Thread: New legal Garmin dog tracker

Originally Posted by Uplandstalker

Correct, each collar will has a unique ID in the data packet. This is how each dog is correctly identified and the tracking actually happens, great function. Maybe using the world "block" isn't quite right. Maybe I'll try a different approach; think of what happens when everyone in a town uses their cell phone(consider this the dog collar) at the same time, this would be a town with maybe only one cell tower (the handheld tracker). Now each phone, even though it has a unique identifier, still uses part of the bandwidth of the cell network (radio frequency around the 900MHz range). When a lot of devices connect to a small bandwidth, eventually, some one get either cut off or the call doesn't actually go through to the person you are trying to call. Have you ever tried to call someone and nothing happens? This is due to the bandwidth of the network(or radio frequency) becoming over run with
information that it just fails.

The actually likely hood of this happening is normally low, unless at or after an event when lots of people(dogs) try to contact someone else via a cell tower(the handheld). After a big earthquake, at a concert, just after getting off the plane and everyone checks there phone. The network is screwed!

Ever had text messages not get to the person in the right order, this is the same thing.

Again, low likelihood, but every possible if the output power of the device is low, say 0.5watts.


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