Wireless Mania

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 5, 2002 @01:59AM from the tulips-for-sale dept.

burnsy and others sent in links to stories about 802.11b that are cropping up everywhere. The New York Times has one. (Well, two, actually.) Salon has one. InternetNews has a piece about Boingo, a new wireless start-up, that's also covered in this Forbes article. (The NYT article above also mentions Sputnik.) Both Boingo and Sputnik are trying to leverage the existing community wireless networks to speed their network build-outs. MIT's Tech Review has an interesting piece about a wireless start-up that has already tried and failed. Fixed wireless is also booming, according to an industry study.

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can you run a beuwolf cluster over wireless? by peter303 · 2002-03-05 02:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

You could make a pretty cluster then!
Cabling would be no problem.
How long? by Xamdam_us · 2002-03-05 02:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

I wonder how long it will be till people start driving around with a laptop and a good antenna just to see how many unsecured wireless AP they can find. A friend of mine works for a large company that is in the process of installing a wireless network in warehouses across the country. He told me that one of the concerns that had going into the project was how easy it would be for someone to do just that sort of thing.
Just think a hacker could sit outside you business without any physical connection to trace him. Not to mention industrial espionage.