[vdr] Re: OT: Flat Antenna useable?

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Don, 2002-05-30 um 09.16 schrieb Christian Berger:
> Rene Bartsch schrieb:
> > 
> > Am Mit, 2002-05-29 um 22.56 schrieb Rainer Zocholl:
> > > ulope@gmx.de(Ulrich Petri)  29.05.02 20:11
> > >
> > > Once upon a time Ulrich Petri shaped the electrons to say...
> > >
> > > >Christian Berger wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Well UMTS also is braindead, it'll be far to expensive to be of any
> > > >> practical use, and it's got the same problems, if you are to close
> > > >> to the base-station you'll be fried. What we really need are
> > > >> peer-to-peer systems or satellite systems.
> > 
> > Sattelites can only multicast as they are to expensive for unicast
> > (calculate costs per bandwith)! I don't think T-DSL by Sat will have a
> > long life. I used EuropeOnline two years ago and we calculated that
> > Internet by sattelite's only future is bankruptcy.
> 
> Well here we simply have to wait until we are able to use higher
> frequencies. Using satellites for private communication is usable when
> using lasers.
>  
> > But what about a solar-based WLAN-net in settlements?
> > I mean a WLan-Router every 500 meters with a solar panel ... :o)
> 
> That's a great idea, the original idea was to let each device using the
> network, beeing a router itself. The power of such routers could be
> verry low then (it actually never is higher than 1 Watt I think)
> 

German law allows only 100 Milliwatt, PC-Cards have 60 Milliwatts.

But we're going to offtopic ...

Rene