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How do I make a mobile Wifi connection?
I am on a committee that is putting together an emergency response vehicle that will provide some basic services to victims of natural disasters. We would like to make the trailer that we pull to the site a Wifi hot spot. What are the various ways we could accomplish this?
The wifi will be ancillary to the main mission of the trailer. The main purpose of the trailer is easy, the "extra" stuff is prooving more difficult.
3 Answers
- adavielLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
That's kind of interesting.
If you got a high-power wifi access point like they use at campgrounds and marinas, it would have a good range (hundreds of metres). You could set up a captive registration page like they have at hotels - anyone connecting gets your website instead of whatever they entered. So you could provide basic information to people about the disaster - where to find water etc. - as well as collecting data back from them, like who they are and if they need help, finding family members etc.
If you had a 3G modem or a satellite modem you could also give them internet access once they'd registered. You might need to do traffic shaping of some kind - having dozens of people trying to get on Facebook at the same time through a slow link would just not work
- Anonymous9 years ago
First thing victims of disaster need food and shelter more that Internet try useing 4g or 3G services
- 9 years ago
you can try using a 3G or 4G Hotspot modem. That is really the only other way that I can think of. You could try also getting a mobile router, but that would only give network access without an internet connection.
