Oil-Cooling 802.11 Infrastructure

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 16, 2003 @09:08AM from the unusual-means-admirable-end dept.

gomoX writes "A group of 802.11b fans in Tordera, Spain, are running a wireless node on the roof of a building, with the idea of a free wireless network for everyone on the neighbourhood. Its a system running linux with a home made can antenna, mounted on a plastic tool box in the roof. To keep it cool under the sun and protect it from rain, wind, they have immersed it into vegetable oil (yes, the whole thing). As oil is non-conductive, everything should run fine. The site is in Spanish, here is the google translation and the google cache."

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Re:Just one thing. by RighteousFunby · 2003-03-16 09:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Oh yeah, FP!!! I got FP!!!! w00t! (if of course, to be FP you have to be first with your threshold set to 3)...:D

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Re:Thermal runaway by wackybrit · 2003-03-16 11:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The sig was in need of an update, so thanks to you, Sir, it has.

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