World's Longest Wi-Fi Connection

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World's Longest Wi-Fi Connection

Posted by timothy on Monday January 13, 2003 @10:49PM from the that's-a-long-long-way dept.

axonis writes "The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) announced today that they have transmitted information via a broadband wireless link over a distance of 310km. They believe that this is the longest distance achieved using wireless connectivity. Alvarion (BreezeCom) is also the original consultant to Ericsson for BlueTooth technology"

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kinda knocks the pants off 1km by martyn+s · 2003-01-13 22:51 · Score: 3, Funny

kinda knocks the pants off this 1 km wireless connection
In other news.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-13 22:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Procter and Gamble has announced a giant pringles can intended for a super bowl promotion has been stolen.
Moore's Law in action? by Seehund · 2003-01-13 23:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Whoa! An improvement of 31000% in 7 hours and 28 minutes. ;)

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Dumb LAN kids by andbutso · 2003-01-13 23:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Now there is just going to be stupid shit like LAN parties out in the middle of the desert.
Or maybe people think that's cool
1. Re:Dumb LAN kids by limekiller4 · 2003-01-14 00:11 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  andbutso writes:
  "Now there is just going to be stupid shit like LAN parties out in the middle of the desert."
  
  Burning Man II, Gibbing Boogaloo
  
  I deserve whatever moderation I get for that.
  
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Useless by trynis · 2003-01-13 23:59 · Score: 2, Funny

"The round trip ping response at 300Km was 300-500 mSec."

With this kind of lag you can't play CounterStrike.

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Well, yeah... by peekitty · 2003-01-14 01:36 · Score: 2, Funny

It's super useful! If you need to wirelessly transmit pr0n to a balloon 29km high.