DEFCON WiFi Shootout Winners Set A Land Record

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 3, 2004 @11:52PM from the congratulations-all-'round dept.

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.)

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i have a dream by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-03 23:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

i dream of a world of dongs
Boring. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-03 23:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

nt.
Metrics is a Milestone away by Barryke · 2004-08-03 23:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I cant see why miles are used. Is it to make the achieved distance look longer?

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1. Re:Metrics is a Milestone away by lachlan76 · 2004-08-04 00:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Ummm....perhaps because in the US, it seems like alot of you don't know how far a kilometer is.
  
  I use metric though (Australia). Don't know how you USAnians do without it.