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Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:
i use the orinoco gold cards, and they are pretty good, range wise - reach half way down my road (Salisbury Rd in plymouth - it's looooong) on a good day.
Agreed - Prism 2 is cheap and sucks. Orinoco cards work well with Linux as well.
however, in my flat in london, it only just reaches to the front door - some kind of intererance i guess but never worked out what. The wall's aren't *that* thick.
But what are the walls made of? Microwaves are damn tricky things.
an interesting dicovery i found when i had a party at my house and we were playing with it - if every turned their mobile phones off, the range was better. Though i don't see how 15 odd mobile phones could affect it, it cerrtianly did.
Mobile phones are very powerful microwave transmitters, so some interference is to be expected. I'm assured leaky Microwave ovens are worse, but mine doesn't interfere so maybe it doesn't leak much. Strange in the ionizing radiation debate people panic about siting mobile telephone masks near schools, then put their mobile to their ear, whilst cooking dinner in a microwave, and watching TV. A fault in the TV or microwave is likely to be far more dangerous.... X rays machines, airliners, nuclear power, and coal mining should all obviously be banned, as should package holidays anywhere in the tropics.
almost 2 years ago we did some experimental range testing with a number of Estate agents in outer london, the idea was to build up a grid off them to offer hi-speed wavelan access across london to the estate agents. We were using directional antennas and got from richmond where our main offices were to sheen, about 4 km - the speed was only 2mbit. in the end we gave up playing, as we had better thigns to do, and the legal situation was a bit sticky ;)
The legal situation is much simpler now. Doing a farm big Omnidirectional antennas are good for base stations - maybe a little one to go on the roof of the tractor ;). I think the regulations still limit the antenna to 15 dbi.... We have some evil, and possibly illegal plans, which involve taping USB cards to the focus of an old satellite dish, but we couldn't condone this or the use of untested Pringle can antennas. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.