Just a reminder about the www.yi-tan.com regarding this and other 3g/4g phone issues tomorrow Monday 1.30pm USA est. (even thought the webpage hasn't been updated to reflect this weeks topic yet)
Will also be interesting to hear thoughts on network neutrality as per the fallout with T-Mobile and Truphone this week. http://thomashowe.blogspot.com/2007/06/truphone-gets-blocked.html Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Stirling > Sent: Sunday, 17 June 2007 10:39 AM > To: Emre Turkay > Cc: OpenMoko > Subject: Re: Home Brew StarTrek Communicator > > Emre Turkay wrote: > > On 6/12/07, Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Using really good coding, in good channel conditions, you may get 20 > >> megabytes a second. > > > > > > Actually 10 MBits/sec = 1.25 MBytes/sec > > Indeed. > However, in good channel conditions, you can squeeze extra bits into > each signal period. > For example, '56K' modems put 7 bits into each signal period. > > Common wifi implementations rarely use only one bit per signal period. > As the channel noise rises, the number of bits you can fit in to the > signal period drops. > As an extreme case, for example, GPS has a 50 bits/second datarate, and > a signal rate of 1Mhz. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

