Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 21:01:11 +0200 From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Laptop NICs Message-ID: <20000705210111.H28124@snoopy.brwn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007050947010.7019-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:58:47AM -0700 References: <39635EC5.9D8226B@gorean.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007050947010.7019-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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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
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