Can You Hear Me Now?
July 31, 2005 | In: General, Wireless Computing
Today marked the always popular annual Defcon WiFi Shoot Out, where teams compete for the longest distance of shooting a WiFi signal. Last year’s winners – Team Pad – took it again, and did so by blasting their previous record of 55.1 miles with new record today of 125 miles. They left the goddamn state for christ’s sake! Their shot from just outside Las Vegas took them to a location near St. George, Utah.
Very cool, though something tells me that antenna of theirs isn’t exactly what one would call portable.
Now, let me get this straight. My telephone company, which is like a hundred years old, spends millions of dollars on R&D and employs thousands of highly trained engineers, cannot get a DSL signal to my house which is less than 2 miles from the CO, and yet a bunch of geeks who appear not yet old enough to have graduated from college can shoot a Wifi signal 125 miles. It baffles the mind.
[ via The Gadget Blog ]
1 Response to Can You Hear Me Now?
frank
August 10th, 2005 at 3:06 am
I finally edited and posted the video from the DEFCON WiFI Shootout event along put some photos and topographical information up on the web.
Here they are:
http://pasadena.net/shootout05/
It was great fun watching the team set this record!