I subscribe to ricochet in san francisco, it's a great service. Beware telnet-users though, the throughput is reasonable (haven't been testing it, but I think it's ~28.8, even though it can go higher) the latency is severe! It's pretty painful to type interactively where each keypress needs a round-trip. I ended up hacking a windows app to do line-oriented telnet, which makes it less of a problem. One might also try something like TinyFugue on linux. Another problem is the battery life, I have the small, pilot-sized ricochet, and the battery can give out after only a couple hours. On the other hand, if you were only using it for email, it would probably last a lot longer. One last issue is the lack of node handoff. If you're walking/bussing/driving around, and you move out of one tranceiver's range and into another, it will NOT hand off automatically, you'll be disconnected. This could be a big problem for some, as the things are placed close together (I think I read every square mile)? > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Stone [mailto:] > Sent: Monday, April 27, 1998 3:34 PM > To: Federico > Cc:
> Subject: wireless modem providers > > > Frederico <
> said: > > >... > >[warning!: I am going off on a slight tangent now...] > > > >I was going to subscribe to the Bell-Atantic (east coast bell) wireless > >data service, which gives unlimited wireless data link for <$60/month. > >... > > For those who live in the DC area, check out Ricochet's wireless > modems before you sign up with Bell Atlantic. Their coverage is > still pretty spotty, but if you're lucky enough to live in a city > that they cover (DC, SF, and Seattle so far, according to their > web page), you get unlimited 56K access for only $30 a month or > $300 a year. http://www.ricochet.net/ricochet > > -Ken >
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