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New Wi-Fi Distance Record Set In Utah
cold_sake writes "Wireless guru Rob Flickenger details the known records for Wi-Fi link distances on his latest blog. Included is a new distance record for an un-amplified Wi-Fi link, set by the students of Utah's Weber State University. 82 miles was accomplished with 802.11b."
In other news, new cases of cancer have appeared all over the Weber State University campus.
Figures the Mormons would perfect this technology ... Gotta get those RFID tags tags ready for all the Polygamists' wives
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A new distance record for an un-amplified Wi-Fi link, set by the students of Utah's Weber State University. 82 miles was accomplished with 802.11b.
Sources within Utah's Weber State University state that this amazing feat was accomplished with the aid of an 82 mile long antenna, laid horizontally along the ground toward the Wi-Fi node.
(Yes, dammit, I didn't read the article...)
They set up one wireless access point with the SSID set to the default 'Linksys'.
And many, many miles away they turned on their windows machine, and voila! There it was, the WAP with the SSID 'Linksys', wide open just as they had left it!
The Internet is generally stupid
Jeez, with that kind of range wardrivers no longer need to back the Chevy Tahoe out of the garage.
Just out of curiosity, they didn't happen to link to an SSID named 'linksys', and think it was the right network, did they? :)
That must be one hell of a pringle can..
SCO servers were shut down in an apparent hacking attack via Linux drone computers bypassing security with a hyperbundle of Pringles cans...
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From the article (yes, the article):
After verifying signal strength and quality the group in Bluffdale prepared an MP3 file for file transfer.
So this was really just a way to evade file-sharing restrictions on the campus network?
Actually I've been following these experiments.
They bounced the signal off Darl McBride's head, and the resulting distortion caused a rip in the fabric of space-time. That's why some reports have 72 miles and others 83. There was some heavy magnetomoronic craniorectal inversion in the signal.
This is similar to wind-aided records in track and field, and so the methods will have to be retested after Darl returns to his home planet.
sigs, as if you care.
after driving through utah I woudl say it's abotu the onl place desolate enough and rid of any disturbance be it microwave or otherwise. My cell phone was dead for about 2/3 of the drive. I think it's teh I80 or I70 or I76 no exits no trees no cars nothing just rocks.
I can feel some of the effects of the experiment even from here and hey... I live in NYC!
Do you think they got the plans for it by reading off some gold plates in a hat?
New Wi-Fi Connection Record Set In Utah... .... most permanent connections to a single node...
Gentlemen, you'll both recall I made fun of each of your respective "observations" in aforementioned article threads prior to either of your discovering the other and certainly before this latest silly debate.
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..from earth to the planet that Darl McBride is living in. It'll be a loooooooong time before any one is able to get a distance greater than that ;)
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