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Lanlink Linking The Coasts
Dan Bricker writes "A guy in Parma Heights, Ohio has a website to promote an idea of linking the east coast to the west coast using standard off-the-shelf 802.11 equipment. He is aiming for a July 4th, 2006 first coast-to-coast ping. This project appears to be totally volunteer based, With no other stated reason than fun with pringle cans and bad weather, and do it just to do it. Can this be done? What real world applications does this have?"
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I truly think that the geeks of America could do this. After all, they wouldn't have to actually stand next to each other, just within a hotspot radius...
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A group of amatures has decided to prevent future energy problems in California. The plan is to route extension cords, connected serially, to California from a power plant on the east coast. When asked if the extension cords could handle the force, they said that it wasn't for everyone, mainly a proof of concept. They made no comment to the argument that there wouldn't be hardly any current left in California. They are taking donations of extension cords of all kinds. "Just as long as it has a ground pluggy thing"
invest in some blue chip stock, but I think I'll ivest in some obscure potato chip company instead. :p
"Second Internet" - Man, how cool would that be... a completely underground (reverse pun intended... gettit... it's overgrou... oh never mind) Internet, detatched from the 'real' one...
In case of an all out war, the 'real' internet may be shut down, but this air based one could keep on keeping on... although without electricity after the war, only as long as all the laptop batteries lasted... so really only about 1 hour after the strike... just long enough for the users to start a thread:
"Woh! What was that?"
"Dunno... kinda bright though"
"Dude... I think this is bad"
"Yup"
"BBFN"
So...um...this would be called LANs Across America?
/me ducks and runs for cover.
Ron
He is aiming for a July 4th, 2006 first coast-to-coast ping.
Considering the latency, I'd aim for July 4th, 5th, and 6th.
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No more pringles cans.
Are we talking about a giant, shared, 10mbs pipe across the US that we could all use together? Wow, that would really last for at least 10 seconds. Talk about /. effect....
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Well, at least *sit* within a hotspot's radius...