Garage Tinkerers Claim Wireless Last-Mile Solution

Posted by timothy on Monday June 10, 2002 @01:12AM from the believe-when-it's-under-the-tree dept.

BrianWCarver writes: "The NYTimes is reporting that two guys in their garage have designed a low-cost wireless broadband solution that can transmit up to 20 miles. (A previous story described a 7km achievement in Australia.) Their company is called Etherlinx and they use the Wi-Fi 802.11b standard in a repeater antenna that people can attach to the outside of their homes. The technology, which apparently costs under $100, has been operating in a small for-pay trial in Oakland, CA for a year. Is this a solution to the 'last-mile' problem, hope for rural areas, and the death of cable/DSL? Read and be the judge."

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But what about the health effects by binkless · 2002-06-10 01:34 · Score: 0, Troll

It's well known that WiFi causes cancer and affects peoples brain waves and sleeping patterns. Studies by the Sweedish Public Health authorities have confirmed all of this in detail. The wireless industry has been successfull in surpressing all of this for years, but once the cable providers hear they're about to get cut off, all of it will suddenly become public, causing a flood of testimonials about dead relatives to appear on Oprah. The invisible microwave menace is about to be exposed, and we'll all be able to return to a happier time when radiation induced mental illness was unknown and nobody lived long enough to contract cancer.