If you want to do some wireless experiments google antenna :-)

On Jun 12, 2012 10:47 PM, "Derek Trotter" <expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:

I read about a test once where a group in Las Vegas wanted to see how far they could make off the shelf wifi gear reach.   One team set up on one of the mountains around Las Vegas.  The other on a mountain in Utah over 100 miles away.  They used 12 foot satellite dishes as the reflectors.

Here's one
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2007/06/w_wifi_record_2/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9730708-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
about a guy in Venezuela getting a connection between two computers 237 miles apart.

Then of course there's always RFC 1149.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-257064.html

On 6/12/2012 21:48, Stephen wrote:

Those are indeed ad hoc hp machines and a number of people don't even know they are even broadcasting. I have noticed it most with hp. And it can be suprusing how far they will reach...

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