For those of you interested, I wrote a review a while back on Proxim's 802.11a / 2X cards. These are the radios that are 802.11a compatible and also claim a blazing 108mbps bitrate.
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/ProximR ev iew
Here's something that can keep you thinking for hours on end.
Now, examine your own field of vision. For most of us, it is oval in shape and 3D. Now, while looking straight and not moving your eyes or head, look behind you. What color is it? Its not black or white, its not red, blue, green or any variation. Now, what would a splotch of that color look like on a piece of paper? How about mixed with other colors? That would be truely Squant.
The main advantage in canada is due to the fact it is so cold there. At those extreme temperatures, copper wire will actually superconduct, making it less susceptible to noise and higher frequency attenuation. This is a good thing since there are *only* 4 CO's in the entire country. Some copper runs go for thousands of miles!! And you thought the US PSTN was bad...
Seattle Wireless uses Wikiwiki, which allows anyone to edit any pages on the site. This allows me to add relevent information to the site or correct spelling or gramatical errors that others may have without hounding a single webmaster. Its the way the entire web should be.
However, there is a problem. The maturity level of some internet users would spoil it for the rest of us. SeattleWireless decided that the benefits of having a publically editable and accessable page were far more then the occasional lamer who thinks he's hacking the page or thinks that it was left there on accident. Im sure that same person went around their home and neighboorhood later that day and spray painted their name over everything.
People who deface the a publically editable website rank among people who snatch candy from babies, deface public property, destroy historic landmarks and take over channels on IRC.
The Commodore Amiga 3000 and 4000 actually feature a 32bit "clockless bus" called Zorro III which overlays ontop of a clocked bus, similar to ISA, called Zorro II. The Zorro III bus is a very interesting bus. All timing is strobe based. This means data is thrown out on the bus, and the receiving card or bus controller strobes a reply back as soon as it can latch the data and make use of it. Transfers between cards and memory can be extremely fast, however, transfering from a "fast" card to a card with slower logic will actually slow the system down. Addressing is multiplexed, like PCI... its a very cool thing though, imagine if PCI was transparently overlayed onto ISA and thats Zorro III! All data transfers were done between the 3.5MHz clock cycles of the Zorro II bus. Of course, the technology has been lost over the years -- it would be cool if it was used again. clock sucks!
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For those of you interested, I wrote a review a while back on Proxim's 802.11a / 2X cards. These are the radios that are 802.11a compatible and also claim a blazing 108mbps bitrate.
R ev iew
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Proxim
Here's something that can keep you thinking for hours on end. Now, examine your own field of vision. For most of us, it is oval in shape and 3D. Now, while looking straight and not moving your eyes or head, look behind you. What color is it? Its not black or white, its not red, blue, green or any variation. Now, what would a splotch of that color look like on a piece of paper? How about mixed with other colors? That would be truely Squant.
The main advantage in canada is due to the fact it is so cold there. At those extreme temperatures, copper wire will actually superconduct, making it less susceptible to noise and higher frequency attenuation. This is a good thing since there are *only* 4 CO's in the entire country. Some copper runs go for thousands of miles!! And you thought the US PSTN was bad ...
Seattle Wireless uses Wikiwiki, which allows anyone to edit any pages on the site. This allows me to add relevent information to the site or correct spelling or gramatical errors that others may have without hounding a single webmaster. Its the way the entire web should be. However, there is a problem. The maturity level of some internet users would spoil it for the rest of us. SeattleWireless decided that the benefits of having a publically editable and accessable page were far more then the occasional lamer who thinks he's hacking the page or thinks that it was left there on accident. Im sure that same person went around their home and neighboorhood later that day and spray painted their name over everything. People who deface the a publically editable website rank among people who snatch candy from babies, deface public property, destroy historic landmarks and take over channels on IRC.
The Commodore Amiga 3000 and 4000 actually feature a 32bit "clockless bus" called Zorro III which overlays ontop of a clocked bus, similar to ISA, called Zorro II. The Zorro III bus is a very interesting bus. All timing is strobe based. This means data is thrown out on the bus, and the receiving card or bus controller strobes a reply back as soon as it can latch the data and make use of it. Transfers between cards and memory can be extremely fast, however, transfering from a "fast" card to a card with slower logic will actually slow the system down. Addressing is multiplexed, like PCI ... its a very cool thing though, imagine if PCI was transparently overlayed onto ISA and thats Zorro III! All data transfers were done between the 3.5MHz clock cycles of the Zorro II bus. Of course, the technology has been lost over the years -- it would be cool if it was used again. clock sucks!