Date   : Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:37:16 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Acorn World @ Retro Reunited: Revised Floor-plan

Dave Moore wrote:

> SO ... please can we all forget about routing cables from the far end of the
> Emley Suite all the way through to the lobby, as that just /ain't/ going to
> happen! ;)

Perhaps the next DIY project should be some sort of radio transmission 
system for Econet? I dimly recall Maplin doing modules that could 
transmit digital data at around 416MHz? Going back to the late '90s, but 
we'd only need a range of 20-odd metres for most normal situations, and 
the data rate isn't terribly high. Not sure how something like flag fill 
would be handled, this would probably fail miserably with an ad-hoc 
layout like WiFi can offer. More likely two units will be supplied as a 
pair and together they will look, to Econet, like a bridge.


> Incidentally, myself and Joel did enquire about wall-sockets on Sunday, but
> were advised that the sockets in the walls were only phone-points, not
> ethernet ports.

Surely if they were Ethernet, they'd be wired directly to a distribution 
panel or router of some sort, thus socket-to-socket for passing Econet 
signalling wouldn't work?


Best wishes,

Rick.

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