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For Surfers, a Roving Hot Spot That Shares

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:47:04 -0400

By JOHANNA JAINCHILL

When the Sunningdale Country Club in Scarsdale, N.Y., opened its gates
last week to a location shoot for "The Sopranos," a new fixture was on
display in the mobile dressing rooms - a roving Wi-Fi hot spot.

With a device called the Junxion Box, the production company can set
up a mobile multiuser Internet connection anywhere it gets cellphone
service. The box, about the size of a shoebox cover, uses a cellular
modem card from a wireless phone carrier to create a Wi-Fi hot spot
that lets dozens of people connect to the Internet.

The staff members of "The Sopranos," squeezed into two trailer
dressing rooms, needed only the Junxion Box and their laptops to
exchange messages and documents with the production offices at
Silvercup Studios in Queens.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/technology/circuits/14share.html?ex=1278993600&en=56a56edcee958205&ei=5090

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