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HR4BTC aka HamRadio4Bitcoin 4 months ago
You’ve Never Seen Wi-Fi Go This Far By Data Slayer “Most people think Wi-Fi stops after a few hundred feet—but this $5 Wi-Fi HaLow board proves otherwise. In this video, I live stream from a quarter mile away and run real-world tests through concrete, stairs, and long distances to see if it truly delivers. Spoiler: It’s open-source, low-power, and could be the future of off-grid connectivity.” #wifi #radio #seeedstudio #HaLow #hamradio #amateurradio

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CensorThis thisistheend@nostriches.net 4 months ago
Ok. So 5 miles out and you can txt. 1/2 a mile out, maybe some video or high latency gaming? Did you run 20 of these as once to see if there’s congestion?
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shortwavesurfer2009 4 months ago
Exactly, he had another video here recently about reverse engineering a $20,000 military mesh IP network and he talked about doing things like push to talk with mumble over that kind of connection and streaming YouTube from his car a mile away.
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shortwavesurfer2009 4 months ago
It's the link to the note about him doing reverse engineering of a $20,000 military IP network for $106 and watching YouTube from a mile away from his car.
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shortwavesurfer2009 4 months ago
On normal sites, you're right. On YouTube, though, you have to, because after the question mark is the video URL part. I do strip off everything after the question mark for other sites though.
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shortwavesurfer2009 4 months ago
Not a problem. Have a look at the end of the YouTube URL, for example. .com/watch?v=ofR7GFNZzJY If you killed the ? And everything after it would just be .com/watch with no video
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SwapMarket swapmarket@iris.to 4 months ago
That's because of the water reflecting the radio signal. Many years ago I used to steal wifi from an aparthotel10km away across the bay. Both the aparthotel and my house were high above sea level. Only when the sea was rough I was losing the signal.
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