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On Saturday 12 November 2005 23:51, 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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> > |
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> > I'm looking for wireless technology to do this. all friends are within |
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> > 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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Actually, my brother works for a company in Virginia that is doing wireless |
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ethernet over distances this great or greater. I doubt the technology they |
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use will be cheap enough for this application, though. |
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> |
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> Of course, you could mean wireless other than 802.11, but I don't |
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> think IP over carrier pigeons or bongo drums[1] would do you much good |
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> either. |
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> If you have line-of-sight, you might be able to make do with a |
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> pair of directional antennae set up in the right way, and you might |
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> need a way of increasing the power output of the antennae. Any such |
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> modifications, however, is surely ILLEGAL in most civilized |
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> municipalities. |
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> The long-range wireless guys who have been doing stuff like this all |
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> have ham licenses, and are allowed quite a bit more power from their |
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> devices then us lowly consumers.... |
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> Best |
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> |
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> W |
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> |
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> > can anyone give me a solution to do this? |
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> > |
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> > all advices are warmly welcome... |
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> |
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> [1] http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20030929-2886.html |
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> -- |
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> This one's a bit....ummm...graphic? |
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> "Lagrangian Mechanics with Differential Equations is like masturbating. You |
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> do what works and what makes you feel good." |
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> ~DeathMech, Some Student. P-town PHY 205 |
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> Sortir en Pantoufles: up 21:59 |
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