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Inspiring Adventures in SF Wireless Networking

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-you-too-can-be-wirelessly-groovy dept.

JimDog writes "Here's a description I wrote of how I set up a point-to-point 802.11b link over 3.5 miles for Internet access at my house. The link runs at 3.5 Mbps, which I barely make a dent in, and I'd like to offer the rest of the bandwidth to anyone who's got line-of-sight to my location in San Francisco." The great thing about this story is both his terrific exposure to different parts of city and his willingness to share. It also makes it clear just how easy it is to set up a long distance link.

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  1. Slashdot effect makes 4m SF citizens impotent. by wackybrit · · Score: 5, Funny

    The link runs at 3.5 Mbps, which I barely make a dent in

    Now the whole of SF can experience the Slashdot effect, as 100,000 geeks point their 2.4Ghz transmitters at your aerial, creating enough radioactivity and EMG to render most of the male popular impotent.

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    1. Re:Slashdot effect makes 4m SF citizens impotent. by ObviousGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is SF. The effect of sterility is negligble.

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    2. Re:Slashdot effect makes 4m SF citizens impotent. by Any+Web+Loco · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is /. The effect of sterility is also negligible

  2. Be thankful by inflex · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think this is great... out here in 'outback' Australia we're still trying to convince the budgies to comply with the Avarian packet methods.