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Posted by michael on from the road-trip dept.

Big Dave Diode writes "A cool story about what happens when a bunch of bored nerds with a lot of wireless equipment takes a road trip. Intervehicle networking at 65 mph!"

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  1. Thats old by orki · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://review.lanwahn.at/php-cgi/gallery/view_albu m.php?set_albumName=autobahnwahn2002 here are some more pics from an highwaylan from austria (may not all of u understand german) but pictures say more than 1000words

  2. Re:Obvious use - Voice by jbridges · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cell phones cost money per minute, and as you may have read in the article, their Cell service was uneven, the WAN was far more reliable (connected 99% of the time). Those are a couple pretty big downsides to Cell.

    Also Voice over IP is as good as your bandwidth.

    With their WAN they could VASTLY exceed the sound quality of any Cell phone. If they could stream MP3s, all they had to do is encode MP3 realtime from an external Mic and Voila, Voice over IP.

  3. Re:Yet again.... by optikSmoke · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Let's face it: they just wanted to access their pr0n while on the road.

    at 9600 bps?
    Come on, Captian Janeway......

  4. How about a wireless server in a school bus? by Pfhor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My highschool Shackleton spends about 1/2 a year on the road. We have iBooks with wireless. We drive big school busses across the country, where a lot of productive work could be done. So I put together a wireless fileserver consisting of an airport basestation, a quantum snap drive, and a 5 port 10/100 switch (for wired connections, backups, etc.). Attach that to a UPS and then to an invertor, and students could work on the server from any laptop with a wireless connection, no more worrying about which laptop they saved their files on.

    It was originally a p90 with 48 megs of ram and a crossover cable to the basestation. I would have loved to use a SBC with a wireless card and a laptop drive for better size / power usage, but I didn't have the time for a custom hacked job, which I didn't want to have to support when I graduated.