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Cringely: Wi-Fi in the Sky

Posted by michael on from the blackhawk-down dept.

Boiled Frog writes "In Cringely's latest article, he describes his plan to test a wi-fi connection between his house and his plane using two LinkSys 802.11g routers. He plans to experiment with various antennas to see which works the best."

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  1. Re:from the blackhawk-down dept.!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Learn some manners, michael.

    Manners are dead. The knife in the back hefted by our Prez and his Vice-Barbarian.

    So fuck off.

    Oh wait... Kindly fuck off.

  2. Re:from the blackhawk-down dept.!?! by JPelorat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hyperventilating like that all the time will damage your sinuses.

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  3. Re:from the blackhawk-down dept.!?! by JPelorat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And cultivating impotent rage will give you ulcers.

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  4. Re:from the blackhawk-down dept.!?! by afidel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually Black Hawk Down wasn't at all loosly based, it does a pretty damn good job of telling the story according to all survivors I've heard interviewed. I agree that the OP was a bit oversensitive but perhaps he has a close friend or relative in the military who was recently lost. It's not hard to imagine with ~1,000 dead and many times that injured due to our president "correcting" dady's mistake.

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  5. Re:from the blackhawk-down dept.!?! by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    The movie itself was more a slap in the face to the men killed in the real life events to which it makes reference than anything Michael writes could ever be.

    How do you figure that? I haven't heard of any criticism towards the movie being inaccurate. Did I miss something?
  6. why do you continue to point traffic at this guy? by hazehead · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    His previous "mountain repeater" claim was debunked as an out-and-out lie, I believe that's why he took down his forums. He has little grasp on the details behind wireless technology, why increase his stature as a tech pundit with a link from Slashdot?

  7. Use the Cisco 1200 AP by GPLDAN · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He's using the Sveasoft and two Linksys devices to accomplish something that would be much easier to do using the radio management features of a Cisco 1200 AP and Cisco PCMCIA NIC card. You can measure path loss directly from the utilities that ship with the firmware.

    The TNC connectors support a huge variety of antennas with different dbm characteristics and the radio wattage adjustments in the 1200 mean he could keep himself entertained for days. He's going to spend a grand in fuel just taking off, landing, adjusting, and taking off again. Spend it on a device that does the job better instead of going for the cheap shit.

    This Cringely, is he the guy on PBS? He doesn't seem real bright.