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On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:15:06AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: |
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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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> 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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In my defense: |
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1) I did mention directional signals LATER ON in my post. |
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2) Notice that he said "FRIENDS". Plural. |
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So of course I start by commenting on the usual capability of an |
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802.11 signal for an omnidirectional antenna. |
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Nick: I notice you use that word (bollocks) a lot. I don't know if to |
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you it is as offensive as it is to me, but I'd appreciate if you don't |
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call it on me before reading my entire post or considering why I wrote |
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what I did. If you had said, for example, "What Bollocks, 802.11 is |
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unregulated band" in response to the misinformation I gave in that post |
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(which someone else corrected), then I'd say "ha, my bad" and move |
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on... |
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W |
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BOOK ...Man had always assumed that he was more |
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intelligent than |
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dolphins because he had achieved so much... the |
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wheel, New York, |
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wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever |
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done was muck |
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about in the water having a good time. But |
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conversely the |
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dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent |
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than man for |
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precisely the same reasons. |
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Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 21:39 |
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