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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8303)	11/12/1999 8:54:00 AM
From: ccryder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29987

Regarding using G/GEO Sats for wireless data, broadband downlink from GEO will require more antenna gain (read bigger) than practical for a hand held device. Alternatively, an order of magnitude increase in GEOSAT power would be required. But there is a paradigm change on the bandwidth required for WWW access--e.g. Palm Pilot V. I own a Compac hand held windows CE computer(?) and had the idea that it would be great to pull a device out of my pocket (OK, hip pocket) plug into a telephone line, and surf the net. Well, it isn't too practical. The thing is too slow, too big, too power hungry (20 min on a battery charge). Enter the palm devices. The wireless Palm Pilot VII is a wireless connection at work. Many of the popular web sites are providing a reduced bandwidth data set for this class of device. Look at your typical page. How much of the data (bandwidth) is the content you were looking for? Even for stock quotes on Etrade, the update time is on the order of half a minute and longer for what--10 bytes of data???? I want the reduced data set for my desk top computer NOW! Processing this reduced data set will improve the server performance as well. So what I am saying, our thirst for bandwidth is one thing. If it comes with increased price well that's tolerable. But if it comes also with an increase in size, reduced portability, increased time for downloads (because of server limitations and bandwidth out of the server) then forget it. Give me a reduced data set now to satisfy my REQUIREMENTS NOW. $ill Gates, in his Windows CE, has dropped the ball. Software bloat, A.K.A. Windows, is too power hungry and too slow. So until we can run our computers on methane, a fuel readily available with most of us, a palm computer device for data will work just fine, fit in my shirt pocket, and run on a battery charge for a month. I might even buy one soon. Oh yes, 9600bps (e.g. G*) is more than adequate for reduced data set operation.