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FCC Approves 802.11b Phased Array

Posted by timothy on from the wear-your-lead-apron dept.

n6zfx writes "802.11b Networking News is reporting that vivato received FCC approval for the 802.11b AP that has a range of 4 miles... This was discussed recently here on slashdot -- There were comments that it might not be totally legal. Hopefully, this paves the way for more WISPs, bigger hotspots, and replacement of outdated wireless technology that seemed to be the only competitor to DSL and tv-cable for the last mile."

13 of 157 comments (clear)

  1. first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry

  2. Re:High effect by tigress · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I dunno. Is its effect higher than the two watts normally found in a standard cellphone?

  3. Another RPN example by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    work out (e^(4* (2+11) + 5/3)/(5-1/2*7) + 6) / 2

    RPN:

    2 Enter 11 + 4 * 5 Enter 3 / exp + 1 Enter 2 / 7 * chs 5 + / 6 + 2 /

    23 keystrokes, vs

    ( exp ( 4 * ( 2 + 11 ) + 5 / 3 ) / (5-1/2*7) +6)/2=

    32 keystrokes

    Learn RPN today!

    26 keystrokes

  4. Re:Retarded. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have been to the future, and yes it will.

  5. It's 5:30 AM... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What are you doing up this late (or early)? Just curious.

    (Yes, I know it's offtopic.)

    1. Re:It's 5:30 AM... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sniff sniff. Smells like troll. Ah well. I'll bite.

    2. Re:It's 5:30 AM... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The US isn't the only place in the world. Those timezone thingies go from +12 to -12. So somewhere in the world it's always noon. Amazing eh?

  6. Phaser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fire up the phaser arrays, Cap'n!

  7. Re:My child has grown a third leg . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No problem...unless your child is a girl. In that case it's time to look up "shemale".

  8. 123 by RomikQ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    123

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  9. TWO TOWERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OH FUCK, two towers is a failure on big screen..... what do i do now? what now?????? I feel so fucking devastated now...

  10. Moment of truth - GURU opens his mouth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Girls are like internet domain names. The ones I like are already taken.

  11. Re:Good for Bandwidth Co-ops (offtopic) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Reminds me too much of idiots who use USB for cd burners and the like. Then they wonder why the mouse cursor is unresponsive.
    I have a USB plextor cd burner and it works great.
    I can burn a cd
    write to /dev/dsp
    while reading the source .wav file from a NFS partition
    and running X locally
    . All this on a 133mhz Toshiba Protégé 300CT laptop with very low latency..
    not to shabby..
    -greg