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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com>
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Subject: Re: Infrared ? (a simple experiment for laptop owners...)
In-Reply-To: <4719.894134766@cloud.rain.com> from Bill Trost at "May 2, 98 11:46:06 am"
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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 12:32:11 -0400 (EDT)
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Bill Trost once stated:

=Slotted ALOHA is probably overkill for this task. You probably do not
=want to try more than two nodes in the infrared network. The reason
=is that IRdA ports have a fairly narrow beam width (30 degrees, as
=I recall), and not that great a range (3 feet +/- 3 feet). As soon
=as you add a third node, you will probably start running into hidden
=transmitter problems. ALOHA would deal with that in the simple case,
=but you more or less have to "know" that one node can reach all the
=other nodes in the network.

What if some new "hot/cool" laptop will come with IR port capable
of talking to more then one other? Should FreeBSD be limited "in
advance"?

	-mi

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