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The Wireless Backpack Repeater
Andy Laurence writes "So, you've decided to do a webcast around the streets of Bristol, but your puny wireless NIC isn't up to it? You need the ultimate wireless repeater! Built from an old backpack, a lead acid battery, a Linksys wireless device, and a rather scary antenna, this wireless repeater will get you webcasting from over a mile away." You'd definitely burn extra calories hiking with that thing.
... you won't have to worry about being mugged for it. The police will be watching far too closely.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -- George Orwell
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
>>You need [...] a Linksys wireless device
so now users can hack your rotuer as well with this article!
Joy!
NeoThermic
Use my link above, or to view my server, NeoThermic.com
what else would burn, when someone DoS's you, the router overloads the battery, and the acid leaks all over your back.
I sure hope he has ports 80 & 443 forwarded.
nuff said
I found that my Linksys WAP11 had major problems when I had a router stacked on top of it, I wonder if these guys have had any problems with heating?
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The first thing that popped into my mind when i saw that backpack:
DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS
-S
You just ruined a terribly funny follow up story by telling people this. Shame on you.
Another step in building my gargoyle suit!!
Mikey
I've always been the kinda guy to fall for the girl dressed like an eskimo.
They should see my car with the 3 ham radio antennas on it. Looks like an old Soviet "fishing" trawler. That's scary. Or a stack of single-band multi-element yagi beams for all the HF bands.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
No, not just like you. Some of them DON'T just surf for anal porn!!
Way back when, it used to be a sign that said "kick me".
Now even that went digital.
Man, I'd love to try this when I'm riding round the world on a tiny (250cc) motorcycle. Can't power anything with the bike's magneto though. It'd be great to have a webcast run through a satellite phone. That way /.'ers could watch me die of thirst in the Outback while bitching about my connection and what version of linux I should've been using.
riding round the world on an old motorcycle
Good God, what a wimpy battery. It looks like something from a motorcycle, and a small one at that.
When I was in high school during the height of the CB craze, a kid I knew wired up a full-size truck battery to a CB, mounted it all on a gigantic aluminum backpack frame, and topped it off with a 12-foot whip antenna. The whole contraption probably weighed fifty pounds and brought him all the attention he presumably wanted as he wandered around baseball games wearing the thing, talking on the radio.
The funniest thing? That skinny little kid was about 5 foot nothin' and weighed maybe 90 pounds. The whole rig looked like it was wearing him.
One day, the battery started leaking and getting extremely hot. He stripped off the outfit just in time to avoid any heat or chemical burns, but about half the suit was reduced to a molten pile of plastic.
If you ever need a laugh, check out a toasted 6 foot sub outfit (and no, this wasn't Quizno's *baddum-ching*)
You know what?
The one from which vicious chickens come, judging by the size of that chick repeller.
Come on Brits, that ain't a word.
Yes, it will pump maybe a tenth of its power (perhaps 100mW, tops, so 10mW) into you, which will be converted to heat, cooking you.
Some other things that you should avoid would be flashlights, which can pump upwards of a watt of very concentrated RF into you, or even worse, the sun, which is capable of directing over 500 watts your way, burning you and contributing to your cancer risk!
To prevent this, you should stay away from all electronic devices, especially communication devices, as even an LED or computer monitor may exceed 10mW of radiated power. After all, we want you to live as long as possible. Without hearing from you ever again.