Ok disregard my last post I found the answer while researching it more and I'm a little perplexed that this would use your home internet service and allow to you access it from a laptop or smartphone when your away. Having worked in the internet industry I've never heard of a system that can do this nor can I find anything that remotely comes close so is Uniden trying to be a trend setter. Now onto my next point I asked a friend who is a computer science professor with a phd in the field if this is possible and he said depending on the ISP. My ISP if you leave your computer on and don't use it the dsl connection will go into sleep mode so data isn't transferred. They do this because some customers have limited data plans. I remember 15 years ago while working for a ISP if they detected a piggybacked device( a non computer or server) then they disconnected you, do ISPs still do that?
What Uniden is trying to do is not that much of tend setter and it is not that complicated regarding the Internet connection. Using Dynamic DNS or in their case it appears they want to use a centralized server that the scanner point to in order to make a connection between the scanner and App on a portable device. In a direct connection to say your scanner in a mobile environment it would be a simple Ad Hoc wireless connection not requiring or utilizing a router. But I maintain that also providing a hardwired interface would give the end users a far more reliable, stable and flexible platform that would allow used to set up a DECENT router in a mobile environment with more powerful "command scene" connectivity and distance capability for a LAN connection to a scanner in a fixed mobile installation. If Uniden would have gone down this road, at least the Apps would have been working and vetted to some extent and there would have been at least LAN based connectivity that was working at this moment.
Regarding DSL or other "substandard" Internet connection means that some may unfortunately still have to suffer with in this decade, I think you are somewhat thinking of "dial on demand" technology where the ISP connection would drop if there was not active traffic after a period of time. As far as I am aware, this "dial on demand" type of connection, even via DSL has not been regularly used for over 10 years in the US and could easily be circumvented with a properly configured DSL modem and/or router that keeps the ISP connection continuously connected.
There may be some very RURAL and REMOTE locations in the US that may still have some of this "substandard" internet connectivity and my condolence to anyone that does not have real technology available to them. Yes I am spoiled, I have fiber optic Internet connections and my routes take me not far from where I live where about 70% of the world Internet traffic traverses.
No disrespect to your professor friend, but he likely needs to catch up with the times a bit. Things change rather rapidly in the Technology field and 5 years is likely like a generation of development and transformation. Time for him to get out into the field and see what is going on these days!
