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New WiFi Record: 237 Miles
blog.wired.com — A Venezuelan techie apparently has set a new record for longest WiFi link. Networking guru Ermanno Pietrosemoli established a wireless connection between a PC in El Aguila, Venezuela, and one in Platillon Mountain, a distance of about 237 miles, mostly using off-the-shelf equipment and a few hacked parts.
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- linkin1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22I was wondering what was that nasty headache i had earlier on...
- j0ker666, on 10/11/2007, -1/+54and yet i still can't get wi-fi from my uni room to the computers in the next door building.....
- Azslande, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Next door? Dude I cant get mine to reach outside of my house... Must be my inferior Belkin product...
- fxspec06, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12This is gonna be great for this dude's iPhone ...
- audiowizard, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3omg, so does 237 miles of Venezuela have testicular cancer now???
- manticore01, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Azslande.. dugg down for using Belkin wireless products : - )
- 5urr3al5am, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0truly amazing... sure beats using a 28k baud modem back in 1990
- xGORDOx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So, at what point do we start getting NAS?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/plotsummary - skoobisnaxs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1mine went further. I was on vacation in Florida 1800 miles away and was still able to pick up my "linksys" router when i powered up the laptop in the rental condo.
:)
- flippinjeremy, on 10/11/2007, -17/+2Why not just use satellite?
- geekchic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29cost?
- audiowizard, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Good point. 237 miles sure does increase the probability of hacker intrusion.
Oh hey look, there's an Ermanno WEP network here in Panama, sweet! - Aninhumer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Errm, if he's using directional antennas, you'd have to be exactly between the two points to get a signal.
What's more you'd have to direct your own antenna in precisely the right direction to get your signal back to it. - mchammer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The way i see it a satellites would cost $10 million compared to $75,000~$76,000 you used Ethernet cords (assuming $60 per 1000ft).
- geekchic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33"off-the-shelf equipment and a few hacked parts" = used Pringles tubes.
- Nudar, on 10/11/2007, -24/+2The internet is made of pipes not tubes.
- ricerfuel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13I believe its "a series of tubes" no less...
- Jereso, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2Man, if they had this on the movie "Pulse", EVERYONE would be screwed.
- crankycookie, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25if you saw that move, you already got screwed.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Was there more to that article or was the parts he used some kind of industrial secret?
- musbou, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Are we still using the imperial system...
- astanhope, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33Does MySpace suck as bad on a mountain top?
- cybercat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Yes.
- PhonicUK, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1The thin air stops at least means you pass out before you feel the need to kill everything around you... kill everything... EVERY - uh ahem yea like i was saying, thin air etc...
- xatx2, on 10/11/2007, -17/+3as if anything out of venezuela can be believed. buried inaccurate.
- trer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2where are you from?
- xatx2, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2duh theres a profile button
- trer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Let me clarify. I saw your profile, but is your info accurate?
- schwit, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2With the way things are going in Venezuela this will be the only way freedom of the press, speech and association will be realized.
- Nighthawke, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Define hacked. If you can set a bag of microwave popcorn in front of the antenna and it pops in less than a minute, then the gear's hacked.
- zeiben, on 10/11/2007, -6/+17can of pringles: 8,000 bolivars
Bus trip to Radio Shack in Maracaibo: 94,000 bolivars
viewing porn 237 miles away from the boss: priceless - xeno439, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yep, and I've got a time share in Idaho with a Pacific Ocean view.
- Mark0Pon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Amazing!
But it's possible to get interesting result (I mean, on the mile range) even with cheap cookware:
http://exe64.com/mirror/wokfi/ (Fast european mirror of the original http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/) - Firehed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Unfair. I can't get on the wireless that's less than 237 feet away, much less something the next state over.
- bigdaddyk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0maybe now some WoW players will leave the house
- willynilly, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Who gives a *****?
"Wi-Fi" is meaningless, just like these "records."- Latka, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Go back to your cave, bam bam
- battletrax, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Now i can play ds with all my friends at school. If i had a hacked ds, of course.
- NoDetection, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Now if only they could get this kind of range with cell phone towers, maybe I'd actually get service.
- Nin10dude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"The previous record was 193 miles, between a balloon and an Earth-bound PC"
EarthBound‽ Surely it must be a sign of Mother 3's US release!!
...Sorry, bury away. D: Although, you gotta give me some credit for using an interrobang.
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