[opendtv] Re: WiFi Supplanting Broadcasting? Get Real!
- From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:06:29 -0400
Excellent. Now when you crank up your transmitter and it squelches my
home wifi channel(s), don't be surprised if I take my PDA over to your
place and jam you. Or better still, I'll put up a big directional
stick, and jam you from my house.
http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=4091
Using Wifi for TV broadcasting with IP APs is just plain *stupid*.
Cheers
Kon
BTW how pray tell would my PDA link back to your 3.5Km boosted
omnidirectional with its piddly underpowered internal antenna? Whats
that? I'd have to hook a big stick and signal booster to it? Get outta
here!
> That's with the standard stub antennas that the consumer APs ship
with. Check
> out some of these optional units:
>
> http://www.d-link.com/products/antennas.asp
>
> I thought they used to list range in the specs, but they don't seem
to now, at
> least. I'm pretty sure I recall one of the models having a 3.5KM
range.
> Definitely not 30 miles, but not a few hundred feet, either.
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