WiFi news

Good and bad wifi news. Good: I’ve suc­ces­fully tested a wifi-antenna, extend­ing my wire­less net­work to the park across from where I live. Bad: It’s freez­ing out­side. (Pic­tures from a quick trip to the bus shed across the street)

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And once the out­side tem­per­a­ture rises, the sun will keep me from see­ing what’s on the screen. Ah, well. I’ve pur­chased a Microwave Con­cepts Patch Antenna and hooked it up to a Linksys WRT54G act­ing as an extra access point. The antenna comes with about 3m of wire, the con­nec­tor and a wall mount. Fur­ther exper­i­ments will show if I have to get on the out­side of my build­ing to mount it or if it can stay in the win­dow. I also need to play a with dif­fer­ent firmware. Ide­ally the AP would han­dle authen­ti­ca­tion, but for now I’ll set­tle with a fancy splash page. I’ll prob­a­bly look into NoCatSplash/NoCatAuth.

That is if I sur­vive the radi­a­tion com­ing from the two Linksys access points and the two Air­port Expresses. I have a nag­ging feel­ing that in 20 years time, we’ll look at wifi, mobile phones and all the other good­ies we play with the same way we look at smok­ing now: “You mean light­ing up tobacco and tak­ing it all into my lungs are bad? Why didn’t you tell me?”. Well, at least now my local com­mu­nity can share my pain…

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