[Battlemesh] International links between Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia

Mitar mitar at tnode.com
Sat Oct 20 16:38:56 UTC 2012


Hi!

> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Gui Iribarren <gui at altermundi.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>> Ermanno Pietrosemoli et al [0] actually did a ~400km link on 2.4ghz,
>> but those distances (including the defcon wifi shootout), are only
>> possible because of the heights provided by generous mountains.
>>
>> [0]: https://interred.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/ermanno-pietrosemoli-has-set-a-new-record-for-the-longest-communication-wi-fi-link/
> 
> Exactly... I was more worried about "curving of Earth" than about power.

The NBP protocol mentioned before does not require line-of-sight.

We are so used to WiFi that we might think that all communications
require line-of-sight. This is not true. :-)


Mitar


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