LA Cops get Wi-Fi Drive By Access

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 23, 2003 @03:02AM from the how-long-before-the-warchalking-starts dept.

An anonymous reader writes " A PC World.com article: "the Los Angeles Police Department plans to install 27 wireless local area networks (WLANs) at police stations throughout the city in the next three months, according to Roger Ham, deputy chief for communications at the LAPD. Ham says he plans to equip police cars with handheld computers from Symbol Technologies. The handheld devices will be equipped with 802.11b WLAN cards that communicate in the unlicensed 2.4-GHz band with access points installed in police stations at a raw data rate of 11 megabits per second-far faster than the 19.2-kilobits-per-second throughput in the department's 800-MHz wide area network (WAN) installed by Motorola two years ago and covering the city. Will Strauss, an analyst at Forward Concepts, called Ham's plan "a cheap way to get bandwidth" that would allow LAPD units to periodically pick up high-bandwidth data as they pass by police stations equipped with WLAN systems."

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Pardon Moi. by The+Ape+With+No+Name · 2003-03-23 05:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Laissez-moi vous donner un autre non-sequitur sur lequel vous pouvez examiner vos grandes puissances intellectuelles! D'ailleurs, j'ai un pénis, je l'ai employé sur votre mère la nuit passée!

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Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.