[dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not.

Mitsules, Mark Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com
Tue Nov 9 07:52:30 CST 2004


Shamil, 

This competition is definitely on "the edge", and not suited for practical
application.  The competition, IIRC, was held in the desert to achieve the
greatest possible line-of-site.  Sadly, I don't think this contest website
contains any actual technical data...it is just a recap of the competition.
http://www.wifi-shootout.com/home.html

HTH,

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Shamil Salakhetdinov [mailto:shamil at users.mns.ru] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:33 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not.


Mark,

Mark, I'm interested in that too because I've 802.11b router and wireless
card...
This link http://www.wifi-shootout.com/ doesn't work here :(
Pinging it works OK (~20ms) but I can't get shown in IE.
What is its full URL?

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mitsules, Mark" <Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not.


> It CAN be done.  300 yards...hah!  How about 55.1 miles using 802.11b!!!
> http://www.wifi-shootout.com/
>
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Tydda [mailto:Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:23 AM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not.
>
>
> I was going to suggest that, but I wasn't sure of the range. 300 yards is
> quite a distance, even for a directional antenna.
>
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
> Sent: 09 November 2004 00:51
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not.
>
>
> Forget telephony.  Get her a wireless NIC that will take an external
> antenna.  Build / buy a coffee can directional antenna.  Connect it to her
> wireless NIC, and thus her to your wireless router.  She now has screaming
> internet access.
>
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1641185,00.asp
> http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
> http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html
>
> Or just google pringle antenna
>
> Other useful places.
>
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1273593,00.asp
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,37024,00.asp
>
> This stuff actually works
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
> http://folding.stanford.edu/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 7:18 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not.
>
>
> Okay, I have a problem, that I am relatively clueless on where to start.
> I'll try to make this short and sweet.  My best friend in the world lives
> about 1000 feet from me.  She has had a cell phone, and cell phone only
for
> a while.  Her budget is very tight.  She has a computer (actually a little
> better then my home desktop), but no way to get on the internet.  She
> doesn't have cable, and until recently, no land phone.
>
> Her mother is getting her a land phone.  Now she would like internet
> connectivity.  So would I, cause I would like to be able to just email her
> sometimes!  Problem, even really cheap dialup is $9.99 a month, and that's
> money she can barely spend.
>
> I, on the other hand, have a SCREAMING DSL connection (3 mgb down, and
384kb
> up).  I also have Windows 2000 server, which has Routing and Remote
Access,
> so I can actually connect her to my network, and thus out to the internet,
> through RAS.  That, I can do.  Problem, one, I have no modem.  (I'm
working
> on that!)  Two, I only have one phone line, and there is no reason for me
to
> have 2.  The second line would be just for her, and would also be more
> expensive then her just getting dialup. If I connect my home phone to my
> server, however, it will answer on every call.  Sort of annoying, because
> then I lose my answering machine, and I wouldn't get messages.  What I
need
> to do, is to have the modem pickup, only if the caller id (which I have)
> matches HER home number. (If she wants to call me, she can call me with
her
> cell).
>
> Any ideas?  I know I'll need to use Telephony, but that is the limit of
what
> I know on this subject.
>
> Drew
>
>
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