[vdr] Re: OT: Flat Antenna useable?

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Rene Bartsch schrieb:
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> Am Mit, 2002-05-29 um 22.56 schrieb Rainer Zocholl:
> > ulope@gmx.de(Ulrich Petri)  29.05.02 20:11
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> > Once upon a time Ulrich Petri shaped the electrons to say...
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> > >Christian Berger wrote:
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> > >>
> > >> 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)

Servus
  Casandro
 

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