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On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:51:12 -0500 |
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Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:02:09AM +0600, El Nino wrote: |
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> > i have a 128kbps Internet connection to my home & now i want give |
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> > access to my college friends to it. (i already have two running |
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> > squid+firewall gentoo servers) |
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> > I'm looking for wireless technology to do this. all friends are within 1km. |
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> A noble pursuit, but I doubt it could be done easily... AFAIK |
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> IEEE802.11 is mostly reliable only for clients within 100 meters. |
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> Unless you live on the top of a hill with wide open space all around |
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> you for kilometers, I doubt you'd get coverage all the way out of 1 |
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> kilometer. And if someone happened to be using wireless on neighboring |
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> frequency bands to the one you are using, and if that someone happened |
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> to be physically closer to your friend than you are, there's almost no |
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> hope in establishing a connection... |
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What bollocks. 802.11 is capable of 5 km at least with a decent card and |
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directional aerials. Directional aerials can be built from quite cheap |
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materials like woks and other asian food implements, or you can buy |
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commercial directional aerials. |
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examples: |
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http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/g.mckenzie/Radio%20Dish/Radio%20aerial.htm |
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http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/ |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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