From: Onno Meyer <[email protected]> To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 1 January, 2009 8:17:46 PM
>Tom replied to me: >> >When you say colony, do you mean the worldwide program, each >> >individual town or something in between? >> the towns on the cluster islands >> depending on the cluster there is 5 to 15+ towns >So there would be something like half a dozen colonies (call it >ten to be on the safe side) with an average 200,000 colonists. >That means one microwave sat uplink, used eight hours per >day for 'play' data, provides 24 megabytes per user. Probably >not enough. A lasercom uplink would provide 2.4 gigabyte per >user. I think you misunderstood me user cant access/use the sat link or town to town link the server/relay computer runs a wikipedia like website about/for the town if information about other towns are needed then a form of accessing the Internet by E-mail (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/ ) is used >Just going by the GURPS numbers, I'd probably put an uplink >into each town, or perhaps half the towns. >> >* Towns may be more than 100 miles apart, especially on a >> > waterworld. >> I didn't look at the maps before replying >> 500km/310miles would be better >> there are few towns that outside of that, >> but they may not want internet access >If it is a town and not an individual homestead, odds are that >somebody wants net access. Professionals in need of data or >a second opinion, the local newspaper if there is such a thing, >perhaps even a pub in search of an attraction. >> under the HCC (the High Commission for Communication) directive a network >> of communication satellite are in place >If you come from interstellar space, it is relatively cheap to >build large sats. Cheaper than landing the equivalent amount >of hardware, and Blue Planet has seen massive imports. what about a world without space travel? Could radio beacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_beacon) do the same job? Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
