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[ale] wireless lan that's not wifi?
- Subject: [ale] wireless lan that's not wifi?
- From: ALE at MaestroIT.com (Alan Dobkin)
- Date: Wed Aug 25 09:06:40 2004
- In-reply-to: <1093438095.28975.7.camel@blue>
- References: <[email protected]> <1093438095.28975.7.camel@blue>
Possibly, but GPRS is not exactly a "LAN" technology. It's used
primarily for "WAN" (Internet) connectivity through a mobile phone.
Alan
--On Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:48 AM -0400 Jim Popovitch
<jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> GPRS.
>
> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/GPRS.html
>
> -Jim P.
>
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:43, Geoffrey wrote:
>> So I'm talking to this guy yesterday and he tells me there's this
>> wireless technology out there that can be used for networking and he
>> refers to it as 'wireless lan.' Says it's not wifi and actually has
>> been around longer than wifi. Can't be bluetooth. So folks, anyone
>> know what this magical, mysterious technology is?