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icypyr0 writes "The Register reports: 'Current dual-mode 802.11 'a' and 'b' access points use only one of Wi-Fi's 11 RF channels at a time, with users taking turns. The Engim chipset can 'see' all 11 at once, and can use the three non-overlapping ones (1, 6 and 11) in parallel, increasing total throughput and enabling features to be incorporated in silicon that are usually implemented, at extra cost and performance degradation, in software.'"
Unfortunately the neighbors decided to microwave a burrito and their throughput went all to hell.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Well, my polish is not that good (except my RPN/RPL) so i'll take your word for it....
....Excuse me, but
How many pollocks did it take to acheive this?
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WOW! 110 Kilometers! What is that, like 500 feet?
Good security is based upon reality and common sense. Common sense is a function of having common knowledge.
I guess using two pringles cans instead of two really did the trick.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
110kms??? What's that in freight trains?
or how many of the sears tower layed on it's side?
Maybe there's hope for me getting a signal down the hall?
Naaaahhhhh.......
I for one find it ironic that someone can detect and possibly decode my WiFi signal from roughly 70 miles (per the new world WiFi record) but I can't get a useable signal on my laptop three rooms away from the WAP.
I wonder how many pringles cans that took.
Good thing they did that in Poland. If they had tried this in the US, they'd have been sued by DirecTV for hacking a satellite TV system and the RIAA for trying to set up a P2P link. Of course, none of this would matter since they'd all be in a 3x2 federal pen cell awaiting for months to be charged with setting up a data link that could be used for terrorism ...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Pshaw! Who needs Arecibo? *My* crappy off-the-shelf 802.11b card can get *infinite* range un-aided! True, picking the signal out from the noise at more than 50ft is proving problematic at present, but once I've ironed out that minor problem I'm well on my way to PROFIT!!!
Or was I the only person paying attention in physics when it was explained how *any* electromagnetic transmission has infinite range, since decaying amplitude in accordance with the inverse square rule never reaches zero? Assuming a perfect vacuum, naturally.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
3603 miles, between me in Paris and my friend Bob in New-York:
My_laptop <-> my_AP <-> The_innurnet <-> Bob's_AP <-> Bob's_laptop
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
You could access that across the English channel!
Yes, and just imagine the improvement when they finally dig the 802.11b tunnel!
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Silly! That's why the expirement was done in Poland! The Earth is still flat out there!
Sig.i>
You also meant "Oops"
It's going to be one of those days, eh?
The earth is flat, sinner.
If the geiger counter does not click, the coffee, she is not thick.
Take up all the channels, get a stronger transmitter, and knock their wireless out!
Well, it's kinda handy when you don't want any, ah, wires.
Except that .11 is cheap and easy to get/ impliment while bluetooth is almost nonexistant.
I do security
They did. It's called the Excursion.
Translation: They're covering the entire 2.4 GHz band, and making no appoligies to anybody else who hoped to use it near their systems. Any 2.4 GHz phones will have nowhere to hide.
There's no need to worry. Thanks to Slashdot, we know that radio spectrum interference is a myth.