On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, James S. Kaplan wrote:
> They are using a firm called Metricom for their wireless net
Metricom pulled out of the UO years ago when the dorms were finally wired
with ethernet (and hence they were no longer needed).
The UO currently uses 802.11b for its wireless networking.
http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/summer2000/wirelessemu.html
802.11b is faster and uses PC card wireless NICs as opposed to Metricom's
huge Ricochet modems. But apparently they don't have blanket coverage of
the campus with it, as they did with Ricochet. Not that they couldn't do
it, of course. A wear-hard (wearable computer hardware) list member
recently reported that he had 1Mb/s wireless LAN coverage all over his
college campus. He said he sat down on the grass in the quad one day and
watched live-streaming video on his laptop -- as an awe-struck crowd
slowly gathered around him.
> and from what I hear Metricom is going through bankruptcy.
Metricom seems to be healthy. What did you hear?
-Chris
