On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:51:12 -0500 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...
What bollocks. 802.11 is capable of 5 km at least with a decent card and directional aerials. Directional aerials can be built from quite cheap materials like woks and other asian food implements, or you can buy commercial directional aerials. examples: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/g.mckenzie/Radio%20Dish/Radio%20aerial.htm http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/ -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
