125-Mile WiFi Connection

Jason Striegel writes "Team iFibre Redwire smashed the WiFi distance record, successfully linking a distance of over 125 miles at this year's DefCon WiFi Shootout. They maintained a full 11Mbit unamplified connection for 3 hours using Z-com 300mw PCMCIA cards, surplus satellite dishes, Linux, and a great deal of hacker ingenuity. The best part: yesterday afternoon they said that they expect this rig would work at distances of over 300 miles. Here's additional team info, a couple pictures of one of their rigs, and some more technical details." I still wish I could find truly out-of-the-box Linux-friendly USB adapters, so I could get some tiny fraction of this distance, cheap.

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Nice editing...

[evilviper]

And, what? I'm supposed to click on all the links, and just close the ones that don't actually contain the story I'm looking for? Oh right, this is slashdot, you won't want readers to be able to find the story, lest they discover the summaries are usually wrong, and criticize the editors for it...

Of course a link named "DefCon WiFi Shootout" wouldn't be the story, right? It would be info about the event, right? After all, the first link ,which is named "Team iFibre Redwire" is a rather spartan page about the group, and and not a link to the story.

Bad editing on /. is only slightly annoying usually, because most stories only have 2 links. Now, with about a dozen terribly non-descript links, it's getting awfully bad, making several recent /. stories unreadable.