DefCon World Record Wi-Fi as Comic Strip

carbolic writes "Remember last summer's WiFi Shootout, which took place during the DefCon hacker convention? We told you about the world record 55.1 mile shot pulled off by a few guys with two honkingly huge satellite antennas, a long stretch of road, and a couple off-the-shelf Wi-Fi networking cards. This month's Wired magazine condenses the toil of weeks of planning and testing, and trudging up and down mountains in 100+ degree weather into a captivating 8-panel comic suitable for any Sunday Edition (or cubicle wall)."

Comments

8 Panel Cartoon

[Mistlefoot]

Finally an article that'll get read.

If only they were all cartoons.....

Re:8 Panel Cartoon

[Randy Wang]

Truth be told, I'm not sure I have the concentration span necessary to read a whole eight panels. Three would be better, like Dilbert.

Re:8 Panel Cartoon

[jared42]

I wish I could submit my weekly reports at work in this format! Management would pay more attention to the flashy colors, and because I'd have to limit the information to fit into the small number of panels, I'd only have to put in actual highlights. It's a win-win for all!

Now if I could just learn how to draw...

Ummm...

[Duncan3]

For very large values of 8?

WiFi

[Anonymous Coward]

Oi, I cant wait till I start getting WiFi interference from not only the neighborhood, but the neighboring towns!

Re:WiFi

[blowdart]

Wardriving just won't be cool any more, not when you can sit in your front room, in your boxers/tighty whities watching star trek and hacking two towns away.

I'll show them!

[Anonymous Coward]

One of these days I'm going to unveil my super secret long distance antennae. It's several miles in length. I've given it the code name "phone line".

Article Text

[quarrel]

Not to be a karma whore, but in case of the /. effect, here is the complete article text.

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Obligatory Simpsons Quote

[Bryan Gividen]

Worst comic... ever.

And this time it's true....

Re:Poll for Subscriber

[jginspace]

The cartoon sucks and the story is pointless. Are people really paying to see this early?

It isn't a mere "cartoon"; it's a "captivating 8-panel comic suitable for any Sunday Edition (or cubicle wall)."

Some can sniff but I'm busy building myself a cubicle wall so I can pin this up...

Doonsbury

[das_katz_socrates]

This comic is to geeks as Doonsbury is to Democrats.

Re:Poll for Subscriber

[wheany]

This is what I have on my "cubicle wall"

cartoonish

[cabazorro]

I find the story line predictable and the
characters derivative.

howbout some creative wi-fi onomatopoeias!
zziiiing-ding-ding-ding(net stumbler)drrrrrr!

Still as wi-fi goes.
I dig their kung-fu.

Re:So yeah... a comic

[bogie]

Yep, pretty lame. I'll summarize below and save others time.

"Dude, hurry up and setup the antenna"
"Cool it worked"

Yawn. Some things just don't translate well to comics I suppose. And yes I realize all comics aren't supposed to be funny. That was just a really lame comic. Next up. An 8 panel comic where I setup a router and then connect to the Internet. Hazaa!! Think I'll get on Slashdot?

Heck! That ain't nothin'

[lcsjk]

I mounted my two antennas back to back about 4 feet apart, thus transmitting some 25,000 miles around the world and still got a faint signal. Next I'm going to mount them back to back but spaced side to side more so the signal can go around the world twice before it gets to the receiving antenna. If I get a signal this time, I'll know I'm onto something.