From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EbIK9-0002aS-RP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:55:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jADDsKOX017609; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:54:20 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jADDoSgm026477 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:50:29 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0D218036 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:50:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25671-04 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:50:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF6E18035 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:50:23 -0600 (CST) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:50:28 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20051113055112.GB10451@princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051113055112.GB10451@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511130750.28601.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: e4102874-9d9d-46bd-ab38-483a1066ea39 X-Archives-Hash: af7c5495d69ffd16ad89c477a9d41f80 On Saturday 12 November 2005 23:51, 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. > > A noble pursuit, but I doubt it could be done easily... AFAIK > IEEE802.11 is mostly reliable only for clients within 100 meters. > Unless you live on the top of a hill with wide open space all around > you for kilometers, I doubt you'd get coverage all the way out of 1 > kilometer. And if someone happened to be using wireless on neighboring > frequency bands to the one you are using, and if that someone happened > to be physically closer to your friend than you are, there's almost no > hope in establishing a connection... Actually, my brother works for a company in Virginia that is doing wireless ethernet over distances this great or greater. I doubt the technology they use will be cheap enough for this application, though. > > Of course, you could mean wireless other than 802.11, but I don't > think IP over carrier pigeons or bongo drums[1] would do you much good > either. > > If you have line-of-sight, you might be able to make do with a > pair of directional antennae set up in the right way, and you might > need a way of increasing the power output of the antennae. Any such > modifications, however, is surely ILLEGAL in most civilized > municipalities. > > The long-range wireless guys who have been doing stuff like this all > have ham licenses, and are allowed quite a bit more power from their > devices then us lowly consumers.... > > Best > > W > > > can anyone give me a solution to do this? > > > > all advices are warmly welcome... > > [1] http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20030929-2886.html > -- > This one's a bit....ummm...graphic? > "Lagrangian Mechanics with Differential Equations is like masturbating. You > do what works and what makes you feel good." > ~DeathMech, Some Student. P-town PHY 205 > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 21:59 -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list