Date: Tue, 5 Nov 96 16:47:15 Pacific Standard Time From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com>, Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: Ricochet modem by Metricom Message-ID: <Chameleon.847241716.List@journeyman.pinpt.com> References: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961105140145.13095c-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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> > > > > Oh okay, had you actually seen any of their antennas > > > > 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 > > > > 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. Now this is only what I understand from what the tech over at Metrocom told me and the paperwork I got on it before I signed up but: They have a T1 connection to the internet. Their cluster hubs could transmit data faster than the standard antennas to bounce data (They were not to specific, but it sounded like ISDN connections to me). Their area networks (Hopping from ministation to ministation) was a 100kbps network that they were going to expand. The more people on the 100kbps network the slower each one of them would be (The water down a hose with holes idea.) But it's not a 100kbps network for the whole bay, its smaller areas so that they do not impact each other. I am lucky to get 9600bps on mine in down town San Jose. I went to a con where I saw a few people with them and a telnet session I was using was going more like 2400bps. Once again, this is just from the info a friend and I were able to get out of their techs when we called about speed problems. -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz <schluntz@pinpt.com> Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ Local Time Sent: 11/05/96 16:47:15 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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