save money with fast connection

[v]

what do YOU think about this...?

whenever I am travelling, gprs cost in Europe is a big issue, so for my applications (manymanymany mails) gprs does not work economically.

so i had the following idea:

from abroad I send a mail via sms to my (home-)office computer.
this triggers my homoffice modem calling me under my numer in my hotel. (number could be included in the sms)

my XDA II is connected to a bluetooth modem which is in auto-answer mode... picks up... beeeeeeeeep connects an IP transparent protocol and...

bingo...

as my PC@home acts like a gateway through broadband, my XDA II sees the world with web connection (pop3, smtp, nntp - younameit)

benefit:

my PC modem can call almost every hotel phone for a couple of cents per minute - worldwide.

compare this with a couple of bucks per MB GPRS in Europe!

who knows the software componets needed?


Regards
v

[ansaar99]

sounds great, tell me where to download it once youve written it! :lol:

[v]

:D

I am willing to pay for the solutionas well, anybody else?

v

[SmokeMasta]

the idea is ok but it prolly wont work in reality since GPRS out of your coutry is only expensive with prepaid.
and prepaid has the disadvantage when im out of my country i gotta pay it from the border so for example :

dude 1 lives in the netherlands and calls dude 2.
dude 2 is on vacation in somewhere in europe.
dude 1 only pays upto the border the rest of way costs dude 2 his prepaid cash.

[Peter Poelman]

the idea is ok but it prolly wont work in reality since GPRS out of your coutry is only expensive with prepaid.
Nope, GPRS roaming is expensive no matter what. You would not believe the rates these thieves charge.

The idea of calling to the hotel is great, and the bluetooth modem is a nice touch. I would add a foldable keyboard to almost get the full benefits of a well-connected notebook PC.

As far as the software components: receiving the SMS on your home computer takes a GSM phone connected to the computer, some means of receiving SMS on a regular line (offered in some countries, e.g. Germany), or some service that receives the SMS for you and turns it into an E-mail. Your own provider probably offers this already.

Then when you receive the message, you'd need to dial out. Under Linux/FreeBSD/*nix you would then have procmail (if the SMS comes in as a mail) kick off a PPP dial-out script that takes the phone number as an argument.

There's probably an easy windows scripting way of doing this. The Outlook 'Rules wizard' has an option called 'run a script' which looks like a good starting point if you can turn the SMS into an E-mail. Any Windows scripting gods to take it from here?

[Jos]

I think v doesn't mean to call his mobile, but a normal number in a hotel where an analog modem is hooked up to the XDA through bluetooth.

You could use the call back function of a RAS server achieve this.

You call from the hotel to your home server, enter the number where the RAS server has to call back to and you're up and running.

But the speed would be pretty low, even with a V90 modem.

Since I don't have a BT modem, I can' test it...