From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 9:58:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6B237B621 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23621; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:58:51 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id JAA27412; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:58:47 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:58:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Laptop NICs In-Reply-To: <39635EC5.9D8226B@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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