Wifi through Irda

Hi
I have a modern pocket pc with Windows Mobile 2003 SE, and i have a philips velo 500 with CE2.0.

Is it possible to somehow access the internet through my pocket pc by irda?
I tried to connect to it but it failed.

Steven

not really possible. why not stick a wifi card in your velo 500?

I would have no idea where to get one for such an old device!

anywhere ebay.
some examples that should work:

orinoco / lucent wavelan / agere (different brands for the same card - but: orinoco proxim and avaya is not recommended)
senao (cf and pcmcia too)
dlink dcf660w
maybe even pretec cf wlan too.

but dont forget to leave the ac adapter plugged in!! the AA's cant handle wifi for more than a couple of mins

But first you'd need the "V-Module" in order to have a PC Card slot, according to this review:
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/sep98/velo.asp

You can connect to the Internet over IR. You just need to setup a connection to your PC over IR and then setup a proxy server to route the Internet requests back and forth. Doing that via the PPC however is probably not going to be an easy feat - while technically possible, in practice, I don't know of any application which implements it.

Example Proxy server setup
http://www.hpcfactor.com/support/cesd/c/0018.asp

I've never heard of proxy software for a handheld, though if a mobile phone is willing to dial out and connect a handheld to the internet, why wouldn't a PPC?

How does the Windows '03 PPC connect to the internet? Through a wireless router?

It's a very intriguing idea (I have connected my J-720 to the 'net via proxy; it's a thing that you do once, because it's cool, and then I stopped doing it since there's really no other point I could find )

Jake

Windows CE supports multipoint routing, and Internet Connection Sharing. It also supports the ethernetIR - however none of these three things are integrated into the platform releases, only options for Core releases. Therefore one would need to write their own WinSockCE Proxy server application as well as as get the PPC and HPC to talk over IR through a Serial Cable, and then have the PPC route the serial connection through to the ActiveSync Passthrough/Modem/LAN

That sounds like a major undertaking. Cheaper and easier, I imagine, just to get a mobile phone with GPRS. That's how I connect my Velo. With the legendary HPCFactor Generic IrDA driver

Jake

ah, so philips didnt fix this with the velo 500

just look at my bsquare, it won't... at least not out of the box... even though it is supposed to be a mobile phone

I didn't know BSquare was supposed to be a phone as well. Cool, but not too much, I guess, if it doesn't work.

Jake

it IS a phone, it just doesn't work as a modem currently (afaik, etc...)