On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 2:01 AM Peter Southwood <peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> wrote:

Will this work on an Android tablet?


There are schools e.g. in Mexico that use Android tablets in the hands of their students to connect by Wi-Fi to their Internet-in-a-Box.

As many as 32 tablets/devices can connect simultaneously to these Internet-in-a-Box hotspots that are commonly built with a $35 Raspberry Pi 3 B+.

That is almost always the best way to get started — install Internet-in-a-Box on a $35 Raspberry Pi 3 B+ or similar.


Of course some prefer to install Internet-in-a-Box on an old laptop or PC (and possibly some tablets might work too?!)

Key Questions:

- Can your hardware run Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 9/10, or Raspbian?

- Can its internal Wi-Fi run as an Access Point, to be hassle-free for your community?

- Does its internal Wi-Fi support enough simultaneous Wi-Fi connections to be hassle-free for your community?  (e.g. Raspberry Pi supports 32 simultaneous Wi-Fi connections; whereas Intel NUC mini PCs generally support 12 simultaneous Wi-Fi connections.)

See http://FAQ.IIAB.IO to see others' hardware/OS implementation recommendations.


(If anyone has success installing Internet-in-a-Box on a tablet, please let others know — feel free to directly edit the MediaWiki-based FAQ above — with thanks to One Laptop Per Child that is hosting it!)


Cheers,

Peter

 

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Subject: [Offline-l] ANNC: Internet-in-a-Box 6.7 lets you drag+drop Wikipedia, Sugarizer, Maps, Apps, Etc!

 

Announcing the release of Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 !

 

Please use it to "steal" the Internet's crown jewels and craft your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA using a $35 Raspberry Pi computer, or any old laptop.

 

Our HOW-TO videos show you how to customize your Internet-in-a-Box "knowledge hotspot" — for your school, your clinic, your library, your entire region — or your very own family.

 

Install Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 using its 1-line installer to transform an old laptop into a "learning palace" for a developing world school, that urgently needs this today!

 

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