[olug] washingtonpost.com: 'Free' Wireless Networks?

[Jay Woods]

We could site several towers and use directional antennas to link up the
towers in a net. ---Jay

Eric Penne wrote:

> I notice the sentence where a skeptic says "it wasn't developed for
> wide open spaces"  when in fact Lucent has a contract with a local
> company in Lincoln to build antennas for just that.  When I worked
> there they were looking at an 8dBi Omnidirectional (every way but up
> and down) antenna and when coupled with another antenna that is
> identical (I don't think there was an amplifier) they had good
> reliability up to 6 miles away Line of sight.


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