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Cringely's Bank Shot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bob-climbs-a-tree dept.

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."

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  1. Off the tree around the hill... by esw · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...nothing but net.
    :-)

    ~Eric

  2. Later this month... by maggard · · Score: 5, Funny
    Later this month Bob will connect into NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System using a "Amana Radar Range" microwave oven and 100 meters of Cat 5 cable.

    On "This Old Geek hosted by McGyver" Feb 29th (not availiable on all PBS stations, ask your parents for permission first.)

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  3. Still 10 years to my access by blackdropbear · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now all I have to do is grow the tree to bounce the signal off.

  4. +Cringley -Katz by Ledge · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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