Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:26:24 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: Ricochet modem by Metricom Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961105172256.4315u-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.847241716.List@journeyman.pinpt.com>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > > Hmmm, not according to what I understand. The modems are 100kBps > > for the data xfer but their network goes out of a T1. > > Now this is only what I understand from what the tech over at Metrocom > told me and the paperwork I got on it before I signed up but: > > They have a T1 connection to the internet. Their cluster hubs could > transmit data faster than the standard antennas to bounce data (They were > not to specific, but it sounded like ISDN connections to me). Their area > networks (Hopping from ministation to ministation) was a 100kbps network > that they were going to expand. The more people on the 100kbps network > the slower each one of them would be (The water down a hose with holes > idea.) > > But it's not a 100kbps network for the whole bay, its smaller areas so > that they do not impact each other. I am lucky to get 9600bps on mine in > down town San Jose. I went to a con where I saw a few people with them > and a telnet session I was using was going more like 2400bps. > > Once again, this is just from the info a friend and I were able to get > out of their techs when we called about speed problems. From what they told me, both tech support and also the UC Berkeley on campus demonstration, it's the modem has a raw data rate of 100kBps but the modem does about 28.8k performance. Then each small group of receivers connect to Metricom on a T1 then the Metricom connection to the net via AlterNet/UUNet is what I don't know... I'm in Chinatown San Francisco and I get about 36kBps throughput... Their techs aren't very informative it seems about their service. Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin
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