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Multihomed WLANs from Intel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the war-walking dept.

accessdeniednsp writes: "El Reg gives us some insight on Intel Labs' new software to let your wireless LAN card hop between various networks (802.3, 802.11, and 'fixed Ethernet' they call it). Perfect for us snoopers to walk by college frat houses and hopping on the 'net with our linux ipaq's :)" First company to come out with a "universal connectivity" PCMCIA card wins all the marbles.

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  1. Multi homed? by dadaist · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have trouble leaving my own home as it is. Please.

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  2. Frats with LANs? by Skyshadow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe I've been out of college for too long, but the highest level of connectivity I've observed at most frats was the build-in beer taps.

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  3. Walking around campus by essiescreet · · Score: 2, Funny

    How the hell do you walk and surf the web at the same time? Those laptops must be pretty tough, b/c you'd all the time be running into things...

  4. Frats by SilentChris · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Perfect for us snoopers to walk by college frat houses and hopping on the 'net with our linux ipaq's :)"

    Call me crazy, but I don't remember most of the frats in my college being crazy about wireless ethernet. They were too busy drinking/partying/etc. I guess maybe if you're at MIT...

  5. funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Intel's demo showed Skamania (cute name) hopping between 802.11, 802.3 and fixed Ethernet...

    it's not really a cute name...Skamania is the name of a county near Portland (Intel HQ)
    They get all their names from locations here...Wilamette, Tualitin, etc...

    BUT IT'S NOT CUTE!