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

Gui Iribarren gui at altermundi.net
Sat Oct 20 17:38:57 CEST 2012


On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/20/2012 02:29 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen
>> <paul at servalproject.org> wrote:
>>> WiFi long-shots from USA->Alaska->Russia->Europe should be possible?
>>
>> Only with really high towers or a relay station on the island in the
>> Bering Strait.
>> (its nearly 100 km of water if you don't have a relay on the island)
>
> 125 miles/200km with 300mW wifi:
>
> http://boingboing.net/2005/07/31/defcon-wifi-shootout.html

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/



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