{"id":275,"date":"2005-08-02T04:22:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T04:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=275"},"modified":"2005-08-02T04:22:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T04:22:03","slug":"interstate_wi-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Interstate Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To win a contest at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defcon.org\/\">DefCon 13<\/a>, a team of geeks established an unamplified <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wi-Fi\">Wi-Fi<\/a> connection over a distance of <a href=\"http:\/\/wifi-toys.com\/wi-fi.php?a=articles&#038;id=91\">125 miles<\/a>, beating their previous record of 55 miles. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wifiworldrecord.com\/team.html\">Team PAD<\/a> did it by connecting their 300mw Wi-Fi cards to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wifiworldrecord.com\/2005writeup.html\">satellite dishes<\/a>: one computer (outside Las Vegas) used a 12-foot dish, and the other (on a mountaintop in Utah) used a 10-foot dish.  (I first heard of this amazing feat on the <a href=\"http:\/\/thisweekintech.com\/\">This Week in Tech<\/a> podcast.)<br \/>\nIt is probably not a coincidence that all four members of Team PAD are ham radio operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To win a contest at DefCon 13, a team of geeks established an unamplified Wi-Fi connection over a distance of 125 miles.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}