Re: TI-H: Networking

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: Networking
From: SHIVANJJS@aol.com
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:17:03 EDT
Delivered-To: ti-hardware-outgoing@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 9/26/98 11:00:25 PM !!!First Boot!!!, gussie@alaska.net
writes:

> >Grant Stockly (gussie@alaska.net) wrote:
>  >
>  >>>i have 2 modems and 2 phone lines, running windows 95, can i have 2 
> people
>  >>>call me up and create a network, play 3 player quake without the
Internet
>  >>
>  >>It would be faster to invest in some $1,500 wireless multi-point wireless
>  >>ethernet hardware...
>  >
>  >Or just invest in getting an ISP for $20 or so/month and doing the games
>  >via TCP/IP.  Besides, the wireless ethernet stuff only has a range of
>  >around 1,000 feet unless you amp it, and I don't think many people would
>  >want to void their warranty and risk screwing up equipment like that.
>  
>  No...  You use directional satellite dishes.  They are about $70.  Gives a
>  range of about 3 miles.
>  
>  You can't amp these things...they use a strange form of broadcasting that
>  would mess up an amp.
>  
>  And if you use high gain grid dishes you can get an abs max of 25 miles.
>  I'm done it 7 miles.  Multi-point.  One location is 5 miles, the other 7.
>  
where can i find more info about this?
thanks
-JJS

Follow-Ups:

Re: TI-H: Networking

From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>