[H-GEN] A humbug WAN

[excal at kermit.humbug.org.au]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs <excal at kermit.humbug.org.au>)

I think a little problem in using a packet radio network is depending on
the location of some emember. ie.. they live in a ditch, they may not get
line-of-sight to another reciever.  If we are using a lower frequency
transciever this shouldnt be a problem at all.. Finding free public
fequencies that are not being used may be another.. But im sure there is
and Id be definatly interested in participating is caosts are too high.
If I can get my Laser Transmitter all fullt working (and built).  It could
leave us with something else to play with

Marc Dergacz
dergma at uq.net.au

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Robert Brockway wrote:

> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)
> 
> Hi all.  Last week i came up with an idea for the club.  A Wide area
> network.  I'm currently looking into the costs of 9k6 and 64k radio modem
> units.
> 
> I mentioned this last night and after getting a positive reponse I decided
> to put it to the list.
> 
> How many people would be prepared to pay for hardware to get them
> connected to a humbug wan?  It'd be using ax25 I imagine. All connected
> members would be on a broadcast network.
> 
> It could be used for many things...
> 
> - online gaming (best for the 64k option :)
> 
> - sharing resources.  Get around the volume charging that many users
>   are stuck with.  Ie, why d/l a file over a volume charged link if
>   someone on the wan has it available.  Offer things on the web and via
>   ftp over the wan.
> 
> - possibility of wan users using it as their isp.  A number of club
>   members now have permanent links so this is a possibility if they
>   conencted to the wan.  I won't persue this one anymore here as we have
>   many members who work for isps and discussing the merits of different
>   isps has always been off topic.
> 
> - a learning experience - there could be valuable experience in this
>   exercise.
> 
> I'm sure there are other uses. 
> 
> My understanding of ax25 is limited but growing.  The ips are allocated
> from a block of ips available for ax25 networks I believe.  Or we could
> use private IPs and use connect the wan to the net via ip masquerade of
> NAT.
> Cheers,
> 	-Robert
> 
> --Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
>                                 robert.brockway at uq.net.au
> 			 WWW:   http://www.oc.humbug.org.au/~robert
> 			 Founder of HUMBUG (http://www.humbug.org.au)
> 
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