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Cringely's Bank Shot
Michael A. Lowry writes: "You may remember how Robert Cringely used a couple of directional antennas to get an 802.11b link up across a 10.5 km wide valley. The original Slashdot discussion is here. Well Cringely has done it again. This time, he has set up a passive repeater in an oak tree on a nearby mountaintop to bounce a 2 Mb/s signal around a hill that lies between his house and the acces point in Santa Rosa. Read about it here. Details about the homemade hardware he used can be found here. There's going to be a lot more of this in the near future."
...nothing but net.
:-)
~Eric
Hell, what's to stop the DSL provider from reading the article? ;)
On "This Old Geek hosted by McGyver" Feb 29th (not availiable on all PBS stations, ask your parents for permission first.)
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
I misread the title. I thought it said "Cringley's money shot"
More Pr0n on slashdot please..
security through obscurity = modding down anti-linux posts so maybe noone will see them
If you think there aren't many radio free areas left, you've not drove from Rapid City to Walla Walla :)
No satellite access because the house is surrounded by trees and blocks the signal.
Enter the chainsaw! Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
i hate pansy republicans
In the 70's it was Cap'n Crunch, now it's Pringles. Odds are P&G will soon be modifying the design of their "snack" packaging to make sure that 2.4 GHz waves can't use 'em.
Now all I have to do is grow the tree to bounce the signal off.
Say, didn't you sit in front of me in algebra?
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander
In that case, they've obviously picked the right name. Bootleggers!
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Inventor of the term 'pardon my French'.
What Cringely didn't mention is that he also has a modified 10 megawatt directional microwave oven pointing at said parking spots. This keeps most objects infront of his house crisp and/or sparky.
...when your co-workers are installing 802.11b equipment above you. Here's a link to a page I put up that has a video clip of what almost happened to us when a wrench was dropped from 150ft. on a tower.
The Unwired
You're the type of person who calls the cops on the local pirate radio station, aren't you?
How bout /. gets some negotiations going to swap Katz for Cringely with PBS. Sounds like a hell of a trade. At least I can get through an entire Cringely article without getting the dry heaves.
If it ain't a Model M, it's a piece of crap.
A free cookie to whoever finds the aerial, steals it, takes pictures of it and sends a ransom note to Cringley. Come on, you know you want to. A great project for a bored geek in his area.. FAME AND FORTUNE AWAIT!
mogorific carpentry experiments