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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:02:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com>
Cc:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Ricochet modem by Metricom 
Message-ID:  <Pine.PTX.3.95.961105140145.13095c-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.847222561.List@journeyman.pinpt.com>

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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Sean J. Schluntz wrote:

> > > > 	Oh okay, had you actually seen any of their antennas before?
> > > 
> > > Yes.  They are all over campus.  Little black boxes on the roof. :)
> > > And we have a repeater outside my dorm here:  a little white box with 
> > > antenna hanging down attached to the light pole.
> > > The new phase modems have a larger antenna too which really helps
> > > connectivity.
> > 
> > 	I wonder if the Ricochet modems will be faster later on since the
> > modem can do up to 100kBps but if you're on the campus and only see 
> 28.8k
> > then their claim isn't true.
> 
> According to the info I have on my Ricochet moden their _network_ is 
> 100kbps, not the modems.  So it is easy to get low speeds in an area 
> where there are lots of modems sharing the same 100kbps channel.

	Hmmm, not according to what I understand.  The modems are 100kBps
for the data xfer but their network goes out of a T1.

Vince
GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin





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