On Thursday December 14, 2000, Or Botton wrote:
> A friend of mine and I are thinking about trying to setup a LAN between
> our computers. He lives afew houses away from me (about 2, 3 minute
> walk), so obviously putting a cable isnt a solution. The internet
> bandwidth at our ISP's can be very low at rush hours, and direct
> modem to modem connection have become quite a futile idea, thanks to
> our phone company who have increased the prices sky-high. (they
> "fixed" it by giving discount to ISP dial-up numbers. G, thanks.)
>
> It was then when I thought of the idea of using Radio. I heard of
> afew people who did it before.. And ofcourse, I have no idea where
> even to start.
>
> So, if you have any ideas, comments, suggestions, I will be glad to
> hear it!
The standard for wireless LANs is IEEE 802.11 . A good
jumping off point is:
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~elec456/wlan/index.htm
R.
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