<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> 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. <BR><BR>
<DIV> Claire Penketh</DIV>
<DIV>Better to have given it a go than never to have tried at all</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 23/6/11, CMA-L <I><cma-l@commedia.org.uk></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: CMA-L <cma-l@commedia.org.uk><BR>Subject: Re: [cma-l] Mains power where there ain't any!<BR>To: cma-l@commedia.org.uk<BR>Date: Thursday, 23 June, 2011, 14:33<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: Eddie Stuart <<A href="http://uk.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=eddie@kcr.fm" ymailto="mailto:eddie@kcr.fm">eddie@kcr.fm</A>><BR><BR>As a bit of extra knowledge, some Draytek routers (& no doubt those of<BR>other manufacturers) can use a mobile phone dongle for web access<BR>which would mean that you can easily have more than 1 computer web<BR>connected off-site.<BR><BR>If like us, you use broadband to send your web stream to Canstream for<BR>webcasting, this can also provide you with a cheap studio based<BR>fallback should your broadband go down.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Eddie<BR>-- <BR>KCR is the operating name of Keith Community Radio Ltd - The Friendly Sound<BR>Broadcasting to the whole of Moray & beyond on 102.8FM<BR>and to the World at <A href="http://kcr.fm/" target=_blank>http://kcr.fm</A><BR><BR>Keith Community Radio Ltd<BR>Registered in Scotland
No.SC173805<BR>Registered Office: 59a Land Street, Keith, Banffshire, AB55 5AN<BR><BR>\\<BR><BR>On 23/06/2011 12:52, Eddie Winship wrote:<BR><BR>I don’t think that I’m the first person in the world to have thought<BR>of this but I haven’t seen any reference to it here and the info might<BR>be of some use.<BR><BR>Reading4u ( www.reading4u.co.uk ) had a stall at an outdoor event last<BR>Saturday. We wanted to play recordings of some shows but we were miles<BR>from any electricity source!<BR><BR>I had one of these starter packs for my car (these thingies that have<BR>two cables with clips for when you have a flat battery) and noticed<BR>that it had a standard cigarette lighter socket as well. I also owned<BR>an inverter (a gadget that boosts a car battery output to 240 volts<BR>a/c).<BR><BR>Voila! I plugged the inverter into the starter pack and we had enough<BR>power for a laptop and a Roland powered monitor for 4 hours. Could<BR>probably have got
longer if we had used the laptop on its own battery<BR>until that ran out.<BR><BR>Cost of starter pack - £50, inverter - £25. Considering the number of<BR>outdoor events we attend, a worthwhile investment.<BR><BR>You can operate the inverter straight from a car battery but you’re<BR>not always allowed a car on-site and there is the danger of finishing<BR>up with a flat battery!<BR><BR>I guess if we had one of these dongles that give you wi-fi internet<BR>connection, we could have broadcast live!<BR><BR>Hope this helps someone, somewhere<BR><BR>Eddie<BR>-- <BR>Keith Community Radio Ltd - The Friendly Sound<BR>Registered in Scotland No.SC173805<BR>Registered Office: 59a Land Street, Keith, Banffshire, AB55 5AN<BR>_______________________________________________<BR><BR>Reply - <A href="http://uk.mc246.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=cma-l@commedia.org.uk" ymailto="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</A><BR><BR>The cma-l mailing list is a
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