Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!bellcore!ALEX.wif.ctt.bellcore.com!pc From: pc@ctt.ctt.bellcore.com Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: internet or uucp in brazil? Message-ID: <1991Mar29.011537.10303@bellcore.bellcore.com> Date: 29 Mar 91 01:15:37 GMT References: <1991Mar22.075213.5185@napc.uucp> Sender: usenet@bellcore.bellcore.com (Poster of News) Reply-To: Organization: Bellcore - Wierd Ideas Factory Lines: 14 In article <1991Mar22.075213.5185@napc.uucp> rasmus@napc.uucp (Rasmus Lerdorf) writes: > I have accepted a job in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and would like to know > where and who to contact for either direct or indirect net access. > Failing decent Internet or uucp networks, is there a satellite down there > I could pop through via an RF modem just for a mail connection? i would investigate using the packet-radio network. phil karn (ka9q@thumper.bellcore.com) was good enough to develop TCP for just such use, with a PC. of course, you should be a licensed radio amateur for this. peter clitherow, bellcore, pc@bellcore.com 444 hoes lane, room 1h-213, piscataway, nj 08854-4182 (908) 699-3322