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Inspiring Adventures in SF Wireless Networking
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.
Just post your address. No Spam, I swear!
thanks lmi.net, and sbcglobal.net; you know who you are.
I'd imagine that the Howard area has something similar to this considering the kind of government grants they get to promote the Computer Science department at the historically black university.
Frankly, Howard's got the best CS program in the DC area.
The funding's a good idea, that's for sure. Minorities are severely under-represented in the programming field.
I have been pwned because my
Besides, I've seen XP run slower than other MS operating systems. IMHO, Win2K is the best of MS's offerings so far.
In reality, I use Linux and Mac OS X, both of which run much more stable, secure, and efficient than anything Microsoft has come out with.
Getting back on topic, I have an 802.11b card for my PowerBook. It's not an AirPort card, it's one of those Orinoco cards. Nobody makes OS X drivers for any of their cards except Apple. In order to get this card to work, I had to get open source drivers from http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/ and it works quite well. Compared to the Orinoco drivers under OS 9.2.2, I don't see a difference. So, perhaps before your switch to WinXP there was something misconfigured, or perhaps bloatware or spyware or a virus taking up bandwidth and whatever it was got wiped out during the upgrade. Just a theory.
Hmmm, still not on topic. OK lets try this... This guy in SF is crazy, but in the good way. Maybe someday I'll set up a rediculously-long-distance WAN just for kicks. Hmmm I'm supposed to move within a few months, maybe then ;-}
Could this be a good way to avoid a slashdotting? Straight text and it seems to have no problem serving it. Might be an idea for the future if you've no need for images and your posting a story.
Ham Operators can run big power in this band (hundreds of watts)..and the license is code free.