drbyte's Journal: Wirelessly yours

I tell you, I dream of the day we can do things totally wirelessly. Access the Internet from the shitter, on your Handera PDA, and IRC and ICQ from there, instead of say reading an e-book or something.

The day is near. WLAN technology is taking up to new heights... And I'm getting excited. UCSD bus riders make speedy Net connection was an article that got me thinking and I realise that I'm not far away from being wired in a wireless world.

In Malaysia, I already used to get on the Internet while commuting on the LRT or on a bus, via my Palm and my cell phone. Long gone are the days of IR, where line-of-sight would be required - heck, now they have Bluetooth, and my phone can reside happily in my pocket!

What can be better than that? A fast WLAN connection at 2.4mbps! Alas, that I'll have to wait for.... I know I have to wait for it. In Malaysia, a couple (or is it one?) Starbucks outlet has WLAN access in it at the moment - one.

And here in Australia, WLAN is still slow to take off. Monash still is in the stages, planning to have WLAN over its Clayton campus, and target completion date would be 2002-2003. So, thats still quite a while to wait for it.

As for Malaysia, I can only dream...I doubt it'll exist anytime soon.

Why am I not at UCSD? ;-)