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1KM 802.11b @ 2MB
OffTheRack writes "Check out this web site to see how a guy in Egypt built his own line-of-site (H:Get? It's Punny.) 1KM broadband connection. Plenty of nice pictures." Pretty cool set-up.
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Plenty of nice pictures. not for long.
this site has been up for several years, back when the pringles can first came out, sheesh, get some new contenct (like those cool dlink repeaters for 802.11b)
come comment on the madness at http://slashdot.org/~phreak03/journal/
"Line-of-site" is what the surveyors drew along an edge of a pyramid which was to be built.
I feel my children growing third arms, though they be but little swimmers in my special place.
Download pr0n and kill some birds at the same time!
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
With a little more power you can get 11Mb/s AND cook your chicken.
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
I was melting out in the sands of North Africa. Y'know, I had this stupid home connection even though I had expensive broadband at my OWN cafe. Like, bummer. Yeah, it was like, I was a haiwan in my own backyard.
Me-wann' download quicky-quicky now!
And that's why I got a Macintosh.
My name is Hassan Adly, and I own an internet cafe.
I sure hope they don't get serious electrical storms in Egypt, or this fellow may find himself with a big problem on his LAN.
If your kids are gonna have 3rd arms, keep your little swimemrs outa the gene pool, keep reading slashdot.
Anyone else picture WAPs on the tops of all the pyramids when you read the summary?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
After who knows how much time spent on planning and building the project, he finally gets it working, much to his delight: ...these antennae from the start looked as if they meant business, and indeed they did, because as soon as they were installed and properly aimed, they produced a 2Mbps signal at 1km distance. Hurrah! Me do download at home quicky-quicky now!
But, like a true geek,
Future mods:
I am beginning to suspect that my choice of coca-cola cans as reflectors on the Yagi antennae may be affecting signal quality (hence the maximum speed of only 2Mbps). Hence I am looking for a flat-based can that has the same diameter as the coca-cola can.
It works! It's perfect! Now let's take it apart merely for the sake of making it faster!
I guess "quicky-quicky" just isn't quick enough.
only solve the last 3/4 mile problem then? what about that last 1/4 mile?
Best quote from the article:
"Me-wann' download quicky-quicky now!"
No one has come to the defense of Pringles yet!
He quite plainly accuses of making him sick for days. I figured some geek would be defending their favorite snack food by now.
I guess you can't just dive into two cans. Without a digestive system attuned to American junk food, you have to work your way in slowly.
Either that or those pringles could easily have been off. He looked for them for days, who knows how long they'd been around and what summer in the desert does to them.
And I second the observation - clean text no advertisements, what is this the web circa 1996.
Ick
Thank you, Slashdot, for making me the man^H^H^Hboy I am today.
And as everybody knows you get more chicks if you can tell the difference.
:wq
I would say this practice deserves the name 'Google wacking' a lot more than that silly game with two words and one hit.
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Am I the only person who glanced at this headline and thought that Slashdot was posting headinlines in leet?
Thats probably why you got modded to +5 funny.
...ducks!
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
The only downside being that since hes not used to western syle junk food he got sick eating the pringles.
I think his pipe idea was better since that will probably last longer..
whee.........
This guy has a page hit counter at the bottom of his page, it's quite funny to refresh it and watch it go up extremely fast. 45845... 45900... and so on.
I am a filthy pirate.
Under no circumstances should you eat more than a few Pringles at a time! After eating a canful I was positively sick, to the point that all antenna construction was halted for two days!
Sounds like he got the Olestra version...(although even the regular pringles are pretty damn greasy)