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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. What slashdot needs ... by The+AtomicPunk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is some form of punishment both for people that submit, and people that repost, duplicates.

    Especially in this case, when said submitter claims it's "last weekend" when in fact it occured last summer, and was all over Slashdot at the time.