In a message dated 08/01/2008, dickthomas01@............. writes:

Would  something like the amateur communication system using computers here 
in the  U.S. be fast enough for you? And is it available to you? This is quite 
a bit  of automation associated with that setup now (within the  software)..



Hi Tom,
 
    Thanks for the thought. The basic problem is that  my phone is about 12 
km from the BT phone station. Even at the speed of light,  the signal delay 
would be about 40 micro seconds each way, so a transmit + ACK  would be >80 micro 
seconds assuming that the rest of the system were  infinitely fast. This 
delay severely limits the communication speeds when you  are sending single bytes. 
    That way around it is to use a system which sends a  large information 
packet. However, I can just about cope at the moment. 
 
    Regards,
 
    Chris Chapman



   






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