Re: [TCLUG:22283] wireless networking in the Twin Cities

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

"Austad, Jay" wrote:
> 
> I was reading this article on Slashdot:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/04/140229&mode=nested
> 
> and I thought it might be interesting to try something like this here in the
> twin cities area.  I've seen people make directional antennas and squeeze
> about 7 miles out of a WaveLan card.  One of the sites that the slashdot
> article refers to has plans for building different antennas.
> 
> I'm thinking something along the lines of a large private network with
> wireless nodes running MRTd (http://www.mrtd.net), and points of access to
> the internet at large.  Anyone else think this might be interesting?
> 
> FYI, I live 23 stories up in downtown saint paul, so I have a pretty good
> view to alot of outlying areas.

Could you get a signal to a DEC Multia in an 86 Buick Century? ;)

Failing that there's www.novatelwireless.com ...