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Technology Stocks : Skype running hot, turbo-charged on Metcalfe's Law
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To: Done, gone. who wrote (84)9/9/2005 4:02:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn   of 170
 
Thanks for the info. Skype has certainly been a great success. It also enables phone calls from aircraft. Post from a day or two ago [I put it in the RoamAD and Globalstar streams]:

<To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (220) 9/7/2005 4:36:01 AM
From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) of 223

I just had a conversation via Skype with Martyn Levy [of RoamAD] who is now in a Lufthansa aircraft heading for Europe from San Francisco.

His wifi powered notebook computer connects to the wifi picocell in the aircraft, which then connects to ground or satellite. Total cost is US$29.95 for the flight which will be about 11 hours.

The satellite connection must be geostationary because while Globalstar is being established for voice connections, the 9.6 kbps data rate is too slow for skyping [Iridium is slower still]. Martyn said some of his ping times were 200 milliseconds, so there must be a direct to ground link too when available.

The era of millions of people in airliners every day being out of contact for hours at a time is coming to an end.

It's about time.

We had quite a voice delay, so it was the old "over" at the end of each person speaking. Maybe Lufthansa limits the data rate excessively.>

Meanwhile, 3 million users online, as usual.

Mqurice
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