Re: Unix freeware? And WiFi Video or VOIP?

No, he doesn't. He is constantly looking for free advice from people who
normally charge for it. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I (and quite
a few others whom I have spoken with) am tired of the constant "Please
advise" on topics not related to COMMUNITY wireless networking. People do
tend to get a little off topic sometimes on talk@, but there are some users
who have shown next to no interest in the goals of SWN and instead use the
list to try and solicit free information, often for what are obviously
commercial purposes. The vast majority of the time, this information can be
found on the Wiki or via a quick Google search. If you continually refuse to
exert even a modicum of effort to help yourself, don't expect others to
gladly do so.

-Daniel Marsh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C.J. Collier" <cjcollier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Seattle Wireless Talk list"
<talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: Unix freeware? And WiFi Video or VOIP?


> Heya Chuck,
>
> Do you need to hire a networking engineer?  If so, what are you willing
> to pay?
>
> Linux is a good "freeware" (pronounced "Free Software" or "Open Source")
> Unix clone.  I know quite a few folks on the list like flavors of BSD.
> Minimum system requirements are a 386.  Faster is better, of course.  If
> you're going to do VOIP, I'd say go with a PIII or so.
>
> I don't quite understand your question about "guaranteed bandwidth."
> As for slow round-trip delays, I've never heard of them.
>
> karma:/home/cjcollier# traceroute dns.services.swn
> traceroute to dns.services.swn (10.16.6.1), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
> 1  larry (10.15.9.6)  1.645 ms  1.645 ms  1.313 ms
> 2  10.15.2.129 (10.15.2.129)  7.086 ms  3.431 ms  3.166 ms
> 3  10.15.2.1 (10.15.2.1)  5.161 ms  3.851 ms  4.124 ms
> 4  10.16.6.1 (10.16.6.1)  57.799 ms  45.432 ms  31.389 ms
> karma:/home/cjcollier# ping -f dns.services.swn
> PING dns.services.swn (10.16.6.1): 56 data bytes
> ...................................
> -- dns.services.swn ping statistics --
> 1892 packets transmitted, 1857 packets received, 1% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 34.9/65.3/122.4 ms
> karma:/home/cjcollier#
>
> C.J.
>
> On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 20:52, Chuck Lare wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > It doesn't appear anyone knows of an Open Source captive portal -
> > under Windows XP. Therefore, can anyone recommend a freeware Unix and
> > the minimum system requirements?
> >
> > I am interested in VOIP and Video Conferencing over WiFi. If I recall
> > VOIP requires a minimum 10 kbps data rates and Video about 384 kbps.
> > Anyone know how much guaranteed bandwidth needs to be used with WiFi
> > and it's inherent slow round-trip delay?
> >
> >
> > Chuck
> >
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