The "normal" 95/45 feet is based on standard WiFi access point antennas - about 3 dBi omni gain. One can obtain 9 dBi omni antennas thereby obtaining a 6 dB boost. I have directional 18 dBi antennas (for an increase of 15 dB). This increases range considerably, perhaps up to several thousand feet under favorable conditions.
Currently, I'm doing my consulting work (engineering) at my favorite "It's A Grind" coffee house. WiFi is uncontrolled and free, as is electrical power, and the coffee is great. They have six flavors/types on tap to choose from as well as the various foo-foo "coffee drinks". My favorite is vanilla nut - but I digress... My safety is ZoneAlarm firewall. Most independent coffee houses are like this with the WiFi. The eye-fi would work here. Some folks tell me that coffee is addictive, but I've been drinking five to ten mugs of it a day for 45 years and haven't noticed any such thing. Regards, Bob... --------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings." -- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Sessoms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, I went and looked it up to see what it can do ... > > Here's what I noticed: > > Those two "teenage" girls didn't look *that* much closer to their teens > than I am. But if it's aimed at the teenage-girl-with-a-digital-camera > market, it needs automatic red-eye removal somewhere in the software, > turned on by default. I get real teenage girls in my lab every day > printing from their digital cameras, and none of them seem to have half > a clue about red-eye removal or reduction. > > Range is 90 feet outdoors, 45 feet indoors. I wouldn't give that runner > the pink slip yet. > > Won't work with most wifi hotspots 'cause you can't log in, so you're > home wireless network has to be within that 90/45 feet range. Maybe > their Eye-Fi Manager software will work with your wifi notebook away > from your home network. That wasn't quite clear on the website. > > Currently only supported in the USA. > > ______________________________ > > Back to the teenage girls thingy - as far as I can tell, no teenage girl > with a digital camera has EVER bought an additional memory card for it. > They're all using the original 256 or 512 card they bought along with > the camera, so I'm not sure there's really a market there. > > They've all got it set to get the maximum number of photos they can cram > into the card with the obvious results regarding image quality. None of > them has ever so much as looked at the manual; the camera is still in > whatever mode the sales-droid put it into before they walked out of the > store. > > They all have the same pictures on the card ... > > 5 pictures of their girlfriends cheek to cheek before they go out to > some bar; > > 5 pictures of their girlfriends cheek to cheek at the table in some bar > with fancy drinks in front of them - either fruit or paper umbrellas; > > 95 pictures of various drunken louts they met in that bar, mugging for > the camera making whatever rude gesture is currently in vogue; > > 2 pictures of some hungover dude slouched in front of the TV set > > All of the images, except for the hungover dude slouched in front of the > TV, are washed out, over-flashed, front-lit, spawn-of-satan-red-eye > against impenetrable darkness; > > The hungover dudes in front of the TV will be under-exposed by at least > 2 stops. > > ... rinse & repeat as many times as it takes to fill the memory card. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
