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To: MangoBoy who wrote (149)3/24/2000 2:08:00 PM
From: RocketMan  Read Replies (3) of 227
 
Hesse says birds flying through the beam will not interrupt the data flow, which continues until 85 percent of the beam is occluded.
That's BS. So 15% occlusion will not hurt his data flow? And what will a bird do, transmit 15% of the IR beam? LOL
Maybe he means he will be ok if only 15% of the bird flies through the beam. Let's see, a bird interrupting the beam for 1/100 of a second might in a 100mbps beam would block 1 mb. So instead of 1mb, he drops 150kb. Sounds significant to me. And he is going to beam this in windows, right? Isn't that where birds like to hang out?
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