How many times have you arrived at a hotel and found that your room is just beyond the reach of the hotel’s wireless network? It’s happened to me quite a bit, and since the room tends to only have one ethernet jack, sharing with a second laptop becomes inconvenient. How about this solution? Plug the [...]
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When you have a wireless network and computers without wireless capabilities, one option is to use an Access Point in Client mode. The access point becomes a client to the main wireless access point (sometimes referred to as a wireless bridge). Example: There is an existing wireless network in place in a warehouse. Across the [...]
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Do balloons sound like a feasible solution for the infrastructure of a wireless network? I don’t think so, but a company called Space Data is trying exactly that — sending up many transceiver-equipped balloons every day, in order to create a large-scale wireless network. While the balloons are cheap and disposable at $50 a pop, [...]
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