[gurps] Re: Internet on blue planet and like worlds

[Tom Sparks]

From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de>

To: The GURPSnet mailing list <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Sent: Thursday, 1 January, 2009 8:17:46 PM


>Tom replied to me:
>> >When you say colony, do you mean the worldwide program, each 
>> >individual town or something in between?
>> the towns on the cluster islands
>> depending on the cluster there is 5 to 15+ towns

>So there would be something like half a dozen colonies (call it
>ten to be on the safe side) with an average 200,000 colonists. 

>That means one microwave sat uplink, used eight hours per 
>day for 'play' data, provides 24 megabytes per user. Probably 
>not enough. A lasercom uplink would provide 2.4 gigabyte per
>user.
I think you misunderstood me
user cant access/use the sat link or town to town link
the server/relay computer runs a wikipedia like website about/for the town
if information about other towns are needed then a form of 
accessing the Internet by E-mail  (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/ )
is used

>Just going by the GURPS numbers, I'd probably put an uplink
>into each town, or perhaps half the towns.

>> >* Towns may be more than 100 miles apart, especially on a 
>> >  waterworld.
>> I didn't look at the maps before replying
>> 500km/310miles would be better
>> there are few towns that outside of that,
>> but they may not want internet access

>If it is a town and not an individual homestead, odds are that 
>somebody wants net access. Professionals in need of data or
>a second opinion, the local newspaper if there is such a thing,
>perhaps even a pub in search of an attraction.

>> under the HCC (the High Commission for Communication) directive a network
>> of communication satellite are in place 

>If you come from interstellar space, it is relatively cheap to 
>build large sats. Cheaper than landing the equivalent amount
>of hardware, and Blue Planet has seen massive imports.
what about a world without space travel?
Could radio beacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_beacon) do the same job?


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