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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. The summary text... by SuperBanana · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...is a great example of why TCP/IP has re-transmission. Now if only they'd implement duplicate story rejection...

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