Subj : Re: Burning pixels
To   : Tiny
From : Ed Vance
Date : Fri Sep 13 2024 03:03 pm


> Hi Ed,
> In a message to Nightfox you wrote:

> If you want to use the desktop for BBS stuff, just tether it to your
> cellphone. The feature on the phone you want is "Hotspot" turn it on, set a
> password
> tell your desktop pc to connect to the wifi network you created on the phone
> and you're online.

> That's how I connect when I'm here in the woods.

> I average 4 pics a year.  Could do without a camera on it to be honest.

> Shawn

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Since I got this cellphone in January 2024 I have been wanting to use it as a
hotspot for my home system.

I'm not wanting to use Wi-Fi because I 'think' Bluetooth would be more Secure
after Pairing the phone with my stuff 

My big idea is to use a Bluetooth dongle that has a cat-5 Ethernet socket and
connect it to the Router WAN output port, thinking I could either of my
computers to use the cellphones data connection.

I am very picky and so far my searches recently always shows Bluetooth devices
for USB and with Wi-Fi also added.
I want what I want but can't find it in my recent search results on Duckduckgo.
Back in January I saw a device that had a cat-5 jack on one end and a short
antenna on the other end but I forgot to write down who made it.
Haven't seen that thing in the results of any searches done recently.

At least I am a patient man, and only want to pay money once.
Back in the 1990's I thought if I bought a Scanner I would be able to scan
magazine pages showing program code and then use a CAT program to enter that
code into my (then) 486 computer so I wouldn't have to type the code by hand.
I got a HP 14" Scanner I paid a few bucks less than $1000 and never was able to
convert the text to code I could run.

Some years later a friend had a All-In-One Printer/Scanner that only cost a
third or fourth of what I paid. 
I was using a Ink Jet printer then and when it couldn't be repaired I replaced
it with an AIO.
I used both Scanners to Save Photos and scan other things but never figured out
how to do a CAT on what I scanned to make it something the computer could
understand.
Ed
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