From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 01:44:55 MDT
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Reason wrote:
> WiFi is a marketing/branding term, so probably. I imagine they'll call
> it WiFi 2 or WiFi NT or WiFi Plus or something. Current WiFi stuff can
> go out to 12 km if you're prepared to spring for a large base station,
It's not the size, it's the antenna. Anything beyond 100 mW EIRP is
illegal, at least in the EU. 12 km is direct line of sight, typically over
water.
> but I'd expect the first 54Mb/s architecture to be your standard 300m
> range.
I don't know what the atmospheric transmissibility is at 5 GHz, but I
don't think the range will be much lower with directional aerials.
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