[cma-l] Mains power where there ain't any!

[claire penketh]

 Yep, we've used our netgear router with a 3G dongle when our rather useless phone and broadband providers ( phone Coop) accidently cut us off couple of times, and we successfully streamed on the net for over a week. 


 Claire Penketh
Better to have given it a go than never to have tried at all
 

--- On Thu, 23/6/11, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:


From: CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Mains power where there ain't any!
To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Date: Thursday, 23 June, 2011, 14:33


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From: Eddie Stuart <eddie at kcr.fm>

As a bit of extra knowledge, some Draytek routers (& no doubt those of
other manufacturers) can use a mobile phone dongle for web access
which would mean that you can easily have more than 1 computer web
connected off-site.

If like us, you use broadband to send your web stream to Canstream for
webcasting, this can also provide you with a cheap studio based
fallback should your broadband go down.

Regards,

Eddie
-- 
KCR is the operating name of Keith Community Radio Ltd - The Friendly Sound
Broadcasting to the whole of Moray & beyond on 102.8FM
and to the World at http://kcr.fm

Keith Community Radio Ltd
Registered in Scotland No.SC173805
Registered Office: 59a Land Street, Keith, Banffshire, AB55 5AN

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On 23/06/2011 12:52, Eddie Winship wrote:

I don’t think that I’m the first person in the world to have thought
of this but I haven’t seen any reference to it here and the info might
be of some use.

Reading4u ( www.reading4u.co.uk ) had a stall at an outdoor event last
Saturday. We wanted to play recordings of some shows but we were miles
from any electricity source!

I had one of these starter packs for my car (these thingies that have
two cables with clips for when you have a flat battery) and noticed
that it had a standard cigarette lighter socket as well. I also owned
an inverter (a gadget that boosts a car battery output to 240 volts
a/c).

Voila! I plugged the inverter into the starter pack and we had enough
power for a laptop and a Roland powered monitor for 4 hours. Could
probably have got longer if we had used the laptop on its own battery
until that ran out.

Cost of starter pack - £50, inverter - £25. Considering the number of
outdoor events we attend, a worthwhile investment.

You can operate the inverter straight from a car battery but you’re
not always allowed a car on-site and there is the danger of finishing
up with a flat battery!

I guess if we had one of these dongles that give you wi-fi internet
connection, we could have broadcast live!

Hope this helps someone, somewhere

Eddie
-- 
Keith Community Radio Ltd - The Friendly Sound
Registered in Scotland No.SC173805
Registered Office: 59a Land Street, Keith, Banffshire, AB55 5AN
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