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15-Mile Wi-Fi Shot At 4 Mbps Up and Down

Posted by timothy on from the special-conditions dept.

DarnComputers writes "5G Wireless (FGWC) announced that it has documented a long distance Wi-Fi shot of 15 miles at a throughput of 4Mbps upload and download speed. The shot was completed this last weekend, in a competitive Wi-Fi shootout at the Defcon convention in Las Vegas, Nev. There were many participants with both commercial-grade and homemade entries in a variety of categories at Defcon's first annual Wi-Fi shootout.http://home.earthlink.net/~wifi-shootout/"

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  1. Last weekend? by LinuxGeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    This story was posted last summer. Check the dates on the linked page...

    --

    Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
  2. Last weekend ? or more like a few dozen Weekends ? by kbsingh · · Score: 5, Informative

    Defcon is usually end of summer kinda things... the 2004 Defcon is posted for July 30th - 4th Aug 2004.

    I remember looking at this story a while back - and the same page was linked. might be worth looking back on ./

  3. Cardboard and tinfoil antennas by yppiz · · Score: 5, Informative
    I built a copy of the cardboard antenna that the winning team used at the core of their mongo-horn. It turns out that the design is quite robust (that is, even I can make it) and with just the amount of cardboard you'd get from two standard 16"x16" boxes, it's possible to make a 16db gain directional antenna.

    What 16db means in terms of wireless use is than instead of picking up 4 access points from a rooftop using Netstumbler, I saw 40 different access points, including the BAWRN public node over eight miles away (with clear line of sight but an enormous amount of clutter in the fresnel zone).

    I used this design from Seattlewireless.net

    I strongly recommended trying this as a project. It's easy and pretty cool.

    --Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

  4. Wireless Homebrew Website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a website for homebrew/amateur radio related wireless experimenting. It covers the construction of homebrew amplifiers, antennas, receiving converters, etc. They also have path analysis and line-of-sight analysis CGI utilities.

    Green Bay Professional Packet Radio