Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
> On 28-Aug-99 Kris Kirby wrote:
> > I'm going to be building at least three of these units, assuming I get
> > the technical issues out of the way. So I'm looking at a cheap (hardware
> > and software) way of getting data in and out of a PC with IP support and
> > such. It just makes sense in my POV to use a NIC. It's capable of 10
> > Mbps and has most of the circuitry for preparing data for transmission
> > on it. If you will, it's a ready to use data pump.
>
> Ahh I see..
> So you're basically making a ethernet->radio type of thing?
>
> Or actually mangling the card itself?
Both. The problem is that you can't cram a signal moving at 10 Mbps
through a radio interface designed for 256K, even if it is bandwidth
limited to 256K. I'm hoping the 3C503 is ancient enough that I can slow
it down by yanking it's 20.0000 MHz crystal oscillator and feeding it a
lower speed signal. I'm going to walk them down to see just how far I
can go. After all, 2 Mbps isn't bad, it just requires a little more
work.
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Kris Kirby
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