Agreed! -- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com
Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ -ray wrote: > > I'm no expert either, but I tend to agree. A voice call is MUCH more > bandwidth and resource intensive than a txt message. You probably use > more bandwidth in the first second of a voice call than when sending a > txt. With lots of towers down, the remaining towers were inundated with > voice calls and couldn't handle the load. It was a lot easier to sneak > through a low bandwidth txt message than setup and maintain a > full-fledged voice channel. > > That is just pure conjecture on my part though. I could be totally > wrong. :) > > ray > > > On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Petri Laihonen wrote: > >> I do not know the tower operations in detail, but my gut feeling says no. >> It is more like voice and data channels. For instance you get certain >> amount of 64kb voice channels out of one T1 line. Those are >> the ones getting congested. There could be similar amount of channels >> for data, but data can be buffered/queued and normally >> require less bandwidth, whereas voice can not (or very very little) >> and uses relatively more bandwidth. >> >> Again, I'm not an expert in GPRS or other wireless protocols in >> detail....� so my gut feeling may be off a bit. Also, this >> scenario keeps shifting towards heavier data usage and some day all >> voice channels are just pure data. (I think they already are, >> but will be a bit different format.....) >> >> Petri >> >> >> Karthik Poobal wrote: >> >> Don't they use different frequencies for data and voice? >> >> >> >> -- >> Karthik Poobalasubramanian >> Louisiana Board of Regents >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 225-910-6126 >> >> >> >> >> >> On Aug 29, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Petri Laihonen wrote: >> >> >> >> Cell towers crap out first with Voice, not with data.... I guess data >> is easier to queue.... :-) >> Text messaging worked a lot longer than Voice.... And that's when >> majority learned that useful function in mobile world. >> >> I remember the first Mardi Gras after the cell phone boom arrived to >> US. I had no problems communicating at the same time people were >> complainin that their calls can not go through...... (I also >> expected that to happen......) >> >> In most cases it is the incompetence of the people in the stores >> provisioning the phones/plans rather than technology which fails. I >> have been a victim of that about 80% of the time..... Latest case >> being my iPhuck activation..... After they screwed up my wireless >> account yet again, it took me 6 hours on the phone over 3 separate >> days before it was activate. They could have done it the way I told >> them to do it, but no..... >> >> >> Petri >> >> >> -ray wrote: >> >> >> Several times this week, people have said "we should have some of >> those cell cards for our laptops in case we lose internet!". I >> reminded them that the cell towers were the first thing to crap out >> during Katrina. >> >> Hopefully AT&T learned some things, and the infrastructure is better >> now than it was 3 years ago. >> >> ray >> >> >> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Petri Laihonen wrote: >> >> >> >> Even via mobile if it comes down to that.....���� I have multiple >> phones with multiple operators, so I'm not completely in the dark >> with my iPhuck.....�� :-) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
