New WiFi Link Distance Record

Espectr0 writes "A Venezuelan professor along with his team have set a new record for the longest WiFi link. Using commodity hardware, they established a connection between a PC in El Águila, Venezuela, and one in Platillón Mountain, a distance of about 237 miles. The previous record was 193 miles. Slides [PDF] are also available."

Comments

Way off topic: Operating systems

[Kjella]

I think operating systems are evolving too fast. I mean, I would have killed to have Windows XP in the 90s. Mac OS X is a completely different beast than earlier Mac OS versions. Once we get down to plain old preference things might change, but for now I need there are actual quality differences going on. As in, X solves this vastly superior to Y for almost everyone. For example, x.org are doing some major changes to support input/output hotplugging etc. in the next release which I look forward to. To me it's what Windows vs Mac vs Linux vs *BSD offer NOW, and that might change within a few years. For example, right now I'm underwhelmed with Vista but if DX10 is a big hit for games I might change my mind. Macs always have new tricks up their sleeve, KDE4 is looking good but not due for several months as 4.0.0 and probably not very solid until over Christmas. So no, I won't make any promises to stick with X because in a year or two it can have been surpassed by Y and Z. To me, operating systems aren't a religion.