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- From: dwilliam@jabba.ess.harris.com (David Williams)
- Subject: Re: Why not PEP over cellular?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.135418.11714@trantor.harris-atd.com>
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- Organization: Harris Information Systems Division, Melbourne, FL
- References: <1992Jul7.061358.935@apt.bungi.com> <1992Jul10.201124.4404@fnbc.com> <clemon.08f0@lemsys.UUCP> <BOB.92Jul17141605@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:54:18 GMT
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- In <BOB.92Jul17141605@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
-
- >In article <clemon.08f0@lemsys.UUCP> clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
- > Generally it is accepted, however, that when trying to carry on a
- > high-speed data connection via cellular, you will have the sense to
- > stop driving :-).
-
- >Why would I want to restrict myself to not driving while my connection
- >is open? After I conduct my interactive business and hit the road,
- >there may still be a long FTP transfer or source tree rdist or NNTP
- >update (often all the above, simultaneously) that don't require my
- >attention. I can pitch my SPARCbook in the other seat, with its disk
- >and modem still grinding away, and forget about it. After my notebook
- >and the office server are in sync and the traffic dies down, the PPP
- >link will idle out and hang up the cell call. And shortly after that,
- >the SPARCbook will shut itself down to conserve its batteries (unless
- >I have it plugged into the car's power bus, which Mazda has cleverly
- >camouflaged as a cigarette lighter socket :-).
-
- Well, the problem is : How do you tell the difference between your
- target telephone (the office machine) giving up and hanging up the line
- and the cellular link handing off to another cell? Both involve service
- interruption. Some cell handoffs can get really long, due to local
- traffic and signal quality.
-
- To make this work, you would have to have some way to tell the
- difference between a loss of signal and a handoff, which the cell
- network does not provide (untill your call comes back, that is... :-)
- At least, I think that's true - anyone out there work for a cell-phone
- related business? Anyway for a smart modem to tell the difference?
-
- I thought of using the loss-of-signal timeout for most modems,
- which allows a fairly long delay before the modem gives up. This was
- my solution for a call-waiting system that would not respond to a *70
- command. (Local PBX, non-standard) The modem would tolerate all sorts
- of long delays when the timeout was set long enough (although the tone
- tended to get it confused). Cell phone handoffs, in my experience, tend
- to have a good bit of line noise and hash added in. Is this due to the
- fact that I've only used a cell phone in a poor service area? How do
- cell phones do when they are presented with a large variety of excellent
- signals?
-
-
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