On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:15:06AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:51:12 -0500
> Willie Wong wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:02:09AM +0600, El Nino wrote:
> > > i have a 128kbps Internet connection to my home & now i want give
> > > access to my college friends to it. (i already have two running
> > > squid+firewall gentoo servers)
> > >
> > > I'm looking for wireless technology to do this. all friends are within
> > > 1km.
> What bollocks. 802.11 is capable of 5 km at least with a decent card and
> directional aerials. Directional aerials can be built from quite cheap
> materials like woks and other asian food implements, or you can buy
> commercial directional aerials.
>
In my defense:
1) I did mention directional signals LATER ON in my post.
2) Notice that he said "FRIENDS". Plural.
So of course I start by commenting on the usual capability of an
802.11 signal for an omnidirectional antenna.
Nick: I notice you use that word (bollocks) a lot. I don't know if to
you it is as offensive as it is to me, but I'd appreciate if you don't
call it on me before reading my entire post or considering why I wrote
what I did. If you had said, for example, "What Bollocks, 802.11 is
unregulated band" in response to the misinformation I gave in that post
(which someone else corrected), then I'd say "ha, my bad" and move
on...
W
--
BOOK ...Man had always assumed that he was more
intelligent than
dolphins because he had achieved so much... the
wheel, New York,
wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever
done was muck
about in the water having a good time. But
conversely the
dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent
than man for
precisely the same reasons.
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