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DEFCON WiFi Shootout Winners Set A Land Record
bscience writes "While attending the DEFCON 12 convention this past weekend I had the chance to see the standing ovation a group of 19 year olds received for establishing a 55.1 mile unamplified WiFi connection!" A snippet from the Wired story linked there: "Mobile warriors having trouble making a wireless connection across the hall might want to give some Ohio teens a call. This weekend they were able to make a 55-mile Wi-Fi connection. ... They might have achieved an even greater distance, Justin Rigling said, "but there was no road left."" (Here's the post from a few weeks back about the competition.)
Well, if someone parked outside my building, pointed a six foot dish at my office, and told me my wireless data needed encrypting, I'd probably freak out too.
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Am I the only one who find it amusing that these guys roll in on a whim, break the record, win some stuff and immediately go hawk their equipment?
Some good old hacking spirit right there...
I touch computers in naughty places
1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers or for those of you who are into microelectronics it's 1609344000000 nanometers.
"It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad."
0.1 bit/s. They were actually doing smoke signals. (Don't grumble, it counts as unamplified wireless)
This year they faced only the heat and the absence of bathrooms and fresh beer for miles around.
that's just a tragedy.
Miles on the speedometer, miles on the road signs, and 55 mph is a common speed limit, so that 55 mile record means I could drive about an hour away and still get the signal, which in Ohio would be the complete middle of nowhere! Of course, in Ohio it doesn't even matter where you start from, if you drive for exactly one hour in the same direction at 55 mph you will be in the middle of nowhere.
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From the article:
Wired magazine helped sponsor the contest.
What's the word? Irony? Misnomer?
"When it rains, it pours." --Morton's Salt
not a fraud, just that you are stupid.
Read thre article instead of sounding like a turets victim spouting stupidity from your face.
Fresnel means nothing in directed DISH communications.. they had approximately 200db of gain at BOTH ENDS plus there was a tiny issue of BEING ON A FRICKING MOUNTIAN for the Z end.
wow, your immense stupidity is blinding... The stupidness field you are generating is destorying the minds that are around you.
I vote netgear as the superior AP as i can get an excellent connection on my unsuspecting neighbors network. And I live in a very old apartment building with concrete walls a foot thick and theres a stairwell between me and the closest neighbor:)
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No matter how thin you slice it, its still baloney.