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Re: richochet modems

The legacy ricochet is a useful tool.   I have two, one that I maintained on
metricoms system for $28.00 per month and the other I use as point to point
radio with a bread board ricochet device.
The current high speed service is overpriced.  The legacy service,
un-fortunately is no longer supported.  They have grandfarthered in all
those who previously had the service and elected not to go high speed.

The secret is that if you configure the unit correctly, you can get up to 50
kbps burst mode.   And the radios native transport is rated for 100 kbps,
but you have to subtract out re-transmits for failed packets and
administrative overhead.

The nice thing is that with a wearable I can stay connected in the bay area
and in 7 other markets for a minimum cost.

cordially

cb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Papp" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: richochet modems

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> On Thu, 3 May 2001, Kalrand wrote:
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> > It seems like several of you have acquired old richochet modems from
ebay,
> > I'm curious what people are actually using them to do. I saw Dan got his
> > working, but (IIRC) no one has mentioned any real tasks that they
preform...
>
> That would be me (Don) - I'm using mine as a test PPP link between
> two machines, with one acting as gateway to the Internet. In other words,
> cheap (but slow) wireless network.  That's one use.
>
> It's mostly of use to those of us who enjoy twisting a commercial
> product's original purpose; are interested in cheap wireless network
> access (for example, community-based access to the Internet for little to
> no money); or can easily imagine applications for wireless RS-232 (data
> aquisition, remote control, telemetry, robotics, etc).
>
> But for the average user, it's likely a big "so what?".
>
> Don P
> http://aeinnovations.com
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