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

[Henning Rogge]

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:
>> 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/


Exactly... I was more worried about "curving of Earth" than about power.

Henning Rogge
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