T-Mobile's Hot Spot Routing

[Centinall]

I just spent about 2hrs on the phone with my dad helping him do the complicated task of copying files. Very difficult as we all know.

He travels around the country and needs his computer to draw up contracts, etc... I was recommending to him that he get T-Mobile Hot Spot so that he can use the internet and not have to worry about dial-up and where to plug in, and all of the other nightmares that come with dial up.

This would be especially good so that I could use real VNC (Virtual Network Client) to log into his comp and make any changes that he needs, or whatever.

Does anyone know if T-Mobile's Hot Spot Routers will allow this? Does T-Mobile give you an internal IP address (like 192.168.0.xxx) or an external one? I know if you want to use VNC with your home router you need to set up the virtual host, so I wonder if it's the same for Hot Spot routers?

Anyone use/like Hot Spot?

 

[Thoreau]

Originally posted by: Centinall
I just spent about 2hrs on the phone with my dad helping him do the complicated task of copying files. Very difficult as we all know.

He travels around the country and needs his computer to draw up contracts, etc... I was recommending to him that he get T-Mobile Hot Spot so that he can use the internet and not have to worry about dial-up and where to plug in, and all of the other nightmares that come with dial up.

This would be especially good so that I could use real VNC (Virtual Network Client) to log into his comp and make any changes that he needs, or whatever.

Does anyone know if T-Mobile's Hot Spot Routers will allow this? Does T-Mobile give you an internal IP address (like 192.168.0.xxx) or an external one? I know if you want to use VNC with your home router you need to set up the virtual host, so I wonder if it's the same for Hot Spot routers?

Anyone use/like Hot Spot?

This is not something that I know to be fact, but I would be *very* surprised if any hotspot provided publicly accessible/routable IP addresses. Just the cost alone of the IP's and the hassle IANA puts people through now to 'justify' blocks of IP addresses would be a huge hassle and money-sink for hotspot operators.