How about hacking 49mhz or 900mhz cordless telephones to run on a simplex
freq. then using a packet modem running a tcp/ip protocol back to your
homebase? Of course the programming would be way above me but if I could
afford the hardware I could possibly hack something together.
-James, N9XLC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Puffer <
>
To: Alexander <
>; <>
Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Wireless internet connection?
>
>
>Alexander wrote:
>
>> What about the unlicensed SS systems? Keeping a spread spectrum rig on a
wearable for long
>> range use seems like it would be a bear, but how about low-power (500mW)
for local transmission
>> to a high-power ``backbone'', like the cellular phone system? This
wouldn't require license(s),
>> cryptography could be applied, and it would allow real-time links (ie.
tunneled IP, or
>> whatever). What do you guys think?
>>
>> Alexander
>
> I sent this pipedream to Alexander but it could be fun to talk about
>What I would build if I were King is:
>
>I am going to start with the upper level parts of the plan a work down. in
this system there would
>be two types of stations fixed and moble.
>
>Routing would be based on a system using something like GPS positions for
>fix units. Some fixed units would have servers conected to them for moble
units to update there
>positions with. Each device would stay in contact with its nabers. It would
keep track or its fixed
>nabers and any mobles that have spoken to it.
>
>When a fixed wanted to send data to a fixed unit they would simpy send out
a
>routing request and which would find on all paths its way to the location
and back. It could then
>comunicate haveing a route. Of course the other fixed would also have a
route. There could be all
>sorts of tweeks to make things more efective like limmiting the number of
hops or
>suggesting a path.
>
>If a moble wanted to talk to a fixed they would first set up a relationship
>with a fixed then follow the same process. If they moved out of range the
>would have to set up a new relationship with a new fixed and also set up a
forward my packets
>with the old unit.
>
>Finding a moble woudl be the hard part a fixed would contact a moble server
that the moble in
>question would bekeeping updated then it would be able to set up a
connection the fixed near the
>moble than with the moble
>
>data would be sent by store and forward but there could also be cut-through
>stations that could move it faster.
>
>Now the hardware, units would find there nabers through all sorts of media
the
>easy ones would be the wired connected others could use the switched
>networks and still others would use small chunks of spectrum were there was
>no regulation or where low power was ok. Units could make use of things
like
>inferred or microwaves where they were possable. The internet could carry
>traffic a lot of the time. we could even hitch rides on power lines and
>other conducters (if the other shoe drops) it would be up to the
>comunicating people to secure the comunications. This would have a problem
>with localizing the users but that could be cut down by anonymos points
that
>would proxy people if they wished.
>
>I bandwidth would be vearable from place to place but this is supposed to
be a gerrila system no a
>comercial system.
>
>Of course you would want to be able to use gateways and from the internet.
>people could setup there own or they could join clubs (like that amature
>repeter clubs) or use public gateways. Since the bandwidth would be spotyit
would not be of mutch
>use to the corprats. It would also be better to have a mail server at home
and talk to it rather
>than trying to do everthing on your back.
>
>I would expect that if such a system was to grow it would end up being a
organic mess but peoples
>interest in having it work would tend to keep it limping along. There would
be people that would
>setup private nodes and if they bothered people they would suffer social
pressures to conform. The
>system would be unregulated and unregualtable the more the goverment tryed
to stop it the more arms
>it could grow.
>
>This is my pipe dream
>I an not an analog type of guy so I may be wissiling in the wind but this
is
>where I would start.
>
>Your thoughts?
>Charles Puffer
>
>
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