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Can 802.11 Become A Viable Last-Mile Alternative?

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-for-the-last-mile dept.

NikiScevak writes "As telco's around the world move from government hands to private investors the incentive for them to create compeition at the wholesale DSL level drops dramatically. The CSIRO in Australia are investigating the use of Wireless LAN technology 802.11b as a means through which to provide alternative broadband access, achieving range of up to 7km with standard components."

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  1. Re:tired of the insecurity troll by Beliskner · · Score: 3, Funny
    Want security?
    Forget security, every company should run 802.11 WEP-disabled with no VPN and no encryption.

    This way companies are supporting the ultimate open-source. If M$ was an open-source corporation /. wouldn't bitch about them so much (as in all internal network traffic and servers open)

    Damn you *BSD and *nix people giving companies security, making them closed. Using open source code to make corporations closed. Oh man. You *nix and *BSD people are self-defeating.

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    A caveman dreams of being us, the incalculable power and riches. We dream of being Q, then what?
  2. Re:Ugh.... by zsmooth · · Score: 3, Funny

    The current discussion is not about using 802.11 in an office, which is arguably a bad idea, but using it as a last-mile solution to the home. Compared to other solutions (cable, dsl), it's really not any less secure.