[Xastir] Today's activities

Jerry Chamberlin jerryc at netlab.org
Wed Jul 9 10:25:19 EDT 2003


My Son has Sprint Vision, 69 month.
Son has PC to phone cable.
Unlimited PC to Intermnet at up to 112K (future higher sppeds)
Vision on phone to findu even faster and works.
Have even tested with netmeeting, not to bad.


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Alan Crosswell wrote:

> I eval'd an aircard for a month until the service provider wanted me to start 
> paying for the service at $100/month.
> 
> I hope you were the *passenger* when you were doing the cvs update:)
> /a
> 
> Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> > Just for fun, you might want to snag the track for n5jxs-8 from FindU. 
> > This afternoon, WB5BBW and I loaded up 3 PC's (1 Windows, 2 Linux) and 
> > set off to do some testing.  I was tracking and linked into the network 
> > using a Sierra Wireless AirNet 550 1xRTT card; Kurt was doing large-file 
> > transfers (800k-10M) using similar hardware, under Windows and Linux.
> > 
> > While I was driving between Conroe and Huntsville, TX, on Interstate 45, 
> > I did a CVS update, and compiled, installed and restarted xastir.  To 
> > the latest CVS.
> > 
> > Curt, the redraw stuff is cool.
> > 
> > All the while, we were following our progress on the local GPS attached 
> > via serial port.  And viewing the results using Tigermaps with all the 
> > bells and whistles turned on.
> > 
> > It was pretty cool.
> > 
> > For those interested, the typical FTP transfer rate was 8-8.5 
> > kBytes/sec, or, 60-75 kbits/sec per card...
> > 
> > 73, gerry
> 
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