This one earned me a +10 in stupid cell phone tricks.
So, I just got my new hotness, the ATT Tilt, before we left Portland with full 3G (fast) network support. They told me this puppy was a great phone, but leave it to me to test the limits of it.
The phone connects great with the computer for browsing and getting things done, with the phone or lappy. Out here at my parents place in Modesto, they haven't discovered high-speed Internet. It's a farm thing. All we have here is dial-up, so the phone has been great because we've at least had "Edge" network speeds (for geek inclined: 256Kbit down, 128Kbit up).
Then I got sneaky...a crossover cable, some network config on the lappy, and the monster was born.
There it is my friends. Phone to PC to Xbox and Xbox Live. Granted, the latency is WAY too high (at the time of this writing: 600ms, 207Kbit down, 109Kbit up), but I was able to download a couple small things. If I were in a 3G area, I might give gaming a try (in SJ last night I had a 130ms ping with 1.2 MBit down).
Very cool, and as Andrea says, "very geeky".
See you all tomorrow when the network will hopefully be the least of our issues! :)
2 comments:
Yeah Shark, nice hack. Amazing what we'll do to get our fix on the road. See you and Andrea tomorrow.
Nice touch. Didn't see this until back home after the LAN. Let it be said you also cleared the way at the LAN for us to get on Live. All purpose Shark for all situations. Did you get that flat tire patched up for the trip home OK? Thanks for the coming down and what a great time it was. Andrea is a full champ to put up with it all. I'm sure more will be said on the Blog soon/pictures. Rossco was an insane host with everything we needed.
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