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1KM 802.11b @ 2MB

Posted by Hemos on from the if-you-build-it,-your-costs-will-fall dept.

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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  1. Why is this a big deal ?? by netnerd.caffinated · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Egypt is pretty flat, so LOS is easy. All you need is an AP & a Pringles can.
    Now if they were wiring all the pyramids with net access or something. then that would be cool.

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  2. amazing by satsuke · · Score: 5, Insightful

    amazing - a site that has all

    Clear text
    Clear reference links
    adequate pictures
    interesting topic matter

    and no popups or ads

    Sounds like the internet around 1995 .. when you could use lynx and download individual gifs and view them without problem ..

  3. Re:The sad thing by tealover · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How sad. The Egyptian guy comes from a nation that has an illustrious history and a civilization that predates yours by oh....a couple thousand years, and you come up with such a stereotypical "joke".

    It's no wonder the "2nd World" nations resent the West. We hold them down and put them down at any chance.

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  4. What's wrong with Yagis? by 4ginandtonics · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Points:
    1. Don't use linksys, esp. for backhaul
    2. Don't use yagis, horrable FBR (mabey 4:1, if your lucky)

    But that's the beauty of Yagis. Front to back ratio. You get signal rejection from the back side of the antenna, that you don't want to hear anyway.

  5. Oh Come On! Wire the PYRAMIDS?! by Myriad · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Now if they were wiring all the pyramids with net access or something. then that would be cool.

    Why? Do you feel that while you are checking out the bowels of Khufu's pad you'll suddenly really need to check your E-Mail on that little PDA?

    If the answser is Yes to the above question you need to logout right now and run (don't walk) away from the computer. You are hearby banned from all eletronic gizmo's for the period of 48 hours.

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  6. not really amazing. by twitter · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Why be amazed at the lack of spam? That's the way you would make a web site, right? What's amazing is that this dude in Bum#@!$ Egypt can get nice service like that and, ta-da, run a web site, where most people in the US have to beg their ISP or Tripod or some other advert hole for 10 big megs of space. Pay once to get on the toll road then run to CandadaISP or some such to get hosted. What's amazing is that my ISP should forbid me to use my cable modem to serve. If I were to serve, it might get in the way of someone else's adverts, what a sin. OK OK, enough of my whining.

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  7. Yawnnnn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    1Km is nothing - there are those that done 30miles+ using parabollic dish antenna. Hell, even my 802.11 with a 15dbi omni on top of the roof reach 5 miles.

    The secret is in the cable (LMR400 or LMR600) and the right antenna.

  8. Re:Article boycott by Shanep · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is not a matter of legality, it is completely legal for Slashdot to link to this sites, but I believe it is in the moral duty and mere common decency for Slashdot to figure out some way to not fry some of these webservers.

    Huh? Moral duty? It would be nice if /. would cache a page before posting a story (after requesting approval if copyrighted) and maybe including real links for future reference.

    But moral obligation?

    Piss off webmasters? Do they post web sites in the hope that as few people as possible see them? If that were the case, they ought to have private sections.

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  9. Re:128 bit encryption internationally? by fiftyfly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    mmm, trying, trying - nope . I still don't give a fuck what the US considers 'legal'

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