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To: DaveMG who wrote (39017)	8/30/1999 2:53:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

I truly believe that well into the future, we will see enough local "pico-net" stuff to have megabit wireless access available. It will not be mobile inthat you can move about, but it will be portable, in that you can access it if you sit down and don;t move much (i.e. 10 feet or so). Things like a combo of LMDS/MMDS to a bluetooth repeater, HDR to bluetooth, calbe to BT, fibre to BT, etc. You will be able to access this like you do now wiht an ISP, in that you connect, but the service will ask for some login info (alot like the cable modems today do) and once on the system you can access just like you were at home. I have previsously posted that the whole encryption/compression/firewall stuff is very bad. Microsoft wants you to believe that PPTP is the way to go, but this is way too much overhead, way too complicated to understand for the masses, and way to much over the air overhead. I firmly believe that to open up this market there needs to be a new TCP/IP type stack out there which is mostly in hardware, which is freely licensed, and which does virtual private nets everywhere on the IP space. Once this is realized then everyone can be on their own net at any time accessing all their data wihtout fear of it getting copied off of xxx.edu internet holding node by some grad student in the middle of the night. I also believe that the ultimate laptop is a simple net computer which you only need a screen and a mouse/keyboard with no local smarts or storage and all your transactions are over the net to your single home computer base. That way, there is no file skew, all your stuff is the same, all your storeage is the same, all your files are always with you, and no need to hotsynch. the bandwidth of that link is much lower than if you wanted to offload megabytes of pictures, since all you have is the display link to run. The actual computer link could be anywhere that you can get a multi-megabyte link for faster downloading. If you take all the above together, it makes a very simple very nice network in which to function for the wireless travler. Now if it were just 2004....