[HECnet] Intermittent Connection with PyDECnet?

[Thomas DeBellis]

Line of sight reminds me of another crazy idea I once heard about.

On one side of a valley in a highly wooded rural area, a technical 
writer was highly desirous of broadband, yet none was to be had.  Whaay 
away, on another side, broadband was available.  So what he did was find 
somebody over there who could get broadband and offered to pay the 
service.  Then he got a pair of access points (AP's) and set them up as 
'repeaters'.  This is the cool part: he connected the AP's to some 
pretty awesome yagi's.

Bingo.  Broadband.  I thought this was a pretty fine hack, but I forget 
where I read it.

DSL is _plenty_ fast for DECnet.  Heck, I remember when a KMC (56 Kbps) 
was nearly incomprehensible.  You only need megabit speeds for 
multi-media.  Even audio will work over DSL (I know, I had it).  I'd 
finish things up with your parents.

If there is public broadband (say a library) somewhere plausible, you 
might be able to do this with only one yagi.

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> On 3/2/20 12:55 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
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> DECnet-over-AX25 appeals to my sense of whimsy, even if it's not remotely practical! If Bob and I have a clear line of sight (extremely unlikely), then a microwave link is also possible. I do have a half-finished project to put in a microwave link between my folks' house and mine, but their connectivity isn't much better. They have DSL and a cellular hotspot; at least one of those links is up frequently, but not always. :)
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>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 9:45 AM, Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Since you and Bob are both HAM's; what is the distance between your stations?  Is IP over radio a ridiculous idea?
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