Bob Crandell wrote: > > How come we have to be so far behind? > http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/02/24/cover.terabeam/index.html We're a small city more concerned with banning Christmas trees than building a first rate Internet communications infrastructure? In any case, you might have fun reading http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/plaintree_fiberless.html. Ok, fog? Brief outages on East West oriented links during sunrise and sunset? The Seattle Wireless site's hardware page (http://seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/WirelessHardwareLinks) has a lot of links for RF wireless. It also has a link to a site that shows you how to use a cheap laser pointer to build an experimental optical link (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/7156/laser.htm). It's only 9600 baud, but, hey, it's a start. It might be interesting to get a project going coupling a better hardware design (more sophisticated modulation) with a more sophisticated software driver. Have fun. Dennis and, pal, Blinky ~:>(X){, His Mark!
