Wi-Fi World Record

supersam writes "Interline Wireless Technology, a Polish company has reportedly set a world record in stretching the range of a Wi-Fi network for an amazing 110 Kms at 2.4 GHz. They achieved this using an antenna developed by them and an INTEL Pro/Wireless 2011 Access Point."

Range is fine but...

[Cyno01]

Unfortunately the neighbors decided to microwave a burrito and their throughput went all to hell.

Polish

[Crash42]

Well, my polish is not that good (except my RPN/RPL) so i'll take your word for it....

Old joke to be duped

[heir2chaos]

How many pollocks did it take to acheive this?

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110 Km?

[JRHelgeson]

WOW! 110 Kilometers! What is that, like 500 feet?

Hrmm

[acehole]

I guess using two pringles cans instead of two really did the trick.

Damn measurement standards..!!

[Anonymous Coward]

110kms??? What's that in freight trains?

or how many of the sears tower layed on it's side?

Huzaa!

[rf600r]

Maybe there's hope for me getting a signal down the hall?

Naaaahhhhh.......

Re:110 Km?

[grokster]

How big are your feet?

Faraway, But So Close?

[ausoleil]

I for one find it ironic that someone can detect and possibly decode my WiFi signal from roughly 70 miles (per the new world WiFi record) but I can't get a useable signal on my laptop three rooms away from the WAP.

Wow 110 kilometers

[Zakabog]

I wonder how many pringles cans that took.

Re:110 Km?

[Anonymous Coward]

i remember you, you're that engineer who programmed that polar Mars probe aren't you?

Satellite dishes

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Good thing they did that in Poland. If they had tried this in the US, they'd have been sued by DirecTV for hacking a satellite TV system and the RIAA for trying to set up a P2P link. Of course, none of this would matter since they'd all be in a 3x2 federal pen cell awaiting for months to be charged with setting up a data link that could be used for terrorism ...

Re:Err... it is a cheat

[Zocalo]

What's next? Sticking it in the middle of Aresibo and claiming half a light year range?

Pshaw! Who needs Arecibo? *My* crappy off-the-shelf 802.11b card can get *infinite* range un-aided! True, picking the signal out from the noise at more than 50ft is proving problematic at present, but once I've ironed out that minor problem I'm well on my way to PROFIT!!!

Or was I the only person paying attention in physics when it was explained how *any* electromagnetic transmission has infinite range, since decaying amplitude in accordance with the inverse square rule never reaches zero? Assuming a perfect vacuum, naturally.

Re:Wow 110 kilometers

[Inflatable Hippo]

> I wonder how many pringles cans that took.

275,000

They connected them end to end in an unbroken chain between the base station and client.

I claim a *double* WiFi distance record

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

3603 miles, between me in Paris and my friend Bob in New-York:

My_laptop <-> my_AP <-> The_innurnet <-> Bob's_AP <-> Bob's_laptop

Re:that's 110 kilometers...

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

You could access that across the English channel!

Yes, and just imagine the improvement when they finally dig the 802.11b tunnel!

Re:Wi-Fi jargon

[Lumpy]

Exactly what does this mean? It doesn't make much sense to a non-techie like me :)

The shiney dishey pointey things let the silly men send naughty pictures a long way through the air magically.

Re:Range is fine but...

[swordboy]

Unfortunately the neighbors decided to microwave a burrito and their throughput went all to hell.

Who needs a microwave when you can just stick the burrito in the access point's line-of-sight?

I suppose that could possibly affect throughput as well...

Re:ground attenuation...

[LucidityZero]

The tough part is the curvature of the earth.

Silly! That's why the expirement was done in Poland! The Earth is still flat out there!

Re:Wow 110 kilometers

[Inflatable Hippo]

> I know you're joking, but assuming that a
> pringles can is 9.25in tall (the best figure I
> could find), it would take 450,082 end to end
> to reach that distance. :)

Pringles cans are bigger when measured in cm.

Oops

[Trak]

You also meant "Oops"

It's going to be one of those days, eh?

Re:Range is fine but...

[jedrek]

Man... I wish we could get microwave burritos here in Poland.

Mmm... waveolicious.

Re:that's 110 kilometers...

[Anonymous Coward]

We're not "Kentarians" we're either "Men of Kent" on the french side of the Medway River, or "Kentish Men" on the London side

What happened to all the women?

Re:that's 110 kilometers...

[zindorsky]

At some point, you pass the horizon, where you can't go any further due to the curvature of the earth

The earth is flat [alaska.net], sinner.