Comment Re:HAM radio has been doing this for years (Score 1) 143
It was a lot faster than that for messages
with satellite gateways and all sorts of
things. 'private' messages across Europe
took around a day.
However the Internet killed packet because
although it was free, 1200bps over radio on
VHF and 300bps on HF was unable to move the
volumes of data generated and the Internet
came along which can.
In terms of distance, we had a reliable link
from Gibraltar to Almeria with three watts of
RF. Check the distance, because it shows how
trivial Tarifa Tangier is.
Although the data rate was lower, the concept
and software used for packet radio was way
ahead of what can be done with WiFi in terms
of building a wide area network that can cope
with faults.
Jim
http://www.gibnet.com
