with larger ups systems, you tend to have a quarterly battery inspection where a tech comes out, takes voltage and ohms readings for each battery in the unit, and visually inspects the batteries in the cabinet.

Also, anything that has to be audited/signed/checked off for process control/accountability, which relates back to regulations.

I could find my site from ages ago... and find all the fun crap people have posted to geocities.

I live in Greensboro, and frankly, this just irks me to no end. I work in IT, I've negotiated high capacity circuit contracts with telecom carriers. This is just such an insane markup that its crazy. You could practically exceed their 5 GB cap just with BACKGROUND traffic on some of their larger broadcast subnets. (Think larger then a /24.)

I'm thinking I should just start a WISP. With their logic, with just a T1 line, I could make a crap load of money.

Install a bigger antenna. Oh 12 db gain should do nicely.

Nuff said.