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5 Cool Wireless Reseach Projects

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the welcome-to-sunday-morning dept.

Bob B writes "Including an effort by MIT researchers to exploit dense urban networks of existing Wi-Fi access points to create municipal wireless networks rather than relying on EarthLink and cities to fund and build such wireless projects. Secure tunneling is the secret sauce for making it work and not making wireless AP owners liable for miscreants who might use the bandwidth, the researchers say."

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  1. Reseach projects... by jalet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are they related to spelling checkers ?

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  2. Re:Downside? by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, if you are checking your email with bittorrent, you are doing it wrong.

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  3. "Secure Tunnelling?" by LM741N · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't that how the gophers communicated so efficiently in Caddyshack?