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Larry,
New WiFi Record: 237 Miles! http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/0..._record_2.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G The WRT54G is notable for being the first consumer-level network device that had its firmware source code released to satisfy the obligations of the GNU GPL. This allows programmers to modify the firmware to change or add functionality to the device. Several development projects have been started to provide the public with enhanced firmware for the WRT54G. See Third party firmware projects. This could be usefull for boaters at a shorter range if it can be made not so directional, I wonder how it would work out to Catalina island, must try that some day ![]() |
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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/0..._record_2.html Wow....Love those big beams and MOUNTAIN TOPS! Lucky for him he's in backwater Venezuela where there must be very few wifi broadcasts going on, otherwise he'd not have stood a chance over the noise.....(c; Now that airliners allow you to run your laptop in your seat, see what I mean by "noise". Go to: http://www.stumbler.net and download Net Stumbler, a sort of scanner/logger/map interface software to search out wifi nodes. Install it on your laptop. As you're taxiing down the runway, boot it up and watch what happens as the plane lifts off over the city. Net Stumbler will go berserk above 100' as the plane climbs out until you get to about 3000' where the distance to the little routers is too attenuated to hear them any more. You'll get thousands of hits per minute! That's the noise he DIDN'T have for this feat. They were too far up the mountain to receive the noise coming in from the city below....(c; Larry -- http://www.spp.gov/ The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP |
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![]() On 21-Jun-2007, Larry wrote: wrote in : http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/0..._record_2.html Wow....Love those big beams and MOUNTAIN TOPS! Lucky for him he's in backwater Venezuela where there must be very few wifi broadcasts going on, otherwise he'd not have stood a chance over the noise.....(c; Now that airliners allow you to run your laptop in your seat, see what I mean by "noise". Go to: http://www.stumbler.net and download Net Stumbler, a sort of scanner/logger/map interface software to search out wifi nodes. Install it on your laptop. As you're taxiing down the runway, boot it up and watch what happens as the plane lifts off over the city. Net Stumbler will go berserk above 100' as the plane climbs out until you get to about 3000' where the distance to the little routers is too attenuated to hear them any more. You'll get thousands of hits per minute! That's the noise he DIDN'T have for this feat. They were too far up the mountain to receive the noise coming in from the city below....(c; Larry -- http://www.spp.gov/ The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP I have Net Stumbler, just driving around here (LA county) it is nuts. It seams every house has WIFI! Joe N. |
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