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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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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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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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[1] http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20030929-2886.html |
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This one's a bit....ummm...graphic? |
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"Lagrangian Mechanics with Differential Equations is like masturbating. You do |
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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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