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Can't you just switch on the Wifi-hotspot on your iPhone and connect together that way?
by wangman 12y ago
Can't you just switch on the Wifi-hotspot on your iPhone and connect together that way?
- niels_olson 12y agoPower dissipates with r squared and interference is always an issue. So if I set one of these on top of a refrigerator in the middle of the lab, I could probably hit most of the resident offices and some of the staff. But most of the residents couldn't get to each other with just their iphones.
- gcb0 12y agoyou just moved things around. if my phone is then closer to other people while this device is on another floor, they would have better acces on my phone wifi. unless this evolves to a mesh it is just a hyped AP
- niels_olson 12y ago> while this device is on another floor Where did another floor come in?
- gcb0 12y agosame place where "top of a refrigerator" in your post. just moving stuff around as well.
- gcb0 12y agoyep. this is a solution looking for a problem i think. my router already does all that. and it was before i flashed openwrt on it.
- niels_olson 12y agoSo does mine. My thought before this PirateBox thing was to just plug an old router in, yeah, maybe flash it to openwrt. If anything, this gives me a reason to pause and think harder about what some of the issues are that they may have thought of but I haven't.