Wi-Fi in the Sky

Posted by michael on Saturday May 1, 2004 @03:30PM from the new-heights dept.

mindless4210 writes "In an attempt to have the greatest warflying run to date, members from Daily Wireless, Tom's Hardware, SoCalWUG, and Highlands Highspeed teamed up for an amazing two-plane mission around Southern California. They picked up over 3000 access points and 900 clients, established a point to point link between the two planes, and successfully video conferenced in real time over the connection. This is also the first time that the wireless network detection tool Kismet has been taken up in the air, reporting over twice as many APs as NetStumbler. There is some footage of the flight in divx format available here."

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oh dear by fullofangst · 2004-05-02 10:46 · Score: 0, Troll

That really is the most pointless, useless video ever. Even worse for it being on some kind of computing website.

Sorry Tom's but copying Arstechnica articles without adding anything worthwhile doesn't cut it these days.