WebRacer - Anyone used/own one?

[RedM]

My dad has rung me about this gizmo.

 

http://www.planon.com/webracer.php

 

Looks alright but anyone know anything more about it?

[carl0s]

from the requirements list:

- Planon server fee of $9.99/month to utilize our technology that provides speeds up to 10 times faster that

dramatically reduces your data consumption which can reduce your cost on your data plan.

 

which basically sounds like a proxy server which will do on-the-fly recompression of Jpeg and other media formats. I guess it works, but in my eyes it's a cludge.

 

and the connectivity is Bluetooth, so if you have a 3G Bluetooth phone, you'll get up to 384kbit/sec. If you don't, it'll be ~50kbit/sec at most (GPRS), and 9.6kbit/sec (GSM).