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To: bareford101

There should be a ham radio version of the internet.
Didn’t usenet used to be a separate entity?


20 posted on 12/27/2010 8:53:47 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Still is, but you now pay for the service.


22 posted on 12/27/2010 9:00:01 PM PST by doc1019 (Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Usenet was always internet based (if you also count its precursor, ARPAnet).

It is possible to route TCP/IP over Ham radio on various bands using packet radio technology; this was being done already 25 years ago. Therefore, hooking Ham radio LANs to the internet was possible in principle. However, the bandwidth was too low, IMHO, to be useful.

A possible future apocalyptic scenario could see nets using unauthorized low-power short-hop point-to-point microwave links. There would have to be adaptive routers to handle the constant appearance and disapperance of the nodes in the network.


38 posted on 12/27/2010 10:51:55 PM PST by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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