Newsgroups: comp.society.development Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!hobbit.gandalf.ca!alayne From: alayne@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Alayne McGregor) Subject: Re: Summary: Who is on the net? Message-ID: <1991May31.164812.4629@hobbit.gandalf.ca> Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd., Nepean, Ontario References: <1991May28.183943.16259@convex.com> <1991May28.204751.11309@news.larc.nasa.gov> Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 16:48:12 GMT Lines: 25 In article mas@arcsun.arc.ab.ca (Marc Schroeder) writes: > >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? The Packet Working Group of the Ottawa Amateur Radio Society is selling 56K baud packet radio modems, which run TCP/IP over AX.25. Considerably faster than 1200 baud. (I'm not an amateur radio operator nor a member of the group, so please don't ask technical questions. I can refer you to members if you're interested.) Alayne McGregor alayne@gandalf.ca