From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 12: 1:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.brwn.org (intgw1.brwn.org [196.28.127.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC31037BF7D for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willem@snoopy.brwn.org) Received: by snoopy.brwn.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BC3431D95; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 21:01:11 +0200 (SAST) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 21:01:11 +0200 From: Willem Brown To: Rick Hamell Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Laptop NICs Message-ID: <20000705210111.H28124@snoopy.brwn.org> References: <39635EC5.9D8226B@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:58:47AM -0700 X-Public-Key: http://willem.brwn.org/pubkey.txt X-Chat-Server: http://chat.brwn.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I had this URL bookmarked. I was dreaming about this once....Only to be dragged kicking and screaming back into reality. http://hydra.carleton.ca/articles/hispeed.html Regards Willem Brown On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:58:47AM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > At this point my only other option is Packet Radio, but I'd > > > need to get a ham licence for that unless I can figure out how to run it > > > in the citizen bands. :) Has anybody done this? > > > > If you mean the CB radio bands, that would be a violoation of their > > parameters. There's lots of hams doing packet radio with freebsd though, > > just check the archives. > > Well, by Citizen bands I meant 900Mhz, and the 2.3ghz (?) range, > which can both be broadcast in without a licence. I'm probally looking at > the 2.3 gig range because I want to be able to connect 20-30 miles > away. With out several transmitters and repeater stations, the 900mhz > range won't do that. The problem with the packet radio is that it's > limited to 9600 buad, *IF* that. Telnet would be fine, but any kind of > file transfers will be pretty slow. Now, if anyone has a TNC for sale > fairly cheap, I might be interested in seeing how that works. :) > > > > Rick > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ Is not that the nature of men and women -- that the pleasure is in the learning of each other? -- Natira, the High Priestess of Yonada, "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", stardate 5476.3. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message