[Info-vax] US Broadband

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <mefblh$tki$1 at pechter.eternal-september.org>,
	pechter at S20.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) writes:
> In article <cltq80Fstu5U4 at mid.individual.net>,
> Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>>
>>This house came with a generator.  The previous owner said they only had
>>to use it once.  We just went thru the worst winter I have seen in a while
>>(last tuesday's prediction was 0"-1" of snow - I had 7" snow followed by
>>nearly an inch of ice) and I haven't had to use it yet.
>>
> 
> When the nearest substation's completely flooded out and under water, electric
> delivery becomes problematic.
> 
> The 13 day wait until restoration with under 40 degree night temporatures
> My service comes in underground so there weren't any wires down.
> First Energy's spent millions doing the remediation to the wires after
> Sandy by doing some major cutting of trees around the local wires.
> 
> The outages caused by lines down were all fixed in under a week.
> I'm still debating the whole house natural gas generator...
> 
> Meanwhile -- your connectivity can be resolved for UUCP over ham radio 
> perhaps.

Cute thought.  Actually, I was running (in a lab environment) UUCP over
1200 baud 2 meter packet radio over 30 years ago.  Works fine.  Could
work better with only a couple of minor tweaks to the firmware in the
TNC's.  Wouls also work better in boxes using "Howie Code" rather than
the normal AX.25 user interface or NetROM.  Would probably have worked
really well over ROSE but that, sadly, never went very far.  (to bring
this more on topic for the group and to make the DECNET advocates happy,
ROSE was an OSI based implementation and uses addressing just like the
phone system.  Truly sad it never got anywhere in the real world.

I also had a 1200 baud 2 meter INTERNET connection between my home in
Luzerne, PA and my office at the University of Scranton in Scranton,
PA, about 12 miles LOS, using KA9Q TCP/IP.

But........    All of that was controled labaratory experiment the use
of ham radio for any of this beyond very controlled circumstances would
be very illegal.  Not to mention the problem of trying to download the
latest FreeBSD ISO over a 1200baud half duplex link.  :-)

bill

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Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>