One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles

maxstreampr wrote in to plug their radio modem. It's the size of a credit card, one watt, and can transmit 40 miles line of sight or 3000 feet indoors. Something about using the AT command set to fire off a command 40 miles through the air amuses me.

Denial of service attack!

[Anonymous Coward]

+++ATH0 on a cloudy day. With a repeater.

first post

[Anonymous Coward]

First post ever from a radio modem

Why do we even need the Internet?

[Anita Coney]

If everyone bought one of these and ran them in peer-to-peer mode, we could all dump our ISPs!

Re: One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles

[Scoria]

Additionally, rumor has it that this device will burn a hole in your pocket. (Thank you, I'm here all week.)

Okay, I'll do it

[koreth]

Someone's going to, so it may as well be me...

"Site" - a location.

"Sight" - something visual.

"Line of sight" - a line along which you can see (i.e., an unobstructed line.)

"Line of site" - evidence that what you've written matters so little to you that it's not worth the effort to proofread. You don't care; why should we?

Calling Long Distance

[grunt107]

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is used with a 256-bit key, the highest encryption standard available.

The real question is, did they use Lexar programming techniques?

Wireless...

[Anonymous Coward]

My Grandma loves all this talk of 'Wireless' again..

Did anyone else read this...

[Ignignot]

Using the AT command to set a fire 40 miles off? Or has it just been too long a day at work? My office has been regularly swept for mines.

Credit Card Sized?

[icekillis]

Do you mean PCMCIA-sized?

Re:Okay, I'll do it

[joranbelar]

Don't look now, the Slashdot editors actually EDITED something! And they got it right!

Friends of SCO

[MikeMacK]

MaxStream, Inc., 355 South 520 West Suite 180, Lindon, Utah 84042

Lindon, Utah is sure a happening place.

Re:Why do we even need the Internet?

[Anita Coney]

Damn, I knew I should have actually read the article!!!

Quick follow-up

[joranbelar]

Apparently, the editors are hedging their bets on this one: I keep hitting reload, and the submission text alternates between "line of sight" to "line of site".

Re:Did anyone else read this...

[Anonymous Coward]

My office has been regularly swept for mines.

Translated: all we do at the office is play minesweeper

Re:What kind of antenna??

[chill]

What kind of antenna did they use? "High gain" isn't all that descriptive.

A thin, copper one, 40-miles long. :-)

Re:What kind of antenna??

[ARRRLovin]

Nice.......UUUULF. :-)

9600 baud 'em

[phyruxus]

Mordac: I am Mordac, preventer of information services! I deny your request for specifications! In retribution for disturbing me, I sentence you to one month without email!

Dilbert: okay.

Mordac: What?! No engineer gives up email so easily. Assume the position!

Dilbert (at home, to Dogbert): So, he found the modem strapped to my ankle, but he missed my wireless pen modem.

Wow!

[Guano_Jim]

I'm using one of these right now and it's gr345l;@!@*!bbg

NO CARRIER

/.ed

[TarlCabbot]

Looks like their web server went under a bridge.

Re:Ad Dot

[funkdid]

I was just thinking that I like slashdot and it's ok if they put a well placed ad here or there if it keeps up the high quality of this site. Maybe they'll be able to make it even better. Maybe they'll start to patent some of the features of slashdot, and trademark some of the slashdot esque things about it. Maybe they'll pick up some closed source companies that make a nice product and then open source them. Maybe they'll become a portal for all types of news, not just "news for nerds". Then perhaps they'll start to consider spinning Slashdot off of OSDN, take it public. Then they'll sell stock in some odd dutch auction, and offer 1 Terabyte of storage in the new "slashmail" beta free e-mail service.....

Seriously all companies (and governments) turn out the same eventually. Just like with google, we'll be sitting around one day commenting "Remember when slashdot was that indie little "news for nerds" site?

How can you tell if someone is a complete geek?

[Omega1045]

Q: How can you tell if someone is a complete geek?

A: If they say, "Something about using the AT command set to fire off a command 40 miles through the air amuses me."

problems

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see, hmmm

1 Watt ... 40 miles
2 Watts ... 80 miles
3 Watts ... 120 miles
4 Watts ... damn you mountains!

Well, at least...

[ph43thon]

...they didn't use "line of cite"

Re:problems

[ajlitt]

Mr. Anonymous Coward... Let me take this opportunity to introduce you to Mr. Inverse-square Law.

Re:Okay, I'll do it

[Requiem]

You beat me to it. Keep the flame of the English language burning, my friend.

Re:Quick follow-up

[Anonymous Coward]

By not RTFA, I'm trying to maintain both spellings in a quantum state.

Re:How much does this cost?

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

Are there 999 other slashdottters who'd like to make an order with me?

Re:Quick follow-up

[mikael]

By replying to this anonymous post, I am aiming along the "line of cite".

Re:Denial of service attack!

[Short Circuit]

Heck yeah...I still participate on a Worldgroup BBS.

And my favorite joke on computer campers?

"ga has just given you 2000 credits. Type =x to accept."

("ga" is the Teleconference equivalent of IRC's "/me")

Re:Why do we even need the Internet?

[Short Circuit]

You find me a 9600 baud acoustic coupler and I'll give you a gmail invite. :)