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Technology Stocks : George Gilder - Forbes ASAP -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Walkingshadow who wrote (1921)	8/6/1999 9:49:00 AM
From: P2V	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5853

Walkingshadow, A Big Thank You for getting back to the basic purpose of this thread --- IE to keep track of George Gilder's think Perhaps too much time has been wasted agonizing over (several) honest mistakes, made by the producers and users of GG's web site. IMO there is nothing humanly possible, that will prevent the pump and dump activity that follows, and will continue to follow, the issuance of George's publications. Let's hope that GG does not terminate his outstanding service, in total frustration. (Well, back to lurking) Best Regards to all, Mardy.

To: Walkingshadow who wrote (1921)	8/6/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: RoseCampion	Respond to of 5853

Semi-OT - Ricochet. Also, Vodafone has a huge, ready-made market already in their laps, the vast majority of whom probably don't know (or particularly care) that Richochet has a faster wireless modem. A data point from 3D space here...I was a Ricochet subscriber in Seattle in early-to-mid 1998. I was pleased with the reliability of the service, and the 'always on' feature, but the both the speed and latency were not nearly as good as advertised...I rarely achieved more than 19.2K (nowhere near the 28.8 claimed) and latency was on the order of 500-750ms (making telnet sessions problematic at best). Ricochet customer service kept talking about my problems as if they were unique or somehow due to not getting a good signal, and kept trying alternative solutions, but nothing really made any difference one way or the other. (I was located in the middle of the city and my modem/receiver claimed to be 'seeing' at least seven poletop tranceivers at good dB numbers - I actually had a suspicion that the network architecture itself was at fault.) Also, I don't believe that the Ricochet spread-spectrum technology is claimed to work in a moving vehicle - this would be a considerable disadvantage vs. a standard digital cellular solution. When cheap ($29.95) DSL came to my area via USWest, I dropped the Ricochet service immediately - same price for 10-15x the bandwidth was a no-brainer. -Rose-