5 km Range Commercial Wi-Fi Available

prostoalex writes "Japanese company Maspro Denkoh will start selling transmission systems, enabling WiFi signal over 5 km, Network World magazine reports. From the article: "There are two types of antenna: one is a tube-shaped model about 40 centimeters long, and the other is a much shorter and square-shaped model. Combining two of the tubular antenna -- one on each end of the link -- will result in a transmission distance of about 5 kilometers while one of each antenna will work on distances up to 2 kilometers and two of the compact antenna will be fine for up to a kilometer, the company said.""

Comments

What would the FFC do?

[Brent Spiner]

If this was $5,230 cheaper, and if the FCC wouldn't come after me with a sawed-off shotgun, I'd probably get one of these.

Perfect!

[Anyletter]

Now I can leach off of all my neighboor's networks. We thought American's not using the wep or wap was bad now...just you wait.

Re:So what, lots of other companies have done it..

[pdabbadabba]

I find that they usually don't :)

Re:What about WiMax?

[kfg]

Well, putting aside for the moment that the story has nothing to do with new specifications of any kind:

How many different wireless cards will I need to use all the different technologies. . .

42.

. . .and will they all be integrated into my laptop?

Yeah, but it's going to sting like a son of a bitch.

KFG

Re:Good for Huge Home

[KarmaBlackballed]

If you measure area of your home in units of KM, then YOU THE MAN!