Wi-Fi VoIP At 80 mph

fredo123 writes "Almost faster than a speeding bullet. As reported in Muniwireless minutes ago, RoamAD and WI-VOD have tested mobile VOIP over Wi-Fi at over 130 Km/h over an 8km stretch of Interstate highway somewhere near the Mexican border. Gee... I wonder what this is for?" No need to guess: according to the MuniWireless link, "the network is for public safety personnel (police, fire, ambulance and border patrol) first, with various community agencies, schools, business and local residents being added as the deployment expands beyond its targeted coverage areas."

...i had to say it

[r84x]

All hail the Information Superhighway!

Re:How Fast?

[k4_pacific]

Fast enough that you'd be out of range of the access point before you could find out if it worked or not.

Officer: Are you aware that you were going 0.90c in a 55 mph zone?

Driver: Ummm... I was?

Officer: Didn't you notice the blue shift son?

Good News for Motorists

[ackthpt]

When the guy in the Luxus blasted past me at about 100 mph while blathering away on his cell call "hey fred, you should see how this thing handles on the shoulder of the road at 100 mph while one handed driving, marvelous..." he knew he could count on that keeping up with him. granted he was going substantially slower than the c (the speed of light).

Now he's assured that he could steer with his knees and type away on his laptop while driving similarly "hey fred, how to you spell 'psychopath'?"

Netbacks?

[Tackhead]

> have tested mobile VOIP over Wi-Fi at over 130 Km/h over an 8km stretch of Interstate highway somewhere near the Mexican border. Gee... I wonder what this is for?

"DEY TUK R CONTENT!"
- RIAA chair Cary Sherman

"Goddamn netbacks!"
- MPAA chair Jack Valenti

"I! LOVE! THIS! COMPANY!"
- Steve Ballmer, doing things you thought you could never get Americans to do for any price.

Re:Public safety?

[k4_pacific]

Well, I'm sure police radios can be jammed too. As for traditional telephones, efforts to install land lines in the cruisers have proven unsuccessful.

Re:In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Mind you it would be cool to have a VoIP broadcaster in the car so you can tell that jerk doing 20 under the speed limit to get the hell out of the overtaking lane

You can do this already with the mobile phone numbers on the side of tradesmen's vans.

"Is that Jake the plumber?"
"Yeah."
"Then stop driving like a twat."

They love it.

Re:How Fast?

[temojen]

Driver: All I saw was the green lights of your roadblock.

wargames

[lokalhost]

So how long before the wifi network gets a counterstrike server?

YASUOM

[DoubleD]

Yet another stupid unit of measure "almost faster than a speeding bullet."

Also what the heck kind of slow lazy bullets are almost slower than 80mph.

because I was curious I checked out the speed of a bullet. referencing this link:
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/MariaPereyra.s html [hypertextbook.com]
puts the lower end of bullet speed at about 750mph and the upper end at 6700mph.

At least "almost as fast as a carrier pigeon in a tornado" would have been more accurate.

Re:How Fast?

[X0563511]

The lights were off! You sure that wasn't the themal coming off of our radiators?

Needs DeLorean compatibility

[istewart]

Make it work at 88 miles per hour and then they'll be on to something.

Who are you and what have you done with Slashdot?

[StikyPad]

No need to guess: according to the MuniWireless link, "the network is for public safety personnel (police, fire, ambulance and border patrol) first, with various community agencies, schools, business and local residents being added as the deployment expands beyond its targeted coverage areas."

Okay, what sort of alternate universe is this? This is the second story today where the submitter hasn't RTFA, but now this? Now the EDITOR actually read the story.

Is anyone else feeling just a little freaked out right about now?

Re:Public safety?

[pclminion]

Obviously the proper solution is for the emergency vehicles to drag a ten-mile strand of Cat5 behind them. Just imagine it -- an ambulance hurtling down the freeway with a blue network cable trailing behind, and a giant spool of Cat5 unreeling at 600 RPM... Tht tht tht tht tht tht tht

Re:How Fast?

[auburnate]

Anybody know how fast you would have to be going (theoretically or otherwise) before the Doppler Effect makes the signal unusable?

No need to worry. Simply drive in reverse and it cancels the Doppler Effct.

Re:How Fast?

[renehollan]

I once remarked to a former boss about a red sign that said, "If this appears blue, you have exceeded the speed limit."

He didn't get the joke.

I quit that job and got a different one as fast as practical.

Because public officers are super-human!

[Locke2005]

Remember folks, it's illegal for you to talk on a cell phone while driving, but it is perfectly ok for cops to type on a terminal while driving 80mph!

Shouldn't the same rules apply to everyone?

Re:Who are you and what have you done with Slashdo

[Peyna]

Not only that, but the editor that RTFA was TIMOTHY of all people.

I've already duct tapes all windows and doors in my apartment.

Re:YASUOM

[Peyna]

I tried "1 speeding bullet to mph" on Google, but it wasn't able to do the conversion. They really need to update that.