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Re: wanted: wireless magic tricks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Maxwell)
Thu Aug 16 12:31:36 2001

Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:26:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, John Kristoff wrote:

> Rent a U-Haul for about $39.95, put the tapes or disks in the back drive
> 20 miles.  Even in rush hour on LSD you should make the 45 minute
> deadline no problem.  2.5 GB is nothing, the client could get 2.5 TB or
> more if they wanted that way.  How's that for throughput?  Latency kind
> of sucks though.  :-)

Motorcycle with a bag of CDRs would be a better fit for this application.

A kid with a bike would cost a lot less per month then any typical data
option. :)


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