From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Nov 12 11: 0:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A8537B416 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:00:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06673; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:59:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fACIxuH63253; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:59:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15344.7211.847377.385043@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:59:55 -0700 To: Brian Reichert Cc: Warner Losh , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an and wi ad-hoc talking In-Reply-To: <20011110182900.Y327@numachi.com> References: <200111102300.fAAN0g767233@harmony.village.org> <20011110182900.Y327@numachi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message