15-Mile Wi-Fi Shot At 4 Mbps Up and Down

DarnComputers writes "5G Wireless (FGWC) announced that it has documented a long distance Wi-Fi shot of 15 miles at a throughput of 4Mbps upload and download speed. The shot was completed this last weekend, in a competitive Wi-Fi shootout at the Defcon convention in Las Vegas, Nev. There were many participants with both commercial-grade and homemade entries in a variety of categories at Defcon's first annual Wi-Fi shootout.http://home.earthlink.net/~wifi-shootout/"

Make that 24Km Wi-FI Shot At 4 Mbps Up and Down.

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought English measurements are banned on Slashdot now? [slashdot.org]

That's cool

[ObviousGuy]

In my house, I'm able to shoot 54Mbps across 15ft of WiFi.

It's not too shabby, and I don't get delayed on the 11Mbps Internet connection like I did before by my 10Mbps LAN card.

CmdrTaco's Internet

[SultanCemil]

I guess this means Taco can get high speed internet access out in the boonies after all. (see earlier story)

"Last week at Defcon"

[ehintz]

The link is so blazing fast that it actually slows down time, like Superman in the movie. That's why we all feel like Defcon was months ago. It was really last week.

In related news, the shuttle was traveling at 18x the speed of light when it broke up... Really, cnn said so here [cox.net], and everyone knows cnn is the epitome of clueful.

Re:Last weekend?

[WIAKywbfatw]

Wow, it happened last year and we're only just reading about it on Slashdot?

Is it me, or does someone have a real big problem with latency here? Perhaps Timothy needs to upgrade from narrowband just as badly as Taco does!

Re:Make that 24Km Wi-FI Shot At 4 Mbps Up and Down

[Polkyb]

The metric system was the invention of the French. I'd quite happily revert back to the good old imperial system, if I had the choice

Fortunately, I was at school when Metric was introduced, so, I can convert between the two without using many brain cycles

Ahh the gold ole days...

[devnullish]

I remember when one had to was 32 miles to get to the library to look up information - uphill! Both ways! Now I have just to turn on my laptop with a frickin' huge antenna and look up information.

Hrmmm, I wonder why we have such obesity issues. Got to admit, this would be fun with a Humvee downtown NY.

In other news...

[schwaang]

The entire frozen dinner section at a small convenience store near Las Vegas, NV mysteriously cooked itself at approximately 7:03PM.

A special envoy of the Pope has been called in to investigate the possible miracle. Said one bystander, "I don't think it was, like, God or something because this chicken burrito is way overdone."