At 9:36 AM -0400 on 5/27/00, Jon Malis wrote:
- It has no way to add extenal antennas to boost signal.
You can, it just requires making a small "incision" in its side and a
voided warranty. (See: http://www.macintouch.com/airportantenna.html
For More Info)
This echoes our experiences at the Financial Cryptography conference this
February <http://fc00.ai/> on Anguilla, which, at the moment, is crawling
with WaveLANs...
So, here we were, on a 50-foot catamaran off Prickly Pear Key, 15 people on
the boat drinking cocktails, snorkelling, various half-dressed attractive
people taking in the sun, etc., meanwhile, halfway up the flag lanyard
there's an antenna, and at the end of that antenna is my Mac Powerbook with
a WaveLan, using IP NetRouter wired to an Apple Airport Basestation with a
hub on it, and 5 or 6 geeks down below plugged into the hub, going, "Kewl.
We can get Slashdot out here". Coulda left the Base Station out of it,
frankly, as nobody else had a WaveLan card but me...
Cheers,
RAH
Who was afraid to take power tools to the plastic inside one of his base
stations, but has now changed his mind...
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