VanLUG Email Archive
> Ben Holt wrote:
> >
> > >Matthew informs me that COMDEX does a roaring trade in being the exclusive
> > >supplier of things like phone lines, T-1 hookups, and the rest. In
> > >Toronto, they used a dialup connection over a phone line because it the
> > >least expensive alternative.
> >
> > If this is true than I think an amateur radio link would be a very fitting
> > hack. Like Linux people are going to pay for anything they don't have to!
> > The fools.
>
> I am afraid a radiolink may be too slow comparing to what other
> OS- and network- related presenters and vendors will have and to
> what most targeted visitors (suits, corporate types, MIS?) are
> used to. You may have to explain to some that it's the network
> that is slow rather than the OS. In fact, if I were Comdex
> donating a $5000 booth at my exhibition I would not hesitate to
> throw a lousy 10bT wire along as well. :)
>
> - Vlad
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