TRhis was on CatGeek for those slowly acculmulating parts for their
wireless Lan.
>iBook users, take note:
>
>If a geek comes up to you and offers to buy "that lame Airport thing you
>don't use", tell them to buy their own iBook.
>
>In recent articles in both the Wall Street Journal [1] and Salon
>Magazine [2], the sudden explosion of wireless ethernet is discussed in
>some detail. In several cities across the world, homebrew hackers are
>putting together city-wide internet WANs based on the newly-approved
>802.11b ethernet standard which operates in the 2.4 GHz range. What is
>surprising is that a lot of this homebrew information is coming from
>Australia [3].
>
>These budding airwave jockeys are, for the most part, Windows and linux
>tinkerers, even though Apple's iBook was one of the first computers with
>basic wireless ethernet as a standard feature. The Airport system Apple
>use is essentially technology licenced from research giant Lucent, who
>offer it to all comers as well as making their own range of
>Intel-flavoured and stand-alone products.
>
>For city-wide WANs, however, more power is needed to cover the greater
>ranges required, and can still cost US$800 or so per user. What used to
>be a large part of the cost of setting up a wireless connection was a
>once-rare item called an "antenna connector" - now all they have to do
>is gut an Airport-ready iBook or desktop G4 unit.
>
>If someone offers to buy _your_ Mac's antenna connector, politely refuse
>and say that if there's a wireless WAN going up in your area, you want
>to be a part of it.
>
>
>[1] http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/12/01/wireless_ethernet
> /index.html (re-flow so it's one line)
>[2] http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB975000515459708837.html
>[3] http://www.air.net.au/
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