Subj : Re: Packet Radio
To   : SetiOp
From : tenser
Date : Fri Jan 08 2021 18:02:57

On 05 Jan 2021 at 12:03a, SetiOp pondered and said...
 
 Se> Hello everyone! I am curious if anyone has packet radio being used in
 Se> their local area for something other than APRS? Packet has pretty much
 Se> disappeared here in Ontario, Canada, although APRS is still active. I
 Se> appreciate your time.

I have a setup I can use for packet, and there is packet
traffic in my area, but not much.  Here in the US, traffic
handlers associated with the NTS still use it, but it's
not very popular otherwise.

APRS has taken over as the dominant AX.25-based packet
protocol.  I can see why; packet is slow and frustratingly
fragile.  1200 BAUD AFSK with no FEC isn't just low bandwidth,
it's also very high latency and really lossy.  For APRS you
don't generally notice so much, but for anything approaching
interactive use, it's rough.

However, over the last week I got my AMPRNet (https://www.ampr.org/)
and my 44net allocation is back on the Internet; I put a random
Unix machine on the subnet and want to see if I can have a colleague
connect to it from across town by packet.  That should be kind of
fun.  Who needs a packet BBS when you've got a whole multiuser
host computer?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

.