At 09:33 PM 4/4/98 -0500, Jeremy Lemieux wrote: > >At 10:08 PM 4/4/98 +1000, Mitra wrote: >>At 02:36 AM 4/3/98 -0500, Jeremy Lemieux wrote: >>>If the former is the case, that coverage isn't bad...Almost every region >>>has at least _some_ coverage. Granted, it's nowhere near continuous, but >>>it would provide links within several days' travel from most any spot (Give >>>or take). >> >>I don't know about anyone else, but "several days travel" is not what I'm >>looking for when I travel, I can find a phone-line in less time than that ! > >Sure, but then you have to actually physically connect to the line, for >one, and have some local number you can call for two. The latter is doable >with some services, I guess, but the former is just not very appealing. But . ... I think that is why we are looking for a wireless method, a wireless method that connects here and now is useful to me, a wireless method that is a day-or-two away (such as ricochet at some university) is not. - Mitra (Currently dialed in through a friends ISP account, on another friends phone line, in Australia) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mitra Internet Consultinghttp://earth.path.net/mitra ==== In Australia - see http://earth.path.net/mitra/contact.htm **** Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved ******
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