What is an interwave node?
From what I gathered, the main nodes where huge for the sole reason that they had to broadcast and receive terabytes of information a second, from many thousands of individual connections. They're the connection hubs on which the whole system is based. The individual user at the end of the station doesn't need to be able to handle more than their own needs. Compare the little 3G dongle you can get from most mobile networks, with some of the larger mobile phone towers... (For which the actual base transceiver is also surprisingly small, most of it's just the broadcasting equipment.)
A cyborg could have the little USB dongle thing inside them easy enough, but only really be able to hook into nearby nodes at short ranges. (Jet can't reach the geostationary equipment from Earth's surface, she has to use a large wave enabled antennae dish at a Motel).
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From what I gathered, the main nodes where huge for the sole reason that they had to broadcast and receive terabytes of information a second, from many thousands of individual connections. They're the connection hubs on which the whole system is based. The individual user at the end of the station doesn't need to be able to handle more than their own needs. Compare the little 3G dongle you can get from most mobile networks, with some of the larger mobile phone towers... (For which the actual base transceiver is also surprisingly small, most of it's just the broadcasting equipment.)
A cyborg could have the little USB dongle thing inside them easy enough, but only really be able to hook into nearby nodes at short ranges. (Jet can't reach the geostationary equipment from Earth's surface, she has to use a large wave enabled antennae dish at a Motel).
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?