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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. Gentoo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I use Gentoo; how does this affect me??

    1. Re:Gentoo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The wifi link will turn all computers in a 50Km radius of the Wifi links into Gentoo boxen, making an X-Grid of them, supercharging emerge times. OpenOffice will now just take 20 seconds to compile but Gnome will still take 5 hours since Havoc pennington dosent like clustering and he will FORCE your computer to use just one machine.

    2. Re:Gentoo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      awesome dude thanks for the secret inside info!!!!!

  2. Re:Look up and down this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll not argue with you that Linux is fronted by a pack of losers with hygiene problems, speech impediments, gun fixations, and other assorted social problems. But please! NONE of those "bsd babes" are even _remotely_ attractive! Are those scraggly hags the best you bsd hippies could drag from the sewers to a photoshoot? Gag!

  3. I hate sites that user the underline tag by gregm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I keep trying to click on "links" that are underlined for no real reason.

  4. Re:Alahachem harim kabool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a/s/l?

  5. defcon ? by ImaRootofALLEVIL · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wasnt that like 6 months ago ?

    infact i went to defcon, it was 6 months ago !

  6. Re:Look up and down this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    losers [nylug.org] like these.

    Poor guys. They should have noticed by now that most of their hits come from Slashdot, shouldn't they?

  7. Great editing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So, let's see, this old, inaccurate, repeated story gets posted, and I get rejected for my fresh, titillating, informative piece. Great editing, guys!

  8. 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.