Urgent: need to ID some Network Manager icons - STAT!

[Derek Trotter]

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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