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Article #46Re: Summary: Who is on the net?
From: Marc Schroeder
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 15:08
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 15:08
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On the subject of possibly accessing the net with packet radio: I am not a ham, but I delved into it at one point out of interest. I was particularly fascinated by packet radio. However, at the time it seemed to me that speeds were too slow to serve any practical purpose - especially to access the internet. This all would have been back in the 80's, when most of the hams I knew were operating at ~1200 baud.. and then there was some propagation delay to be dealt with, as I recall. My question is this: Has packet radio progressed enough in the last few years to serve as a _practical_ communications medium? Could it realistically compete with more standard methods? Marc.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aunro!alberta!arcsun.arc.ab.ca!arcsun!mas From: mas@arcsun.arc.ab.ca (Marc Schroeder) Newsgroups: comp.society.development Subject: Re: Summary: Who is on the net? Message-ID: <MAS.91May29090831@arcsun.arc.ab.ca> Date: 29 May 91 15:08:31 GMT References: <1991May27.141355.978@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <1991May28.183943.16259@convex.com> <1991May28.204751.11309@news.larc.nasa.gov> Sender: nobody@arc.ab.ca (Absolutely Nobody) Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary Alberta, Canada Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov's message of 28 May 91 20:47:51 GMT