From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 14 09:20:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA28074 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 09:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28069 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 09:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id JAA10273; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 09:24:43 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 09:24:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199706141524.JAA10273@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: "Mike O'Brien" CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Internet In-Reply-To: <199706140810.BAA24885@anpiel.aero.org> References: <27D33135B8C@colstate.edu> <199706140810.BAA24885@anpiel.aero.org> Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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