[olug] Omaha area 802.11 wireless community network?

Eric Penne epenne at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 31 22:26:31 UTC 2001


Successful tests here in lincoln using high gain dish available from
Telex http://www.telexwireless.com have gone 9 miles line of sight. 
The slightly less gain Yagi antennas have gone 4 or 5 miles I think.

Eric

--- tetherow at nol.org wrote:
> That's 500 meters without a directional antenna.  For more
> information
> check out http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010712.html and
> it's predecessor
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010628.html
> 
> On 31 Aug, jw43405 at navix.net wrote:
> > I thought the range was only 500 Meters.  Am I missing something? 
> It is
> > definitely interesting.
> > 
> > John
>  
>
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