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Source: Esther Schindler (esther@bitranch.com)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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Speed to our next meeting!

Close to 100% of Phoenix OS/2 Society members are online. 
In addition to being technically sophisticated, we're also 
very connected. But, to extend the old saying, you can't be 
too thin, too rich, or have too fast an Internet 
connection.

Unfortunately, for a lot of businesses and home users, 
incredibly fast Internet speeds have been far out of the 
budget. That might change for you, really soon - especially 
if you attend the next Phoenix OS/2 Society general 
meeting, on Tuesday, April 13, when SpeedChoice will 
demonstrate its affordable, high-speed wireless Internet 
service. And yes, it works with OS/2.

Did you say wireless?!

SpeedChoice is a wireless, data communications service 
company and an ISP that specializes in high-speed 
connections to the Internet. It offers businesses - of any 
size -- a full range of products and services that can help 
you operate faster and more efficiently. SpeedChoice lets 
home users  experience the Internet how it was meant to be. 
. . fast! Enjoy download speeds up to 100 times faster than 
your old modem could ever handle.

That is real speed. Speed for everything you do online -- 
email, chat, FTP, and surfing the web. Speed for everything 
you could never do online before, like video and audio, 
large document transfer, and no waiting!

SpeedChoice accomplishes these incredible speeds through a 
wireless connection. Your Mac, PC, or LAN receives 
information through a fixed wireless 10 Megabit per second 
downstream data channel. The return upstream path can range 
from a dial-up telephone circuit or ISDN line, all the way 
up to a dedicated or frame relay circuit. (Realistically, 
you still do need a phone line. Dual-direction wireless 
access is coming, but it's not imminent.)

This means realistic download speeds of 1 to 2 Mbps at home 
and 5 to 6 Mbps for your busy corporate LAN and its 
stressed T1 line. The technology is called MMDS, 
Multichannel Multi-point Distribution Service, and it 
transmits 2.5GHz signals through the air, enabling superior 
signal transmission at higher speeds than other wireless 
technologies. Since no satellite transmission is involved, 
typical problems of latency and speed restrictions do not 
apply. The SpeedChoice fixed, wireless network is a highly 
reliable, secure medium for data transmission.

All this starts at $39.95 for a home user. It's available 
in Phoenix and Detroit right now, though the company is 
expanding. (Sensibly, they're testing in comparatively 
smaller markets. If it's not available near you, perhaps 
you should consider moving to Arizona, which we think is a 
good idea anyway. Until then, you can check out the company 
at http://www.speedchoice.com.)

And you said OS/2?!

SpeedChoice doesn't formally support OS/2, because they 
don't have any techies who swear to know it as well as, 
well, the average member of the Society. But, just like any 
other ISP, they use TCP/IP and dialup settings. (And, after 
all, I was able to talk them into showing up. That's a good 
sign. A better sign would be for you to show up, to make it 
clear that the OS/2 community is interested in technology 
like this.)

You'll probably have an easier time at installation if you 
have a Windows or Macintosh machine handy for the setup 
guys, but one Society board member has been regaling the 
rest of us with his download speeds. At the meeting, we'll 
describe some OS/2 specific tips and tricks to make the 
system work across your LAN.

When and where

The general meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 13, at 
7:00pm, at the Mountain Preserve Reception Center, 1431 E 
Dunlap. The "random access" Q&A session starts promptly, on 
the dot, at 6:30pm, give or take a half hour. Visitors are 
always welcome, especially if they bring chocolate. This 
meeting is very non-OS-specific, so it might be a good time 
to bring along a friend that uses another operating system.

You can find a map to the meeting site at 
http://www.possi.org. While you're at the site, sign up for 
a free sample copy of extended attributes, the user group's 
print magazine devoted to OS/2.

The Phoenix OS/2 Society is the world's largest user group 
devoted to IBM's OS/2 operating system, with members in 16 
countries and 48 U.S. States. (Know any OS/2 users in South 
Dakota or Alabama? We're trying to complete the set.)

--Esther Schindler
  program chair, Phoenix OS/2 Society
  http://www.possi.org





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