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New Phased-Array AP Boosts 802.11b Range
ttul writes "Vivato, a well-funded wireless startup, today came out of stealth mode to announce its "WiFi" switch product, a super high performance 802.11b access point that uses an array of hundreds of antennas to provide wide-area coverage to standard 802.11b clients. See stories at Wired,
and The New York Times. Vivato's new AP completely changes the economics of WiFi especially for providers such as FatPort and WayPort, who now have the technology to deliver 11Mbps to your laptop even if you're miles from a location -- it's the Jetson's, folks!"
This appears to be a dup of a story that is still on the main page... And to think, they get paid for this.
I suppose something radically changed since this morning. Folks at Vivato must be amazed, getting two front page stories in a single day.
What is this, CNN's Headline news?..all the news, the same news, every half hour!
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
This company will surely fail. Its technology isnt taking into account laptop joggers, laptop motorcyclists, laptop unicyclists. And leisure, urban helicopterists and skydivers...
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They are testing one of these new access point to distribute stories. Slashdot had the antenna's pointed to the east coast when the first story was posted. Now they are aimed at the west coast. While the range of coverage for slashdot is much greater now, folks in the midwest will have to deal with the resulting duplicate packets^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hstories
Fuck war driving - try war standing around and hopping on to x number of nets!
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Slashdot was able to boost its reach of certain articles by a factor of 2. Says slashdot editor, Timothy, "The results are very impressive and the technique was surprisingly simple. All we had to do to double the readership for a particular article was to post it once in the morning, and again at night. If our /. readers are anything like the editors, most of them are too lazy to read more than the top couple of articles. If they happened to miss the morning edition of /. we can rebroadcast a "best of /." again in the evening so our lazy readers don't miss out and all the action here."
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Hell, even I don't read it anymore. I just go into meta-moderation and reply at random to whatever comments come up.
What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.-Edward Abbey
Whenever /. posts a repeat story, one quick way
of getting extra karma is to go through the original story, and repost the highest scoring posts.
This usually gets by the editors too, as we all know that they never read other /. stories.
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(probably looked like a dork walking around running a constant ping on my thinkpad)
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My neighbor got worried enough to poke their heads out and ask me what I was doing when I mapped my network range
It was... fun... explaining I was accessing the internet.
I live in a giant bucket.
The irony is that these people are being modded Redundant for pointing out that this story is Redundant.
... war driving from the comfort of your living room.
Apparently they didn't get slashdotted this morning, time for round two. Ding Ding Ding.
Now I have to upgrade to phased-array chalk for my warchalking efforts!
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