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Re: [PLUG] 802.11 Questions
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ian reinhart geiser wrote:
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> On Monday 17 September 2001 09:42 am, you wrote:
> > You could grab a couple used ricochet modems off of Ebay and set them up
> > in point-to-point mode. However, I'm not convinced the present driver
> > gets 128K throughput. I've been experimenting with them a little and it
> > does work, but I wouldn't promise you 128K. If you go looking, I'd
> > recommend the GS model over the newer GT. I managed to grab a pair of
> > the GT's for $30/ea on Ebay a while back.
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> i thought ricochet went out of business?
> are these internal PCI cards or what are they?
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Yes, ricochet is still in the Chapter 11 proceedings with no end in
sight yet.
The GS & GT are external modems with serial/USB interfaces. USB is
supposed to give higher throughput because of limits near 128K on a
serial line. There are a couple PCMCIA cards available, but I don't
have experience with them (but if you can find one for ~$30-50 it might
be worth playing with. Ebay had some for around $100. I couldn't
justify that price.)
The modems support a modem to modem mode called starmode which works
without the Ricochet network as long as they are in radio range. The
claim is that you can do about a mile over open ground. (So your
tradeoffs are, cheaper/slower, but much longer range than 802.11b.)
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Kevin Brosius
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