On Saturday 12 November 2005 23:51, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:02:09AM +0600, El Nino wrote: > > i have a 128kbps Internet connection to my home & now i want give > > access to my college friends to it. (i already have two running > > squid+firewall gentoo servers) > > > > I'm looking for wireless technology to do this. all friends are within > > 1km. > > A noble pursuit, but I doubt it could be done easily... AFAIK > IEEE802.11 is mostly reliable only for clients within 100 meters. > Unless you live on the top of a hill with wide open space all around > you for kilometers, I doubt you'd get coverage all the way out of 1 > kilometer. And if someone happened to be using wireless on neighboring > frequency bands to the one you are using, and if that someone happened > to be physically closer to your friend than you are, there's almost no > hope in establishing a connection... Actually, my brother works for a company in Virginia that is doing wireless ethernet over distances this great or greater. I doubt the technology they use will be cheap enough for this application, though. > > Of course, you could mean wireless other than 802.11, but I don't > think IP over carrier pigeons or bongo drums[1] would do you much good > either. > > If you have line-of-sight, you might be able to make do with a > pair of directional antennae set up in the right way, and you might > need a way of increasing the power output of the antennae. Any such > modifications, however, is surely ILLEGAL in most civilized > municipalities. > > The long-range wireless guys who have been doing stuff like this all > have ham licenses, and are allowed quite a bit more power from their > devices then us lowly consumers.... > > Best > > W > > > can anyone give me a solution to do this? > > > > all advices are warmly welcome... > > [1] http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20030929-2886.html > -- > This one's a bit....ummm...graphic? > "Lagrangian Mechanics with Differential Equations is like masturbating. You > do what works and what makes you feel good." > ~DeathMech, Some Student. P-town PHY 205 > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 21:59
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