| > This are however just records. E.g. "I still have a connection". This chatter about a successful 2005 Defcon shootout [0] indicates that a 125 mile link was able to pass traffic sufficiently reliably to be used for SSH, VNC, and other applications summarized as "etc" for several hours. The one that somat appears to be thinking about was the year before and set up a ~55 mile link. The Wired article about it [1] doesn't say much about what data was shoved over the link, just that they "...shot a signal from one station to the second station with an encrypted message provided by the judges.", suggesting that at least some data transfer was required to consider the attempt valid. > Just mounting a maneuvering 3 m dish to your laptop isn't everyones most desired leisure ... That would have to be a very fancy dish to handle targeting a spot 1.5Km+ away while attached to a device that's being manhandled. I imagine it'd make much more sense to put the dish on a fixed mount and wire it up to the laptop, run wired ethernet from the AP to the laptop, or have a second radio in an AP to provide service to nearby clients. [0] <https://groups.google.com/g/SOCALWUG/c/5T5wekafdv8> [1] <https://defcon.org/html/links/dc_press/archives/12/wired_wif...> |