IP: Cringely's latest - 802.11, passive repeaters, a mountain, and a tree

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
>
> [Note:  This comment comes from reader Steve Stroh.  DLH]
>
> At 22:06 -0800 2/8/02, Steve Stroh wrote:
> > From: "Steve Stroh" <steve () strohpub com>
> > To: "Dewayne Hendricks" <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> > Subject: Cringely's latest - 802.11, passive repeaters, a mountain, and a 
> > tree
> > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 22:06:00 -0800
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> >
> > Cringely's Latest.
> >
> > There's no end in sight to the hacking of 802.11 gear. With the FCC's total
> > silence on the subject of hacked 802.11 gear, they're tacitly condoning the
> > practice, and at this point it simply wouldn't matter if they did formally
> > object. It's my guess that with this lack of enforcement (more accurately,
> > lack of even feeble protest) and demonstrated demand, we'll soon start
> > seeing inexpensive bootleg higher power 802.11 gear coming in from overseas.
> >
> > Cringely's merely one of the more public examples of the trend of do it
> > yourself / hack as necessary wireless Internet access.
> >
> > 802.11 gear is being used to fill the void left in the absence of reasonable
> > performance reasonably priced broadband Internet access. I expect this trend
> > to accelerate rapidly. Boingo Wireless and hereUare Communications are but
> > the most public of the players in this trend, which will eventually
> > encompass hundreds, then thousands of such providers of Public Wireless
> > Access Points (PWAPs) as Cringely names.
> >
> > Aside from the main part of the story - Cringely and the tree, I was
> > delighted to learn of Gatespeed's competitive Wireless service in the coffee
> > shops of San Jose! That's EXACTLY what's needed - competition!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve

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