MW800 & Internet

PhillyPhoto · Post by **PhillyPhoto** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:25 am

I was looking at these a little closer, and was wondering if anyone uses a service such as Sprint for wireless internet with it. I have a friend that has the aircard in his toughbook, but there's no PCMIA slot on this computer. I would assume you use the WWAN slot, but has anyone setup this to work on a Sprint network? Is it anything more advanced than just setting up some software supplied by Sprint?

jmr061 · Post by **jmr061** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:51 am

The MW800 has one PCMCIA slot under the flip up door on the front of the cpu. I use a sprint card in a Kyocera KR1 wireless router. You can either add 802.11 to the mw800 or connect the KR1 to the LAN port on the back of the cpu.

Jason

PhillyPhoto · Post by **PhillyPhoto** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:00 am

OK, thanks for the info

jmr061 · Post by **jmr061** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:02 am

If you want to add 802.11 to it, I bought a nice wireless CF card from a company on the net. I can give you the link. Its a little over $100 bucks if I remember right. Not to mention you can add GPS to it cheap enough as well.

Jason

motorola_otaku · Post by **motorola_otaku** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:36 am

KB9KST wrote:If you want to add 802.11 to it, I bought a nice wireless CF card from a company on the net. I can give you the link. Its a little over $100 bucks if I remember right.

Does it have an external antenna connection?

jmr061 · Post by **jmr061** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:53 am

The MW800 has an internal CF card slot for a wireless card. Depends on the wireless card you get. The one I got is 802.11b/g and you add antennas to it so you can get whatever kind of antenna you want. I ran both out (fits in the GPS and WLAN ant holes, pull the plugs) and I put on wlan router type antennas.

Jason