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IP: Cringely's latest - 802.11, passive repeaters, a mountain, and a tree
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:13:36 -0500
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 treeDate: 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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