From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Nov 29 14: 8:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from gvr.gvr.org (gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9700F154B4 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:08:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: by gvr.gvr.org (Postfix, from userid 657) id AAB82A84A; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:08:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:08:23 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij To: Doug White Cc: Dirk-Willem van Gulik , Matt Braithwaite , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: STRIP (was Re: richochet modems) Message-ID: <19991129230823.A70735@gvr.gvr.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 12:52:22PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 12:52:22PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > > > > > > On 24 Nov 1999, Matt Braithwaite wrote: > > > > > I believe the range for direct radio to radio communication is about > > > 1/4 mile with typical urban obstacles; can anybody confirm? > > > > Any guess of the frequency ? > > Frequency hopping in the 900MHz range. > > I believe you can go modem-modem even through the repeater network. As > long as the modem is set to auto-answer and you know the number, you can > call each other. > > You have to use starmode if you want to handle multiple connections, but > for single connections modem-modem is fine. Metricom also sells > (sold?) gateway units that you could use to drop onto the POTS network. Anyone know the price of such a thing? Mighht be worthwhile here at home (though I guess the frequency rabnge is already taken in Europe... does anyone know (sounds like GSM)) -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message