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We had a laser link to the university 20 years ago. 10MBit/s for 300 people. That thing was awful.. lol. The link was dead during - Heavy rain - Fog in the
by NoiseBert69 1y ago
We had a laser link to the university 20 years ago. 10MBit/s for 300 people.
That thing was awful.. lol.
The link was dead during
- Heavy rain
- Fog in the early morning
- While snowing for days
- Pigeons building a nest within the optics
- chasil 1y agoThere are many long-range WiFi solutions. I wonder how these would have performed as alternatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_Wi-Fi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_Wi-Fi
- NoiseBert69 1y agoNowadays you just can buy pair of cheap Mikrotik oder Ubiquiti directional dishes. Back then this was rocket science.
- beAbU 1y agoGoogle "pringles cantenna" to get an idea of what state-of-the-art long range wi-fi gear was like in 2005...
- chasil 1y agoYes, these were Yagi antennas. EBay has many models.