[MLB-WIRELESS] IP address range for Geelong?

[Tony Langdon, VK3JED]

At 02:16 PM 12/02/2002 +0100, you wrote:

>You're not there yet in Melbourne, we're not there yet in Spain, nor
>are the guys in Seattle, France or the UK.  However the real Internet
>does allow the links to be put in place, even if the relative
>bandwidth over these links is quite low.  And for some of us it would
>be a nice goal to attain.

This idea is not silly, and in fact there was an article in today's Age 
(newspaper) about a variant of this idea (yes guys, my article again).  In 
that example, it was the use of the Internet as a voice "wormhole" between 
distant radio systems, but radio amateurs have been using "wormhole" 
techniques for over 10 years on the packet radio network.

I was chatting keyboard to keyboard in "on air" conference rooms around the 
world irc style long before I had Internet access and long before the 
Internet grew beyond the world of academics! :)

When everyone else was restricted to their local chat BBS, I was chatting 
globally - and it was wireless as well.

Hey guys, the techniques are well understood, and have been used in non 
profit data and now voice networks for years.  There's absolutely no reason 
why they can't be used for wireless networks either, and we should keep our 
addressing policy open to such possibilities.   We don't even have to 
reinvent the wheel to use IP tunneling with wireless networks, it's been 
going on for over a decade (albeit at the blinding speeds of 1200 and 9600 
bps :) ).  We just have to be a little more clever with our choice of 
tunneling protocols, as we have to cope with dynamic addressing issues, 
something which the ham packjet network doesn't have to contend with (as 
its wormholes tend to have static IP addresses).

>I have a sister in Manly so when the Australian network is up and
>running it would be nice to link up to her portable on the beach from
>my portable in a park using a "couple" of non-wireless links on the
>way.  That's a vision, and it may not be achievable, but it's a nice
>goal to aim for...

Well, it will happen one day.

73 de Tony, VK3JED
http://www.qsl.net/vk3jed