Defcon's Wi-Fi shootout produces unusually shaped winner: At the annual hacker conference, Defcon -- that's hacker like "people who hack together cool stuff" (mostly) not hacker as in cracker -- a long-distance Wi-Fi shootout resulted in an interesting winner. The folks threw together an interesting idea at the last minute and spanned over 35 miles! A Vivato reseller was in the mix and hit under 6 miles in the sere, wet, hot, dangerous desert landscape.
FYI: The winner used enhanced power (I didn't catch how much, but looks like probably not street legal ;-) It seemed like the first place for non-amplified stock equipment was "4DI" with only 10.1625 miles, seems a little short.
Simon
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We were the Vivato guys. Unfortunately, due to a 2 hour traffic jam and rain delay the first day, we went out past 5 miles before it got dark. By then, we had been in the rain for 3 hours and since it was a lot of work carrying stuff up and down the side of a wet hill, we shut down. The second day, we lost a team member due to a personal injury so we didn't get to continue our testing as we had hoped. Oh well, the best team that day won.