802.11 MAY be a solution though the hidden transmitter problem still bothers me. Directional antennas increase distance but limit all stations being heard. point to point works for links but I'm looking at the case of many users in a metro area sharing a common resource, probably in a partial mesh star topology (many users linked via one node who can't hear each other. Full duplex would be usefull as well and I could forsee many of the end users of this network regularly moving large files between nodes (iso images for example or installing/mirroring the latest suse) and realtime digital AV streaming would probably be an often used app. -Galt On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:50:44 +0200, Christian Mang <cmang@wegatec.de> wrote:
Hi Galt,
what do you think about commercial wlan products? Ok, it's no amateur radio, but architecture and os independent. Which distance would you reach with your solution?
73 Chris db1mcj
-----Original Message----- From: John Galt [mailto:galt.john@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 7:03 AM To: suse-ham-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-ham-e] high speed data
Is anyone implimenting high speed (1Mb/sec or greater for end users) WAN networking under amateur radio and linux or has this just died on the vine for people's refusal to use anything faster than a shared 9600 baud channel on a porly architected network.
-Galt
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