[GNUz] You want to know why Au have better boradband than nz...

[Rik Tindall]

Don Gould wrote:
>>
>> have also been reading up on 802.11n
>>
> Haven't looked at it... link?

Trawled through pages of Google finds b4 moving on. 'Not quite ready 
yet' was the common theme to lots of product reviews: 'Watch this space'..

>> so then we'd be needing to find project collaborators within c1km from 
>> home, and then bunny hop all around the town?
>>
> Yes
> 
>> - maybe it's going to become real easy before long, for c$200 invested.
> 
> That was exactly my point at the last clug meeting... if as a group of 
> 40 we got off our collective arse and did something then we'd make a 
> huge dent really fast now that the technology is so cheap...  you could 
> count your investment as less than $100 if usb stuff.
> 
> Problem is that I can't see the clug group or anyone else getting 
> interested enough to do it... can you?

Not yet. We're all occupied with our own individual focii. But as we 
keep wireless going as a developing meeting theme, interest is steadily 
gathering. The starting point is getting a 1/2 doz committed to working 
on the same thing i reckon. Have to wait & see a bit yet..

> I'm going to start playing with some other usb antenna this week.

good luck, & c ya @Sydenham
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Rik