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March 06, 2006
If Ma Bell can return, so can Ricochet
Help me off the floor, please, I just got done reading this story about Ricochet's planned return to the Bay area. Yeah! I knew someday my old Ricochet modem would rise again... to surf at sub-standard (but untethered!) speeds.
Maybe there's a self-help group out there somewhere for us old, rejected, left by the roadside of the info highway Ricochet users. If you used Ricochet, and you had the grace to be in a good reception zone, it was wonderful. No phone lines to worry about. Any room in the house would do. You could even take it on the road to another city that had Ricochet, and fire right up -- no changing SMTP settings or any of that other fun stuff that was part and parcel of the old way of connecting.
We could even forgive the old gal for the occasional DNS slipup.
One of my great geek stories involves taking my Ricochet down to LA for Internet World, and finding a "hidden" Ricochet network that the company had set up for the LAPD. Ah the joy of turning on that modem and hearing the four beeps that said "bandwidth is yours!"
But it's a love that shan't be rejoined, since I have now found a new suitor for my mobile broadband needs... who reaches speeds Ricochet will never see. But maybe, just maybe... on a dark night... I'll take the modem out and see if I hear the beeps again. And remember... the way we were...
Posted by paul at March 6, 2006 12:37 PM