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HighWLAN: A Driving Wireless Network
802.11 for the highway.
Now here’s something for all of you networking geeks out there with a little too much time on your hands, or do we call it creativity these days? Either way, this article is downright interesting and gets kudos for creativity.
Here’s the setup – 2 cars had to drive from New York to St. Louis and wanted a way to communicate with each other without the charges associated with using cell phones. This is where 802.11 wireless networking comes in. Take a look:
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Since we were taking two cars, we needed a decent form of communication. The first choice was using cell phones, but we quickly realized that it really isn't functional for long road trips. Making a phone call from Pittsburgh to New York while both parties are coasting down I-70 in Illinois wasn't my idea of a smart move. I'd be more inclined to run into them to get their attention; it would have cost the same.
It was obvious that we needed to liberate ourselves from the phone companies. Any normal person would have stopped at this point and bought two-way radios. For better or worse, I'm not a normal person. I'm a geek, a geek beyond reason. A wireless network was in order. After all, most wireless projects are created as a means to bypass the telco and their 800 pound gorilla ways
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Read the article in full over on the O’Reilly Network.
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