From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 1 17:42:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA25840 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:42:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA25822 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:42:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA05094; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:43:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:43:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Veggy Vinny cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ricochet modem by Metricom In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Veggy Vinny 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 a antenna hanging down attached to the light pole. The new phase modems have a larger antenna too which really helps connectivity. > Hmmm, what about on a desktop with a 16550 UART? No prob. My 486/75 has a 16550 and it cooks. > > > Hmmm, do you just use a three digit number to reach U of Oregon > > > like the number**ppp or is the number longer than that and is the > > > performance different if you just used the ricochet internet service > > > instead of the university gateway? > > > > Yup. I haven't used Ricochet's service so I can't compare them. All I > > know is that the University is free and Metricom's is not :) > > Not for UC Berkeley since I think students get it for $29.95/month > with the modem rental included... While the normal rate is $29.95 + > $10/month for the modem... What are you guys paying there? Same rate. I meant that there is no additional charge above the modem itself for the network service. > > We have found that some monitors and other hardware are not well shielded, > > and the radio transmissions do interfere with them. There is a Mac with > > an older display that has this problem. The best thing to do is move the > > radio. You can buy a 10 ft cord from Metricom so you can place the modem > > further away from the problem hardware. > > Hmmm, the only problem here is my modem can be next to my computer > case but my modem is close to the window now, does the performance > decrease if i put it farther away from the window? Depends on what your buildings are made of. :) We have largely concrete & steel, the world's best shielding. So we have to stay near windows. Depends on where you are in relation to a receiver. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major