Now I want my landlord to let me put up a dish
San Diego wireless net installs 72-mile, 2.4-GHz link. San Diego County High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN), plans and develops wireless circuits that routinely span miles, including HPWREN's current distance-record holder, a 72-mile-hop installed last month from San Diego to San Clemente Island. Although the raw data rate for the 802.11b gear Werner-Braun uses -- Orinoco routers and bridges from Proxim Corp. -- for the San Clemente Island shot is 11M bit/sec., the extreme distance cuts the throughput on that link to 1M bit/sec. But since there are no other communications alternatives, that's still a good data rate for an installation whose fixed cost ran about $3,000, according to estimates by Robert Ma, a product manager at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Proxim. More on this here

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