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Originally Posted by JohanSWE  Why use a mode? its like 10years old, and have limited range etc. is there some hidden bonus in it i missed out on?
<Interjection> Well, "10years old" ?? I rather doubt it is "so long in the tooth" - When I got my first - disastrously short lifed - NON-Wireless Linksys, I had no idea of anything pertainly to a non-wired connection - and my purchase of a $1300 wired router showed that too.
Added to which, I'd been reading many North American computer magz for many years, and I'd have picked up on "a" mode if it had been written about for general public use.
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Im kinda eager to hear more about Y-mode, with 5000m range :P not that i need it, i would gain more from N mode with the higher transfer at 245mb compared to 50 for Y-mode, but would be nice to be able to use wifi in the park outside where i live etc. |
Me, I'm - sort of - interested in "a" mode for two reasons :
1) 'Cos it's "out there"
2) My family's Lenovo T60p computers are able to use a/b/g modes, & "a" is the only mode that we haven't been able to try out for efficacy !
As for computing in your local park, well I suppose you could purchase a "FON" Access Point and connect it to a port on your router & that'll radiate TWO signals (on one channel) - so if you placed it in a window overlooking the park - you might be able to hook up with one or other of the wireless signals -- Or add a "Fontenna" aerial for more directed signal.
The "beauty" of the FON system is - become a user/signal provider, and then you can use the FON signals of other users in various parts of the world - for free.
It seems to be a great idea - but I haven't done any travelling in the last year, so I can't check it out. [Though I have found several "FON" Wi-Fi points whilst travelling around HK (using my Wi-Fi sniffer)].
Certainly a free connection beats a TEN Euro charge for 2 hours of Internet that a Paris hotel would have charged me 18 months ago if I hadn't held their affinity card.
There was a recent report in the SCMP about (I think they were referring to WiMAX) having a range of up to 48 Kilometres !
All well and good I say - but how many watts of UHF-RF energy would have to come out of your Laptop to make a TWO-WAY connection at 48 KMs?
...And, how many minutes would your laptop's battery survive such a "caning" - & how overheated would the Laptop become?
"Smoke Signals" anyone ??
