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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:59:55 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: an and wi ad-hoc talking
Message-ID:  <15344.7211.847377.385043@caddis.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011110182900.Y327@numachi.com>
References:  <200111102300.fAAN0g767233@harmony.village.org> <20011110182900.Y327@numachi.com>

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> > OK.  I have two Orinoco cards talking to each other in ah-hoc mode:
> > 
> > These talk to each other great.  They happen to be located 5.5 miles
> > apart, and I'm able to get about 5Mbps out of the cards (averaged over
> > a long file transfer).
> 
> You got five-and-a-half _miles_ point-to-point with Orinoco cards?!
> 
> Have you plugged some kind of external antenna on them?  I though
> they were only good for a few hundred yards...

My ISP goes about 30 miles with theirs, with external antennas.
However, the funky part is that the one end has an omni-directional,
while the other end has the more expected directional antenna.




Nate

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