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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.
easy. you need the wifi speed spray!>
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
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.