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To: Dexter Lives On who wrote (18656)	3/11/2002 2:19:59 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (1) of 34857

Oh, I'm sorry Rob. Usually I am too verbose and cut out information clearly obvious to everyone. Didn't realize you had a pulse. Something I don't understand though. I use WiLan. Qcom expects to include it with future chipsets(which will be great since the current Harris/Intersil Prism chipset sucks power in ways similar to a hard drive that never spins down). I like WiLan. Will it take over the internet? Course not. Here is why. High bandwidth is still expensive to connect remote base stations to the internet. Web surfing doesn't need it. Streaming video using Microsoft Media and RealNetworks RealOne player clearly do not need more than a 256kb connection for streaming. MP3's take more time to transfer than download. You do realize uncompressed CD audio uses just under 45kb/sec? A T1 line costs at least $400 a month depending on its span as it requires a repeater in the pair every mile and has a peak transfer rate of 1.5mb/sec or 24 voice calls and is currently the only way you can network your base stations together. 24 or 48 voice users paying $50 a month (my bill BTW) can share that line. In WiLanFantasyLand, one person expecting 10mb/sec will be downloading the latest version of Autocad from some Warez site in Brazil on that line while on his cellphone bitching out his WiLan provider asking where the other 9mb/sec are. Sure, you could dig up miles and miles of freshly paved asphault and deploy fiber to all your little base stations on light poles. As for your noose comment, see you in Chapter 11. Wave to the Ricochet folks while you are there. Sad, really. Unlike Ricochet, you know how the story was going to end before you started.

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