Re: (slightly) offtopic- radio modems

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:04:32AM +0100, Tim Hurman wrote:
> If you have line of sight and not many trees/radation absorbing materials
> in the way, you may be able to use wavelan (IEEE 802.11). You would
> probably need a directional aerial though. If you can get them, Lucent
> technology's gold cards are very nice, and they support a 128 bit (IIRC)
> encryption keys.
> 

at a distance of 500-1000m I think a wavelan card is out, unless you did 
something the equivelent of putting repeaters inbetween, but this a seriously
long distance. Like I said get enough base stations, and you might be able to
bridge the distance.

//Matt