While 802.11b is the current defacto technology for these people (its the *only* technology easily available;) the IEEE 802.16 standard, when it comes out, should overcome many concerns relating to range and third-party hacks to increase range. Why? Because it is being designed especially for Wireless *Metropolitan* Area Networks (WMAN).
Once thise standard is finalised, it will be interesting to see whether or not it is usable by the public, its entirely possible that it could be solely targetted (in terms of pricing/availability) at corporations.
What matters though is that the fact that the IEEE are developing the standard- this means that such networks are possible. And since the 802 suite of standards are all alike in many ways, it should be easily possible to 'bend' current 802.11b offerings to these purposes.
Read more at:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/16/
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/
Slashdot Mirror
using lower gpl solves the problem of 'corrupting' apple proprietry code while achieving gpl-compatability. Where is the flaw in this reasoning?
While 802.11b is the current defacto technology for these people (its the *only* technology easily available ;) the IEEE 802.16 standard, when it comes out, should overcome many concerns relating to range and third-party hacks to increase range. Why? Because it is being designed especially for Wireless *Metropolitan* Area Networks (WMAN).
Once thise standard is finalised, it will be interesting to see whether or not it is usable by the public, its entirely possible that it could be solely targetted (in terms of pricing/availability) at corporations.
What matters though is that the fact that the IEEE are developing the standard- this means that such networks are possible. And since the 802 suite of standards are all alike in many ways, it should be easily possible to 'bend' current 802.11b offerings to these purposes.
Read more at:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/16/
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/