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Wireless Mesh Network Trial in the UK

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-we-only-had-a-wireless-topic dept.

Huw writes "With cable only in selected areas and ADSL only available within three miles of selected telephone exchanges, residents of the South Wales valleys are pretty much stuck with dial up connections to access the internet. BT may have the answer with a wireless solution according to this article from the BBC. Quite how wireless networking will cope with a hilly area like this remains to be seen, but hopefully we'll soon see broadband available for anyone who wants it." The company home page has some more information about their system.

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  1. Wow, 3 AC posts first! Where is the CLIT????? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Probably all sucking down Taco's c0ck!

  2. Wow! Everyone hates WIPO! Both of them! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whats better? Apparently more people like domain-name rapists than they like fæces-obsessed crapflooders. Could this be possible?

    On a related note, no one likes Trollaxor. Poor troll...

  3. Packet sniffers don't care by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 0, Troll
    What does that have to do with the price of rice in china?

    A packet sniffer will pick up a packet whether you pull it out of the aether over a wireless link, or by connecting to an insecure switch downstream. What the signal is carried on does not matter. If it routes on the internet it, by definition, can be sniffed, dissected, and disseminated.

    Weather may be their problem, a profound misunderstanding of technology is yours. At least the weather will clear up on its own.

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    "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
    --Dr.W.Edwards Deming