RE: [Nolug] wireless cloud project using ham radio

Hi Joey.

I saw a press release from Verizon the other day that they are starting to
implement 500Kbps Internet links via cell phone technology. David Portwood
can probably fill us in.

John

    John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf
Of Joey Kelly
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:51 PM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: Re: [Nolug] wireless cloud project using ham radio

<snip>

>
> Joey,
> I know a guy in St. Rose that has a pathetic setup (that works) which he
> operates speratically to allow offshore hams to access the internet and
> e-mail through a BBS/text messaging type system.

Yeah, that's called "packet", and it's dog-slow. What I'm talking about is
more along the lines of 1 Mbps, at the very least.

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous."
 --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
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