roll your own wireless (was [geeks] Roll your own DSL)

Kris Kirby geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue Aug 14 16:33:35 CDT 2001


On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Reagen B . Ward wrote:
> You mean like the one where the guys built 2way line-of-sight links
> using old Primestar dishes and soup cans?  Think that was on Slashdot.
> I'm sure the commenters found a way to say that it was wrong because it
> wasn't GPL, because RMS didn't use it, because it somehow involved KDE,
> and that it was too slow for a Beowulf interconnect.

That was 2.4GHz wireless using Proxim cards.

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