Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 09:24:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@rush.aero.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Internet Message-ID: <199706141524.JAA10273@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199706140810.BAA24885@anpiel.aero.org> References: <27D33135B8C@colstate.edu> <199706140810.BAA24885@anpiel.aero.org>
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Mike O'Brien writes w.r.t. http://insat.zoneit.com: > It's caused a considerable stir around these parts. We're trying > to figure out how they could be a fake (as in, the deposit on a board will > buy a lot of margaritas in Playa del Carmen). It looks legit. I asked > them a) howcum they can do 128Kb when CDPD normally tops out at 9600, and > b) howcum so cheep when CDPD is so usurious? > > They replied, very promptly, that a) they bond several 19.2Kb > raw CDPD (9600 is with ECC) together, and b) the CDPD carriers, despite > their rate structures, are desperate for traffic right now and were happy > to sign these folks up for deeply discounted bulk rates. Can we get any information on the interface? It'd be interesting to modify the existing lp/ppp interface to work with it. $20/mo and high throughput sounds pretty good to me. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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